Head-to-Toe Assessment

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.

Head-to-Toe Assessment

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.

On a separate references page, cite all sources using APA format.

Use this APA Citation Helper as a convenient reference for properly citing resources.

This handout will provide you the details of formatting your essay using APA style.

You may create your essay in this APA-formatted template.

Submission Details. Head-to-Toe Assessment.

These are discussion threads 2 paragraphs each. My practice is medical/surgical/observation unit. Below is the questions and where to get the information. Scholarly article 6-8 years old. Thank you.

Discussion 1 In one of the reading assignments this week you reviewed advance nurse practitioner (APN) roles and the application of project management concepts, one of the major elements of NI, but new to most nurses. Does this have an application to your practice? Why or why not?

Sipes, C. (2016). Project management for the advanced practice nurse, Springer.

• Chapter 1: Basic Project Management for Advance Practice Nurses and Health Care Professionals; Examples of APN Projects/Roles. pp. 4-11

• Chapter 1: Basic Project Management for Advance Practice Nurses and Health Care Professionals; Project Management: Why do we need it? Pp. 12

• Chapter 2: Advanced practice nurse role description and application of project management concepts; Chapter 2, pp 16-24

Website Exploration:

Visit the following site http://www.fiercehealthit.com/ (explore healthcare technology news on CPOE, EMRs, E-prescribing, HIE, PHRs, HIT stimulus, and other health IT news)

Discussion 2 A new concept for some organizations is to allow nurses to bring in their own devices known as bring your own devices (BYOD) to use at work. What are some of the security issues you might encounter if this were allowed? How would you address these issues?