HEALTH HISTORY

M1 A2 DB: HEALTH HISTORY

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Overview

Think about a recent patient that you have provided nursing care. How can the health history relate to clinical prevention for that specific patient? How can you as the nurse advocate for your patient to receive effective, efficient, cost-effective and equitable care?

****Use PAT or PACU as reference

Your initial post must be posted before you can view and respond to colleagues, must contain minimum of two (2) references, in addition to examples from your personal experiences to augment the topic. The goal is to make your post interesting and engaging so others will want to read/respond to it. Synthesize and summarize from your resources in order to avoid the use of direct quotes, which can often be dry and boring. No direct quotes are allowed in the discussion board posts.

Post a thoughtful response to at least two (2) other colleagues’ initial postings. Responses to colleagues should be supportive and helpful (examples of an acceptable comment are: “This is interesting – in my practice, we treated or resolved (diagnosis or issue) with (x, y, z meds, theory, management principle) and according to the literature…” and add supportive reference. Avoid comments such as “I agree” or “good comment.”

Points: 30

Due Dates:

• Initial Post: Fri, Apr 2 by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) of the US.
• Response Post: Sun, Apr 4 by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) of the US – (the response posts cannot be done on the same day as the initial post).

References:

• Initial Post: Minimum of two (2) total references: one (1) from required course materials and one (1) from peer-reviewed references.
• Response posts: Minimum of one (1) total reference: one (1) from peer-reviewed or course materials reference per response.

Words Limits

• Initial Post: Minimum 200 words excluding references (approximately one (1) page)
• Response posts: Minimum 100 words excluding references.

SAMPLE SOLUTION

Patient health history is gathered through open-ended questioning and active listening. This is important as it elicits critical clues as to the patient’s diagnosis. This paper considers a patient I recently provided nursing care and describes how health history is related to clinical; prevention for the patient. Besides, it describes how as a nurse, I can advocate for a patient to receive effective, efficient, cost-effective, and equitable care.
Patient Health History
Patient history provides subjective and objective information from patients or their families to enable the care teams and the patients to collaboratively formulate plans for health promotion, to deal with acute health problems, or reduce chronic health conditions (Jarvis, 2020). Recently I attended to a patient who was suffering from a urinary tract infection. The patient had been discharged from the hospital one week…