Health Assessment Ch. 6- General Survey

Question 1

General Survey

Answer 1

• FIRST step when assessing a patient as a whole

- uses sense of sight, hearing, smell

Question 2

Assessment Steps

Answer 2

a. physical appearance
b. behavior and mental status
c. facial expression
d. mood
e. speech
f. mobility
g. sign of pain, respiratory, cardiac, or gastrointestinal distress