Create a patient who has presented to the office for a health assessment as a new patient.

Adapting Nursing role

OBJECTIVE

The purpose of this discussion is to consider how individual factors can impact the health assessment. These factors include but are not limited to age, gender, mental health, literacy, disability, and culture. Students will discuss the impact of individual factors on the assessment and then collaborate on strategies to adapt the environment and assessment techniques to best facilitate the provider-patient relationship and data collection.

INITIAL POST

Create a patient who has presented to the office for a health assessment as a new patient. Provide the demographics of the patient and background that includes factors that impact their care. then discussion how the age and these other individual factors have the potential to impact the provider-patient relationship and the health assessment (both subjective and objective findings).

These individual factors may include any factor that has the potential to impact the relationship or the assessment. Examples are age, gender, mental health, literacy, disability, culture, and language.