Comprehensive Health Nursing Assessment

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A complete assessment is not necessarily carried out each time. A comprehensive assessment is part of a health screening examination. According to Zambas (2010), physical assessment is taking an educated, systematic look at all aspects of an individual’s health status utilizing knowledge, skills, and tools of health history and physical exam. Patient physical assessment is one of the most important nursing interventions. This is the moment a nurse would be able to identify all the negative issues, to collect the data (objective and subjective). According to Jarvis (2016), a physical assessment is to collect the data about the individual’s health state. From the data collected and the findings, a health care provider will be able to develop

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