Building a health history
To prepare: Effective communication is vital to constructing an accurate and detailed patient history. A patient’s health or illness is influenced by many factors, including age, gender, ethnicity, and environmental setting.
To prepare:
(a) How would your communication and interview techniques for building a health history differ with each patient?
(b) How might you target your question for building a health history based on the patient’s social determinants of health?
(c) What risk assessment instruments would be appropriate to use with each patient, or what questions would you ask each patient to assess his or her health risk?
(d) Identify any potential health-related risks based upon the patient’s age, gender, ethnicity, or environmental settings that should be taken into consideration
(e) Select one of Seidel”s Guide To PHYSICAL EXAMINATION TEXT, OR ANOTHER TOOL WITH WHICH YOU ARE FAMILIAR, RELATED TO YOUR SELECTED PATIENT
(f) Develop at LEAST FIVE TARGETED QUESTIONS you would ask your selected patient to assess his or her mental health risks and begin building a health history.
