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Patient history

This page allows you to record patients' medical histories and physical status, which aids in diagnosis and treatment. It includes long- and short-term goals, proposals for further action, and other relevant details. All this information can be recorded electronically in PDF or JPG format or printed for physical records.

Providing your primary care provider with a thorough medical history gives them a better understanding of your overall health. It enables your medical practitioner to identify patterns and make more effective decisions tailored to your specific health needs.

This process also allows your practitioner to assess your risk for certain diseases or conditions. It can help prevent the onset of health problems. For example, if you have a family history of diabetes, your doctor will know to monitor you closely for prediabetes. Similarly, your practitioner may order tests or screenings if you are at higher risk for certain chronic complications.

Your practitioner will work with you to establish a plan to stay healthy and reduce your risk of developing preventable diseases.

Document Your Medical History and Share This

  • Name
  • Address
  • Date of Birth
  • Referring Practitioner Information
  • Occupation
  • Family
  • Daily Function
  • Medical History

Medical History

  1. Family illnesses – Parents, siblings, children.
  2. Prior illnesses – In chronological order. Duration, treatment, complications.
  3. Present illnesses – Onset, symptoms, course of symptoms, present status.

Physical Examination

Upper Extremities

Lower Extremities

Force

Muscle force over joints:

  • Shoulders
  • Elbows
  • Fist
  • Hip
  • Knee
  • Ankle

Coordination

Normal sensibility for pain, touch, and temperature.

Balance and Walking

Normal walking, standing on heels and toes, and rising up.

• name, address, date of birth, referring practitioner

Chief physical complaints

Social status

• occupation, family, daily function, ... Medical history

  1. a) Family illnesses – parents, siblings, children

  2. b) Prior illnesses – in chronological order. Duration, treatment, complications

  3. c) Present illnesses – onset, symptoms, course of symptoms, present status

  • Upper extremities

  • Lower extremities

    Force

    Muscle force over joints:

    Shoulders, elbows, fist, hip, knee, ankle

    Coordination

    Normal sensibility for pain, touch and

    Temperature Balance and walking

    Normal walk, stand on heels and toes, rise up

History should be Focus on physical
examination which include

Present illness,

  • Patient past medical history
  • Previous or present medications and allergies
  • Family background social history
  • Finally occupational history
  • If any pathological investigation done if yes notify in short

Presentation of patient Case

Describe the case in a narrative form.

  • Demographics of patient (age, sex, height, weight, race, occupation).
  • Avoid patient date of birth, initials and father name.
  • Describe a short patient's complaint.
  • Present illness as well as medical history must be listed.

  • Include the important details of your current problem.

  • Share your past medical history.
  • Include your social history.
  • Write Out Your Questions and Expectations.

Three Types of Patients

Dependent Patient

The patient relies entirely on your clinical judgment and defers all decisions to you.

Fixation-Focused Patient

The patient wants the problem resolved immediately and is unwilling to consider alternative treatment options.

Surgery-Averse Patient

The patient wants to avoid surgery at all costs and prefers non-invasive approaches.

Patient Feedback

In this page patients feedback can be done. This will help to record in short progress reports of patients . These all details can be recorded electronically in pdf or jpg format or can be printed out.

Through this page patient treatment effectiveness can be recorded.Further treatment is needed or not needed ? 

Chief physical complaints and importance feedback 

  1. Always date and sign your notes, whether written or on the computer. Don’t change them. If you realise later that they are factually inaccurate, add an amendment.
  2. Appropriate record-keeping is recognised as an important component of professional standards If any alteration is done clearly give your name and date. .
  1. Give in detail all decisions made, any discussions, information given, relevant history, clinical findings, patient progress, investigations, results, and referrals.
  2. Medical records can contain a wide range of equipment used and correspondence material.
  3. Do not write such comments – eg, racist, sexist or ageist remarks. except relevant to the health record.
  4. Remember patients have a right to access their own medical records 
  5.  Good record-keeping helps to maintain best practice, aiding clear communication between professionals, and demonstrates that best practice has been followed.

