This document provides an overview of health assessments prepared by Usha Rani Kandula of Arsi University in Ethiopia. It introduces health assessments as comprehensive examinations of an individual's physical, mental, spiritual, socio-economic, and cultural status. It notes that nursing assessments focus on functional abilities and responses to illness, while medical assessments focus on disease and pathology. The document also describes physical examinations as techniques to gather objective health data and stresses the importance of obtaining subjective information through questioning during physical assessments.

1. HEALTH ASSESSMENT
GENERAL EXAMINATION.
PREPARED BY:
USHA RANI KANDULA,
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR,
DEPARTMENT OF ADULT HEALTH NURSING,
ARSI UNIVERSITY,ASELLA,ETHIOPIA,
EAST AFRICA.

2. INTRODUCTION
-Health assessment is a comprehensive assessment of the
physical,
Mental,
spiritual,
Socio-economic,
cultural status of an individual, group, or community.

3. -Nursing assessments focus on the client’s
functional abilities and physical responses
to illness and other stressors.

4. In contrast, medical assessments focus on
disease and pathology.

5. Physical assessment, or physical
examination, consists of the techniques
used to gather objective data about the
body.

6. PHYSICAL EXAMINATION

7. PHYSICAL EXAMINATION
A complete health assessment includes both
a nursing history and a physical
examination.

8. In addition to physical examination,also ask
questions to obtain subjective data about
each body system or area.

9. This may be done in a separate nursing
interview or as perform the physical
examination.

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