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What is the purpose of obtaining a health history from a patient?
To identify problems and formulating nursing diagnoses
Why is health history considered an essential part of patient assessment?
To obtain critical information about the patient's health status
What should a nurse aim to achieve by the end of taking a patient's health history?
Have an idea of possible causes of the patient's illness
In which way does obtaining a health history help in client care?
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What is one of the purposes of guiding a patient into giving out information during health history taking?
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What is the purpose of eliciting the 'exact nature of symptom' in a health history?
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Why is it important to ask about 'change over time' when evaluating a symptom?
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In a health history, asking about 'what makes it worse' aligns with which mnemonic commonly used for pain assessment?
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When assessing a patient's past medical history, which of the following conditions should be specifically asked for according to the text?
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Which component of health history involves questions about family health, diseases running in the family, and deaths and causes in the family?
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