NURSING ASSESSMENT

Nursing Assessment

Abstract

In this study we try to explore the concept of Nursing Assessment in a holistic context. The main focus of the research is on Nursing Assessment and its relation with Health Issues. The research also analyzes many aspects of Nursing Assessment and tries to gauge its effect on Health Issues.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Abstract2

Introduction4

Description5

Assessment6

Cultural issues6

Social Issues7

Environmental Issues8

Economic Issues9

Educational Issues9

Conclusion9

References11

Nursing Assessment

Introduction

The nursing assessment is a tool of nursing intellectual approach to the collection of data presented by a person or a group of people while taking care by a nurse. The assessment allows the nurse data collection physiological, psychological, sociological and spiritual of a person in order to conduct the analysis in the nursing care plan. The assessment is used in the first phase of the nursing process (also called step-care nurse) in which the nurse provides a comprehensive collection of data using the data collection nurse, the medical history of person and his life story. The professional uses a frame-based nursing school of thought (Banner, 2008).

The purpose of this first step in the process of care is to identify the health problems presented by the person. The report of the evaluation is discussed as a present or potential problem. Present problems identified and prioritized the state can or nursing diagnoses. Potential problems set out the risks. The nursing assessment is also used to assess the achievement of objectives set upstream of the initial approach to care.

Promoting health is an essential element for economic and social development and helps prevent health inequalities. You should consider the needs specific people and to your participation at individual and community levels. Awareness about the difficulties of access to health for the population excluded socially vulnerable is the first step. Moreover it may affect: Prioritizing health education to health care front. Reflect and promote actions aimed at creating relationships healthier prioritize human development and social networking promote support to individuals, social groups, Community reinforcing everything. Promote public health policies that invest in prevention and health education of disadvantaged populations. The need for the Administration to increase the coverage on oral health for people is with fewer resources.

Description

Currently, it is generally accepted that in its most basic sense, the inequality in health is the inequalities that are unfair and unjust. According to Starfield points in their work, inequalities in health do not occur randomly. Health status is related to biological and social characteristics of the individual, economic and political organization, social structure and cultural background, as well as with macro demographic and ecological processes that must be taken into account for noticing trends long-term health and disease process. Starfield's article provides a useful conceptual framework that links the different influences that act dynamically on the unequal distribution of health and the causes of inequality.

With regard to equity in health outcomes, or lack thereof, inequity, or injustice, as linguistically want to express the definition of health inequity is most widespread and synthetic proposed by Margaret Whitehead, who conceptualized as differences in unnecessary and avoidable health, ...