Context of Nursing Health Assessment 2022

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Health Assessment
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SECTION A
The health of a person is a crucial thing and everybody needs good health. However, a human
being cannot live his entire life without having health problems at any given time. This is the
reason why medical diagnosis and treatments are also necessary in order to identify and alleviate
the pain resulting from sicknesses. The well-being of an individual is determined by his or her
health status. It is important to note that it is due to emergence of diseases that health centres and
hospitals have been constructed.
Health refers to the ability of an individual to manage social and psychological and
challenges throughout life (Thompson, Harbour & Macpherson, 2018). Health, therefore, refers
to the complete mental, physical and social wellbeing of an individual.
Assessment refers to an instance or a condition of making a judgment about something or
someone. Health assessment refers to plan or well laid down strategies on how to care for a
client. It would include identifying the critical and specific needs of a client and how the needs
will be addressed by the registered nurses and a health care system.
Health assessment is very important and it marks the foundation and basis for the treatment of
clients (Runeson et al., 2017).
Health assessment in the context of nursing is a credible tool used by nurses to obtain
descriptions about patients’ symptoms, obtain information on how the symptoms developed and
to develop an appropriate differential diagnosis for the clients (Lysdahl et al., 2017). Health
assessment process would incorporate the principles of data collection which refers to obtaining
information about client’s diseases and the history of the diseases. Data documentation implies
that the nurses write down the history of the disease that the client is suffering from. Evaluation
of the client’s health status involves the client being diagnosed and practical assessment carried

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out by the nurse about the client's condition. Responses to the health problems and interventions
on appropriate curative measure should be devised and implemented by the nurse (Bennekou,
2019).
Holistic health care is a form of healing that considers the whole person's body, mind,
spirit, and emotions. It includes all forms of health care to treat a patient. It incorporates
complementary therapies. The key domains that make up holistic health include; physical,
emotional, social, spiritual and intellectual wellness. Holistic health care is proposed to be the
most curative care because it does not only focus on the alleviating disease but to fix the causes
of disease.
Principles of holistic care requires that all persons should have inborn healing powers and the
inborn ability for personal healing (Arab-Zozani, 2019). This is evident when one heals his or
her emotions, the mind, physically and spiritually. It is person-centered and relationship-based;
the doctors work with the patients and their families to help them heal. Healing takes a team
approach which involves doctors addressing all aspects of life using a variety of health care
approaches. A doctor uses a wide range of therapeutic modalities to support the healing process
of patients.
Treatment involves fixing the causes of conditions and not just alleviating the conditions.
The purpose of health assessment from nursing perspective includes helping to identify the
medical needs of a patient. Health assessment would assist the nurse to obtain the health
condition of a client at the first time and for the one who is already on engagement (Kolasa,
Dziomdziora & Fajutrao, 2016). According to professional standards, a nurse should think
critically and analyze the nursing situation accordingly. It helps in obtaining the health history of
a client. Health assessment would help a nurse to gather subjective data from a particular patient