Discussion:

Effective communication is vital to constructing an accurate and detailed patient history. A patient’s health or illness is influenced by many factors, including age, gender, ethnicity, and environmental setting. As an advanced practice nurse, you must be aware of these factors and tailor your communication techniques accordingly. Doing so will not only help you establish rapport with your patients, but it will also enable you to more effectively gather the information needed to assess your patients’ health risks.

For this Discussion, you will take on the role of a clinician who is building a health history for a particular new patient:

 Patient info:

19 year old black male athlete on scholarship with muscle pain

 

 

 

Week 1 Case study

 

• How would your communication and interview techniques for building a health history differ with each patient?
• How might you target your questions for building a health history based on the patient’s social determinants of health?
• What risk assessment instruments would be appropriate to use with each patient, or what questions would you ask each patient to assess his or her health risks?
• Identify any potential health-related risks based upon the patient’s age, gender, ethnicity, or environmental setting that should be taken into consideration.
• Select one of the risk assessment instruments presented in Chapter 1 or Chapter 5 of the Seidel’s Guide to Physical Examination text, or another tool with which you are familiar, related to your selected patient.
• Develop at least five targeted questions you would ask your selected patient to assess his or her health risks and begin building a health history.

 Required 3 Resources  and must be evidenced based/ peer reviewed:

Peer Reviewed journal articles that reflect and discuss the results of a research study 

Examples of Peer-Reviewed Journals include: 

-American Family Physician 
-American Academy of Family Practice 
-American Thoracic Society 
-National Heart/Lung and Blood Institute (Clinicians tab, not patient tab) 
-American Academy of Dermatology..

 

 The following are examples (not all inclusive) of resources/websites deemed inadmissible for scholarly reference:

1         Up to Date (must use original articles from Up to Date as a resource)

2.       Wikipedia

3.       Cdc.gov- non healthcare professionals section

4.       Webmd.com (This will make Dr. Schiller crazy!)

5.       Mayoclinic.com

6.       Babyzone.com

7.       

8.    Huffington Post

9. Healthline.com

10. Medical News Today.com

Let me know if you have any questions!