Health Assessment for Patients: Case Studies and Treatment

Running head: HEALH ASSESSMENT
HEALTH ASSESSMENT
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1HEALTH ASSESSMENT
The health assessment is a care plan identifies the specific needs of a person and also identifies
about how those needs will be addressed by the system of the healthcare or the nursing facilities.
The assignment is dealing with the health assessments of the patients of two case studies
Case study 1
The patient of this case study is an old man of 76 years of age who used to reside in an aged care
facility. According to his medical checkup he was suffering from hearing deficits, osteoporosis
and constipation. The nurse should do the pure- tone threshold audiometry to assess the hearing
deficits. The hearing sensitivity is measured in each of the ear for pure-tone signals. These
signals are single frequency tones which are generated electronically and are transduced through
the ear phone or bone conduction vibrator (Ohlenforst et al., 2017). The patient had been
suffering from osteoporosis so bone density scan should be done to diagnose osteoporosis.
Osteoporosis is an age specific disease and people above 35 years of age mostly suffer from this
disease. The nurses could prescribe medicines like bisphosphonates, calcitonin, hormone
therapy, and rank ligand inhibitor, analog of parathyroid hormone and estrogen receptors
modulators. The third assessment that should be done are the MRI of the spine which are done
for detecting the underlying disease of the vertebral fractures like cancer, and for assessing
whether the fractures are new or old (Effendy, Ibrahim, Mohamed & Shuid, 2015). For assessing
constipation, it is necessary to examine the rectum and the entire colon (colonoscopy). In this
procedure, the entire colon is examined with a flexible camera equipped tube (Lacy et al., 2015).
Case study 2
The patient of this case study was a 48 years old female who was recently diagnosed with high
blood pressure. The patient is a single mother of two teenagers. The main cause of high blood