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Lecture 1

- Health Promotion & Disease Prevention


- Primary prevention
- Promote optimum health prior to illness onset
- Immunizations, healthy lifestyle, diet, exercise
- Secondary prevention
- Early identification & treatment of existing health problems
- PAP smear, mammogram, PPD, colonoscopy
- Tertiary prevention
- Rehab & resortation of health
- Cardiac rehab, after traumatic health event
- Assessment
- Subjective: symptoms; pt statements
- Objective: signs - what nurse can observe/assess throughout exam
- Inspection, palpation, percussion, auscultation, lab & diagnostic tests, pt
medical records
- Nursing process
- ADPIE
- Types of data
- Complete: health history & physical exam; 1st appt in primary care or hospital
admission
- Episodic: mini data base concerning one problem; acute illness
- Follow-up: to assess progress
- Emergency: rapid & focused data collection; chest pain (does pt have h/o heart
trouble, MI, PUD, hiatal hernia?)
- Interviews
- Allow for subjective data collection
- Assists pt in identifying areas of cencern & perceptinos of health status
- Identifies pt’s problems/strengths
- Establishes rapport & trust for an ongoing working relationship
- Provides a comfortable bridge to physical examination
- Provides an opportunity for education
- Terms of the interview
- Purpose: why is pt here
- Time: set time limits
- Presence of others: other care givers, family, friends, translator
- Affects communication, positive or negative effects (abuse, information
acquisition, confidentiality)
- Confidentiality
- Communication is verbal & non-verbal and two-way
- Factors affecting the interview
- Internal factors (personal bias)
- Acceptance of others
- Empathy
- Active listening
- Self-awareness
- External factors
- Environment
- Professional dress
- Ensure physical or psychological privacy
- Avoid interruptions
- Challenges of note taking
- Impedes eye contact
- Attention shifting
- Interrupts pt’s narrative flow
- Impedes observation of nonverbal behavior
- Can be threatening
- Makes pt feel unheard and you seem robotc/stand-offish
- Beginning of the interview
- Introduction, explain your role
- Address pt by surname, unless otherwise permissions
- Open ended questions then close ended questions
- Communication techniques
- Facilitation
- Silence
- Empathy
- Clarification
- Confrontation
- Interpretation
- Explanation
- Summary
- Avoid
- False assurance
- Giving advice
- Using authority
- Avoiding difficult topics
- Engaging in distancing
- Using professional jargon
- Using leading/biased questions
- Talking too much
- Interrupting
- Asking why

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