Nursing
Week Two Journal Review
Lloyd, H, & Craig, S. (2007). A guide to taking a patient's history. Nursing Standard, 22(13), 42-48.
Lloyd and Craig's article, "A guide to taking a patient's history" provides the fundamental components to attaining a complete, thorough and effective patient history. The article explores on the basic importance of a patient history and the importance of preparing the environment, communication, gaining consent, the process of actually attaining the information and finally actually taking the different type of history's that a patient can have including past medical history, sexual history, medication history, mental health, family history, among others. First, the article discusses preparing the environment to take the history which is important because it allows for the "maintenance of privacy and dignity" so it builds patient trust in the nurse (Lloyd and Craig, 2007). It is also important to allow for sufficient time in preparing to take a history as it allows for more time to get all the details and information that are necessary for future treatment. Another important component that was discussed was the communication between the nurse and the patient as "developing a rapport with the patient includes being professionally friendly" and engaging in "active listening" (Lloyd and Craig, 2007). Important assessment procedures that were discussed include the core history-taking process. First, it is important to start...
nurses can use to obtain and capture a patient's medical history. The importance of these processes is to ensure that there will not be inadequate patient assessments, as these may result in adverse outcomes during the patient care. Preparation of the environment, good communication skills and ordering of the questions are very important in the process of acquiring patient history. There is no specific population stated in the article,
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