Caring For the Nguyens
Critical thinking is critical in caring to effect the desired outcome from patients. The paper attempts to answer the type of assessment, data, and follow-up assessment that would best fit Nam Nguyen’s situation at the Family Medicine Center.
The type of assessment that gets conducted at the clinic visit is comprehensive. The assessment is since the nurse does not gather data on a single problem; instead, the nurse collects all aspects of the situation of Mr. Nguyen (Treas et al., 2018).
The type of data gathered so far includes subjective, objective, and primary data. The subjective data constitutes the patient’s statements and details that Nam Nguyen provided on the intake sheet, such as the bilateral knee pain (Treas et al., 2018). Additionally, the objective data include the vital signs and the observations that the healthcare providers made. Again, the primary data involve the combination of these two data, both the subjective and the objective data, as gathered in at the Family Medicine Center.
To verify the data that Nam Nguyen gave on the intake form, I would perform tests to validate the data. Also, I will ask questions related to the given information, and per the test results, to double-check my data to come up with accurate information (Treas et al., 2018).
Regarding follow-up assessments, I would offer various assessments such as pain, nutritional, cultural, family, psychosocial, and wellness assessments to help with Mr. Nguyen’s care. I would make these assessments for various reasons; for example, pain assessment will help evaluate his knee pain. The nutritional assessment would be vital since Mr. Nguyen’s mother was obese and suffered from heart-related problems. Also, cultural assessment and family assessments would help evaluate the patient’s beliefs about his illness and understand the structure of his family, including the history of heart disease from both parents (Treas et al., 2018). The psychosocial assessment would be vital in evaluating Nam Nguyen’s lifestyle and patterns of coping. Lastly, a wellness assessment would assist in identifying health promotional activities.
References
Treas, L. S., Wilkinson, J. M., Barnett, K. L., & Smith, M. H. (2018). Basic nursing: Concepts, skills, and nursing.