Assessment Two

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For this task, you need to write an essay of 1200 words, supported appropriately by recent, scholarly literature. In the essay you need to: • Section A: o Define the terms “health” and “assessment” and write a paragraph in which you clearly describe “health assessment” in the context of nursing. o Discuss the importance of health assessment in planning and delivering holistic care and give an example of how a nurse would do this. • Section B: o Discuss the purpose of a health assessment from a nursing perspective with reference to a framework such as the Nursing Process or the Clinical Reasoning Cycle. • Section C: o In this section, the process of taking a health assessment is the focus. The two main components of a health assessment are the patient history and the physical examination. Discuss how a health assessment would need to be tailored to the individual patient in 2 (two) of the scenarios below. For each of the 2 (two) chosen scenarios, also identify 4 (four) different aspects of health assessment, including features of the setting, as well as developmental, age-specific information, cultural and/or lifespan factors that may impact the interaction between a nurse and patient.

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