CHILD CARE ASSESSMENT 2022

Running head: CHILD CARE ASSESSMENT
CHILD CARE ASSESSMENT
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Assessment component Rationale/s
Assessment approach and
communication:
1. Observe the child carefully prior to
any physical examination.
2. Try to get familiar with the child
before undertaking vital signs.
3. Communicate with the child’s
parents about the condition and
medical history.
4. Assess the following signs in the
child: physical appearance,
conscious level, and way of
interaction, sleepiness and sign of
agitation or restlessness.
5. Precaution of placing the child in
calm atmosphere need to be taken
for assessing.
1. According to Sampson, (2017) for
childcare it is important to observe
the child as lethargic or inactive
behaviour in child give information
about connected illness. For
example, runny nose or cough is
indicative to flu infection.
2. It will help assessing the child in
easy manner. By getting familiar,
nurse will get to know about the
child and examine the body
symptoms.
3. Parents gives all the required
information of the child health
condition related to history of child
delivery for example whether the
delivery was normal or was it
premature birth. Such information
helps the health care professional to
predict root cause of illness.
(Nilsson et al., 2015).
4. The physical sign give idea about

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the level of infection and prevailing
condition.
5. Child with ill condition often tends
to be irritated or may become less
interactive with the surrounding.
Such sign are indicative to some
health issue like flu or respiratory
issue. Hence, disturbing the child
may make them uncontrollable
(Arvidsson et al., 2016).

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Components of physical
assessment:
1. Consider the appearance of the
child for observing: lethargic or
active, agitated or calm, tone is poor
or normal, movement and posture
of the child.
2. Take the following vital signs of the
child: respiratory rate, tracheal tug,
nostril flaring, depth of breathing
and check inspiratory noise and
level of oxygen saturation.
3. Monitor the heart rate and check for
cyanosis and capillary refills.
4. Monitor the body temperature of
the child
1. It is known that reviewing the child
for physical appearance give
information of the health status and
indication for some sort of infection
(de Schipper, Lieberman & Moody,
2017).
2. It is important to take vital sign as
children easily develop respiratory
issue, which can also affect the
heart and lead to cardiovascular
complication. The major reason
behind it is low immune system and
anatomical structure of respiratory
system. They have soft compliant
chest wall and ribs are horizontally
placed with poor develop intercostal
muscle. They easily catch infection
than adult as they have well
developed intercostal muscle and
protected by three layer of chest.
So, foreign particle cannot easily
enter the body through air.
Therefore, they develop respiratory