Development And Importance of Health Needs assessment

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Case Study
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Health assessment is a method of giving specific planned care to a particular patient. The
plan also classifies the exact need of a patient and how health care professionals can discourse
those requirements. A process of physical examination, as well as taking a brief history of patient
health, is done to evaluate and identify the condition (Potter et al., 2016). There are various
components of physical health assessments that are usually considered in planning the routine of
care towards any patient. These physical components are checkup, auscultation, percussion and
palpation. It is one of the most critical aspects of nursing care and practice because it improves
the quality of care and intervention for any patient by identifying their strengths and weakness
(Lanceley, 2017). The primary purpose of the below paper is to identify a patient’s condition
based upon a case study and to provide correct solutions and interventions.
Body Mass Index or BMI is a measurement of an individual’s weight to their height. This
index broadly categories patient as underweight, standard weight and obese depending upon the
fat, muscle and bones (Nuttal, 2015). The body comprises of fats, especially triglycerides, also
known as adipose that are stored in different areas of the body like intramuscular, intra-
abdominal and subcutaneous which are usually difficult to measure. This process is useful in the
estimation of body fat. The case given case the candidates weight is 210lb and height is 5’6”.
The standard formula for estimation of BMI is weight divided by height. The person BMI is
210lb/5’6”, which are 33.9kg/m2. The body index classification the person as obesity class I.
The normal range lies between 18.5kg/m2 to 24.9kg/m2 (Bickley, 2017). Waist circumference
also needs to be measured for this case as many complications may arise due to obese condition
in the patient like hypertension, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.
Nutritional assessment is a process of identifying the correct dietary status of the body,
and it helps in promoting better health of a patient and helps in preventing as well as treating

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chronic diseases of the body. It is one of the critical aspects in nursing practice because it helps
in the planning of proper diet and health programs for curing any patient and to promote better
health condition (Burman et al., 2015). In this case, the screening tool that can be used to assess
the nutritional status of the person is the Mini Nutritional Assessment or MNA (Bickley, 2017).
It is an important screening tool used in the identification of the nutritional status of an older
adult. The assessment is based on a few questions which provide complete knowledge about the
nutritional status of any individual. The screening questions comprises information about the
food intake in the last few months, condition of weight, mobility, psychological stress, the BMI
and neuropsychological problems. The assessment is judged upon a scoring system which
indicates the current state of the body. Other tools that can be used in the evaluation are
Subjective Global Assessment; it comprises of patients history, food intake, weight as well as
clinical symptoms present in the body (Fink et al., 2015). The useful screening tool for the case
will be Mini Nutritional assessment as the person is an elderly one, and the BMI indicates the
obese condition. This will be helpful in taking the correct diet for the patient.
The person, in this case, is active with all daily activities and does not have a restricted
movement body. The screening tool that can be used to know about the exercise and physical
knowledge of the body are pedometers or accelerometers and International Physical Activity
Questionnaires (Shook et al., 2016). The questionnaires aim to deliver health and physical
activity data. The pedometers can be used for this purpose because it will help to tie distance in
footsteps with the burned calories (Bickley, 2017). The person here is suffering from obesity and
needs daily exercise to lose weight. This tool will improve the health care professionals to have
knowledge about physical activity and exercise and to plan the diet as well.