Head-to-Toe Assessment

For this assignment, perform a complete head-to-toe assessment on one of your chosen participants. Your analysis should include the following:

• Topical headings to delineate systems.
• For any system for which you do not have equipment, explain how you would do the assessment.
• Detailed review of each system with normal and abnormal findings, along with normal laboratory findings for client age.
• An analysis of age-specific risk reduction, health screen, and immunizations.
• Your expectation of normal findings and what might indicate abnormal findings in your review of systems.
• The differential diagnosis (disease) associated with possible abnormal findings.
• A plan of care (including nursing diagnosis, interventions, evaluation).
• Client and age-appropriate evidenced based practice strategies for health promotion.
• Pharmacological treatments that can be used to address health issues for this client.

Provide your answers in a 6- to 7-page Microsoft Word document.

Support your responses with examples.

Cite any sources in APA format.

Submission Details

Name your document SU_NSG3012_W4_A2_LastName_FirstInitial.doc.

Incorporate topical heading to delineate systems =

o    Perform a full head to toe patient assessment.  Ensure the proper identification within your paper of each system you are assessing. For example: Cardiac- than describe your cardiac assessment of your patient, Respiratory- than describe your respiratory assessment of your patient, etc.

o    For any system for which you do not have equipment, explain how you would perform the assessment =

o    Explain how you as a healthcare provider, would conduct a physical assessment without medical equipment. For example, palpation techniques.

o    Provided a detailed review of each system with normal and abnormal findings and included normal laboratory findings for client age=

o    Provide a detailed patient physical assessment for each major system (cardiac, respiratory, etc.), within a patient SOAP note, ensuring to provide both normal and abnormal patient assessment findings along with appropriate laboratory data.

o    Analyzed and explained age specific risk reduction health screen and immunizations =

o    Explain the age specific risk (the elderly and pediatric populations) to consider during the health screen and the possible needed immunizations. 

o    Provided expectations of normal findings and indicated abnormal findings in your patients review of systems =

o    Create a full review of each system for a patient, head to toe assessment. Ensure to explain the normal findings, as well as possible abnormal findings in some areas. The abnormal findings will assist you to form appropriate nursing diagnosis and interventions.

o    Analyzed and described the differential diagnosis (disease) associated with possible abnormal findings =

o    What are possible differential diagnosis (diseases) for your patient related to the health assessment.

o    Designed a plan of care including nursing diagnosis, interventions, evaluation =

o    Pick one or two main nursing diagnoses (NANDA approved) for your patient (s) based on your assessment findings. The formation of the nursing diagnosis must be: The nursing diagnosis related to (state the main reason the patient falls into this nursing diagnosis) as evidence by (states patient signs and symptoms that support the nursing diagnosis chosen.) For example: “Acute pain R/T bleeding along urinary tract AEB patient reports of pain 10 out of 10.

o    Client and age-appropriate evidenced based practice strategies for health promotion

o    Pharmacological treatments that can be used to address health issues for this client

o    Written components =

o    Ensure proper APA format. If you need assistance with APA format, please visit the “Academic Resources” section within the classroom, here you will find numerous sources to ensure academic success, including an APA guide.

Submit a 500-750 word referenced reflection on what you feel were the key items covered during the week and how they might apply to your present or future education, life, or ministry. This is a very important part of the learning experience each week and should contain a significant reflection on what you have learned.Students are encouraged to read other classmates’ posts and engage with their peers, but not required to post a response.
Specifically, you should report on:

1. What is the most significant thing I learned this week?
2. How did what I learned change my thinking about this week’s topic?
3. How will I use (or have I used) this knowledge in my life?
4. What previous experiences relate to what I read and learned?
5. (optional) What questions do I still have about what I learned this week?

The above five (5) weekly reflection questions are independent of each other, meaning that your response to each question may or may not be a continued discussion of the previous question. It is possible to have five (5) entirely different responses to five (5) different aspects of what you learned this week.
To score well, the reflection must make reference to the assigned reading (including parenthetical references), will include suggested real-world manifestations of the course material, and will include a plan for implementing the material in a personal and/or professional setting.

Strategic human resources management aligns human resource practices with the strategic objectives of an organization. Successful health care managers need to understand how human resource functions can be utilized to fulfill their organization’s mission and goals, such as the promotion of high-quality care, a customer-service orientation, and financial viability. In addition, today’s health care environment requires that organizations demonstrate the value-added for the services they provide—and this includes those related to human resources management. The traditional approach to evaluating HR services has been based on productivity, volume, and efficiency measures. Such measures include the percentage of people who participated in a training program, time to fill a position, and cost per hire. These are valid measures but only capture part of the HR role. In current thinking, the HR department should not only work efficiently and productively, but also should add value to the organization. This means that the work of HR begins with the concerns of the business. And while HR groups typically see themselves as responsive to internal customers, a value-added approach means that HR needs to be aligned with internal and external stakeholders and be a source of competitive advantage for the organization. In preparation for this Discussion, review this week’s Learning Resources and consider the following: Based on your experiences and the information presented in the Learning Resources (particularly the article “Why We Hate HR”), how would you assess the HR function in most health care organizations? Is it closer to the negative or the positive view of HR? Why does HR often have a negative reputation? What have you learned in previous courses or through your professional experiences that informs your understanding of strategic human resources management? What do you see as your current or future responsibility for ensuring that an organization’s human resources practices align with its mission and objectives? How do you think the efficiency, productivity, and/or value added by HR services should be assessed? What types of metrics would you suggest be used? Why? Post by Day 4 a response to the following: Share key insights you have gained about the impression (positive, negative, or mixed) that you and others have of human resources management. Also, explain what factors might be contributing to this perception. Describe how you view your current or future responsibilities for promoting strategic human resources management within health care. Analyze two metrics and indicate how each could be used as an indicator of HR efficiency, productivity, and/or value added.