In this mid-course entry into your Nurse E-Portfolio for this course, you will be examining your perceptions of the nurse in the role of collecting and assessing information. Using the e-portfolio format, answer the following questions. Make sure you spend some time thinking about the answers to these questions before writing.

1. What have you learned so far in this course that will help you conduct effective health assessments?
2. What skills do you have you gained?
3. Describe any areas that are still unclear and ways you will gain clarity.

Answer preview

An effective health assessment helps to engineer a productive nurse-patient relationship. The first thing to do when seeking to conduct a health assessment is to collect as much information as possible from my patient. The data helps me contextualize what is wrong with a patient and how I can help them. By asking the right questions regarding how the condition affecting my patient came about, I can come…