Nursing Health Assessment: Mr. A's Case Study

Nursing Health Assessment

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Describe the detail history and physical examination data that should be obtained from Mr. A
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Discuss the psychosocial factors that may affect his adherence to pharmacologic and non
pharmacologic interventions.......................................................................................................3
Exemplify an appropriate patient education to increase his awareness and enhance adherence
to his care plan............................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Nursing health assessment refers to conduct required clinical procedures to gather patient
information to understand physiological, psychological sociological and spiritual condition. It
includes the criterion of conducting diagnosing activities including physical examination and
several lab tests to evaluate actual heath problems of an individual with its cause (Andrea and
Kotowski, 2017). However, it is essential to conduct appropriate diagnosing procedures and
clinical examination as it facilitate to provide accurate treatment for patient well-being. The
present report is based on the case study of patient named Mr. A having age of 50 years with
obese condition and persistent elevated blood pressure. This assignment will focus on detailed
history and physical examination data that should be obtained form the given patient. It will also
includes psychosocial factors that may affect their adherence to pharmacologic and non
pharmacologic interventions. The exemplification of patient education to increase his awareness
and enhance adherence to care plan is given below.
MAIN BODY
Describe the detail history and physical examination data that should be obtained from Mr. A
Nursing health assessment can be described various kinds of diagnosing procedures
which helps to identify the about specific health problem and its relevant causes. It is necessary
to understand about symptoms observed in patients along with their causes which helps care
practitioners to make appropriate decision of treatment. Basically, nursing assessment is
favourable to make an effective as well as efficient care plan in order deliver better quality of
treatment for wellness of patient (Bartlett, Taylor and Nelson, 2016). However, it consist
physical examination of patient suitable to to gather information about visible and non visible
symptoms to understand the medical condition of patient to provide initial treatment for making
an individual feel relieved.
According to the case of Mr. A, he is suffering from a condition of being obese with
elevated high blood pressure. His age is 50 years and having problem of hypertension from last 7
months for which he consult with a physician and use the lifestyle management technique to
overcome with his health problems. However, lifestyle management did not work with patient
and his blood pressure continued to rise which is not a good sign regarding health. It has been
analysed that he was began on a regimen of antihypertensive medication since one month. Now
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