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Tina Jones Patient Analysis and Teaching Tool
Emily C. Eaton
Southern New Hampshire University
NUR-325-X2889

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Tina Jones Patient Analysis and Teaching Tool
Introduction
When a patient comes to the doctor’s office for a comprehensive head to toe assessment,
they have confidence that the nurse can take the provided information and use it to determine the
unique health needs of the patient. Nurses create plans of care for their patients that address the
needs associated with their current illness or medical concerns and educate them to achieve
optimal health. Using the information obtained in the comprehensive head to toe assessment of
Tina Jones, a patient analysis will be created that will promote the proposal of a health promotion
teaching tool. A complete patient analysis is obtained by interviewing the patient with body
system specific and appropriate questions to collect data. The data is then compared to
established norms to identify health risks and healthy behaviors. Using these risks and behaviors
the nurse can recommend interventions that will be included in an overall plan for the patient’s
health. Once a plan is established the nurse should identify teaching tools for the patient that
relate to their health risks and behaviors. The nurse will create goals with the patient and identify
critical information and interventions to help the patient reach these goals. The teaching tool
should be presented to the patient in a clear format that takes into consideration the patients
literacy needs. In this scenario, the patient Tina Jones has come in to the doctor’s office after her
hospital stay for a mandatory pre-employment physical.
Patient Analysis
Interviewing
The process of interviewing the patient to obtain the complete health history of the
patient and their family is one of the most important things we do as nurses. The best way to

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obtain an honest and complete health history from the patient is by using therapeutic
communication. “Therapeutic communication is defined as the face to face process of interacting
that focuses on advancing the physical and emotional well-being of a patient” (Laffan, 2011). For
a nurse to truly exhibit therapeutic communication they must be both caring and empathetic to
what the patient is say (Jensen, 2015, p. 21). As a nurse, it is easy to show a patient you cause
about them. However, being able to empathize with a patient and really understand how they feel
about something takes a special highly skilled nurse. If the nurse can make the patient feel
comfortable and can show them they care, the patient may open up to the nurse and confide in
them about symptoms and experiences they may not feel comfortable telling just anyone. When
interviewing the patient about their health history it is important to ask questions in an order that
establishes trust so the patient feels comfortable.