comprehensive versus focused assessment.
What You Will Learn
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Discussion post for this week, please take the following descriptive information and place it with the appropriate categories listed. Based on the descriptive information would this be a focused or comprehensive assessment and if focused what system or systems would you want to assess and why?
Descriptions
- Presents with c/o headache
- Pain is a ‘4’ on a scale of 1-10
- Scoliosis corrected with Charleston brace, broken toe
- No cold/sinus symptoms
- Eye exam 2 years ago
- No medications, NKDA
- No hospitalizations
- No tobacco use, wine once monthly, no recreational drug use
- Single, lives alone
- Traveled to UK, Caribbean in past 3 months
- Throbbing for past 2 hours, can feel pulse in temple
- Sports-induced asthma
- No fever, no changes in vision
Categories
- Chief Complaint
- History of Present Illness
- Past Medical History
- Personal and Social History
- Review of Symptoms