Health Assessment
I assigned to a group of people to collect history and interview process on
a 76-year-old black male with disabilities living in an urban setting in a community. I
can describe this patient to my father, who is a black male aged around 72 years old
and live in New-York, Staten Island, in an urban setting. Moreover, my father has
visual impairment such as chronic glaucoma, lack of teeth, which required a pureed
diet, and had chronic disabilities such as diabetic Mellitus and diagnosed at age 47. In
this discussion, I will discuss the approach and what I need to keep in mind during
interviewing this group of people. Now I have evidence of the person I assigned to
addressed, and I can imagine myself talking to my father during this interview.
How would your communication and interview techniques for building a health
history differ with each patient?
Communication is a complex, ongoing, interactive process and a positive
patient relationship depends on interface built on courtesy, comfort, connection, and
confirmation (Ball. et all 2015 page 2 & Jensen 2011 page 23). In my patient case, as
a 76-year-old black male with disabilities, living in an urban setting, many factors
reflect my patient’ s condition, which is elderly, disabilities, urban environment. In a
community-based cross-sectional study was conducted in 16 community health
service (CHS) institutions in Zhejiang Province, in China to prove the relationship
between general practitioners and elderly patients. Who have a history of
cardiovascular disease and diabetic, which show that these categories patients need to
have a close relationship with their health care to care for their sickness (Yanrong
Zhao et al. 2017).
How might you target your questions for building a health history based on the
patient’s social determinants of health?
To build up a health history in my group of people, I will first introduce
myself to my patient by stating my name and my role as a student (Ball et al. 2015
page 6). I will address the patient by repeat his or name appropriate times and avoid
using the first name; I will not use a surrogate name (Ball et al. 2015 page 6). I will
look at the patient when talking and not at the electronic device; I will listen to the
patient by fixing my attention on the patient, avoid interrupting as much as possible
(Ball et al. 2015 page 7). Failure to take an adequate physical examination or to
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