A nursing instructor asked his nursing students to discuss their experiences with charting assessment data. Which comment by the student indicates the need for further teaching?
1) I find it difficult to avoid using phrases like the patient tolerated the procedure well.'
2) It's confusing to have to remember which abbreviations this hospital allows.
3) I need to work on charting assessments and interventions right after they are done.
4) My patient was really quiet and didn't say much, so I charted that he acted depressed.
Question 2
Which of the following questions would be effective for obtaining information from a patient? Choose all that apply.
1) How did this happen to you?
2) What was your first symptom?
3) Why didn't you seek health care earlier?
4) When did you start having symptoms?
Physical assessment is one component of the nursing database
Five step nursing process
Nursing diagnosis impact on nursing practice
Nursing hand offs
Nursing Student life
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