Short Nursing Care Feedback

This page helps to assess the database. It provides an overview of the more commonly seen signs and symptoms and their corresponding diagnostic findings.

Nursing

Establishes a general ranking of needs and concerns on which the nursing diagnoses are ordered in constructing the plan of care. This can be altered according to the individual client's situation.

Goal to Discharge

Identifies short-term and intermediate goals to be achieved by the client before being "discharged" from nursing care. They may also provide guidance for creating long-term goals for the client to work on after discharge.

Nursing Diagnosis

The general need or problem (diagnosis) is stated without the distinct cause and signs and symptoms, which would be added to create a client diagnostic statement when specific client information is available. For example, when a client displays increased tension, apprehension, a quivering voice, and focus on self, the nursing diagnosis of Anxiety might be stated as: Severe Anxiety related to unconscious conflict and threat to self-concept, as evidenced by statements of increased tension and apprehension, and observations of a quivering voice and focus on self.

In addition, diagnoses identified within these guides for planning care as actual or risk can be changed or deleted, and new diagnoses added, depending entirely on the specific client information.

Possible Evidence

These lists provide the usual or common reasons (etiology) why a particular need or problem may occur, along with probable signs and symptoms, which would be used to create the "related to" and "evidenced by" portions of the client diagnostic statement when the specific situation is known.

When a risk diagnosis has been identified, signs and symptoms have not yet developed and therefore are not included in the nursing diagnosis statement. However, interventions are provided to prevent progression to an actual problem. The exception to this occurs in the nursing diagnosis Risk for Violence, which has possible indicators that reflect the client's risk status.

Nursing Interventions

Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) labels are drawn from a standardized nursing language and serve as a general header for the nursing actions that follow.

Division of Nursing Actions:

  • Independent – Those actions that the nurse performs autonomously.
  • Collaborative – Those actions that the nurse performs in conjunction with others, such as implementing physician orders.

The interventions in this book are generally ranked from most to least common. When creating the individual plan of care, interventions would normally be ranked to reflect the client's specific needs and situation. In addition, the division of independent and collaborative interventions is arbitrary and is actually dependent on the individual nurse's capabilities, as well as hospital and community standards.

This abbreviated plan of care or care map is event- or task-oriented and provides outcome-based guidelines for goal achievement within a designated length of stay. Several samples have been included to demonstrate alternative planning formats.

Patient CARE

On this page, the patient's history for physical status can be recorded. This will help in the diagnosis and treatment of patients, which includes long- and short-term goals, proposals for further action, etc. All these details can be recorded electronically in PDF or JPG format, or they can be printed out.

Providing your primary care practitioner with this information gives him or her a better understanding of your health. It allows your medical practitioner to identify patterns and make more effective decisions based on your specific health needs.

This allows your practitioner to assess your risk for certain diseases or conditions. It can also help prevent the onset of certain health problems. For example, if you have a family history of diabetes, your doctor will know to look closely for prediabetes. Alternatively, your practitioner may order tests or screenings if you have a higher risk for certain types of chronic complications.

Your practitioner will work with you to establish a plan to stay healthy and decrease your risk of developing certain diseases.

Document your medical history and share this information with your practitioner, including:

  • Name, address, date of birth, and referring practitioner

Chief Physical Complaints

Social Status

  • Occupation, family, daily function, etc.

Medical History

  1. Family illnesses – parents, siblings, children
  2. Prior illnesses – in chronological order, including duration, treatment, and complications
  3. Present illnesses – onset, symptoms, course of symptoms, and present status

Upper Extremities

Lower Extremities

Force

Muscle force over joints:

  • Shoulders, elbows, fist, hip, knee, ankle

Coordination

Normal sensibility for pain, touch, and temperature

Balance and Walking

  • Normal walk
  • Stand on heels and toes
  • Rise up

Different Reasons That Can Cause Muscle Stiffness

  • Exercise with physical strain or stress
  • Muscle overuse
  • Cramps
  • Different types of rheumatic problems
  • