Health Assessment (FINALS)

• Core Values


  The fundamental beliefs of a person or organization that dictate behavior and help understand right and wrong, and guide companies to fulfill their goals
• Core Values of Nursing in Conducting Health Assessment

  • Caring
  • Communication
  • Integrity
  • Diversity
  • Empathy
  • Teaching
  • Critical Thinking
  • Psychomotor Skills
  • Ethical and Legal Considerations
  • Professionalism
• Caring


  Promoting health, healing, and hope in response to the human condition, involving the planning and provision of culturally sensitive and appropriate care
• Communication


  The exchange of thoughts, messages, or information is of vital importance to the nursing process
• Integrity


  Respecting the dignity and moral wholeness of every person without conditions or limitation
• Diversity


  Affirming the uniqueness of and differences among, persons, ideas, values, and ethnicities
• Empathy


  The nurse's ability to understand, be aware of, be sensitive to, and vicariously experience the feelings, thoughts, and experiences of the patient and their family, based upon respect for the dignity of the client and an appreciation for the independence and self-actualization of the patient
• Teaching


  One of the most important role of a nurse is to assist patients and their families with receiving information necessary for maintaining a patient's optimal health, providing patients and families with information that is based on their assessed learning needs, their abilities, their learning preference, and their readiness to learn
• Critical Thinking


  • Nurses are constantly involved in making accurate and appropriate clinical decisions
  • A nurse must question, wonder, and be able to explore various perspectives and possibilities in order to help the patients
  • Nurses reflect on past experiences, think independently, take risks based on knowledge, persevere in the face of difficult problems, and are curious, creative, and ethical
• Psychomotor Skills


  • Nursing skills are utilized in a manner that maximizes client comfort and dignity or optimizes the client's ability to respond positively, provides the highest level of accuracy of information, and provides for the most favorable patient outcomes
  • Fundamentals to nursing are the " laying on of hands" to provide comfort and the use of specific skills to accomplish client assessment and provide and evaluate nursing care
• Ethical and Legal Considerations


  A nurse plans provides and evaluates nursing care guided by specific ethical and legal boundaries, the Code of Ethics for Nurses provides the ideal framework for safe and correct practices and behavior, nurses who clarify their values are enhanced in their ability to practice ethically
• Professionalism


  • It involves the characteristics of a nurse that reflects his or her professional status, involving behaviors with regards to self, patient, others, and the public as they reflect the values of the nursing profession
  • Nurses enhance their professionalism by understanding history, educational choice, professional research and theory, and their professional organizations and standards