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    The document discusses the importance of health assessments for nurses. It notes that health assessments are a key responsibility for nurses and allow them to notice underlying health issues in patients. The data collected from assessments helps nurses create goals to improve patient health and ensure they recover. The author discusses learning to complete comprehensive head-to-toe assessments through their health assessment class and gaining experience assessing patients in clinical practice. They feel assessment skills are vital for nurses to be successful and develop critical thinking abilities needed to safely care for patients.

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    The document discusses the importance of health assessments for nurses. It notes that health assessments are a key responsibility for nurses and allow them to notice underlying health issues in patients. The data collected from assessments helps nurses create goals to improve patient health and ensure they recover. The author discusses learning to complete comprehensive head-to-toe assessments through their health assessment class and gaining experience assessing patients in clinical practice. They feel assessment skills are vital for nurses to be successful and develop critical thinking abilities needed to safely care for patients.

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    Jessica Crihfield

    A health assessment is a very important first step when developing the best plan of care

    for your patient.It is a key part of our role and responsibility as a nurse. During this crucial step

    nurses may notice signs of underlying health issues that need to be addressed. Nurses use the

    comprehensive data they have collected from the assessment to achieve goals for the patient.

    These goals are vital in contributing to the health of the patient and ensuring they get better.

    Through my health assessment class I have learned everything I need to confidently complete a

    head to toe assessment on a patient. I have also learned much more than that such as how to

    critically think. These are all very vital skills we need to be successful nurses. A nurse once told

    me that if you can perform a good head to toe assessment you will be successful in your career. I

    feel the most important skill I’ve learned in health assessment is completing a head to toe. This

    initial assessment will help us determine anything abnormal in a patient. These findings could

    save a patient's life.

    We have learned how to properly do head to toe by continuously practicing the whole

    semester. Starting with our vital signs competency. I now feel very confident in reading blood

    pressures after practicing them all semester in clinical. Clinical was also a place where we got

    plenty of practice. Each module we learned about a different system and then put that knowledge

    to use by assessing a patient in clinical. This allowed us to gradually build up to completing a

    full head to toe. We had already performed each system step by step; we just needed to put it all

    together. This allowed me to be more confident when completing our comp offs. We had already

    assessed each system plenty of times.

    I feel one of the most important aspects of nursing is being able to critically think. In a

    situation of life or death you need to know to appropriately handle the situation and ensure you

    are making the right decision. One of the reasons critically thinking is important in nursing is
    ensuring patient safety. By critically thinking you are able to detect changes in a patient's health.

    This is very important when treating patients. Critical thinking can also lead to innovative

    improvements. Creating new ways to improve processes and patient outcomes will help the

    healthcare field evolve into greater patient satisfaction.

    Health assessment has given me a good foundation that I will carry with me in my years

    to come as a student and as a future nurse. I can confidently assess a patient and recognize if

    there is something abnormal. I feel health assessment is one if not the most important class that

    builds us into future nurses. If you can perform a good assessment and know that something is

    not right then you will be successful in caring for patients. I am looking forward to my future

    years as a student and growing my knowledge.

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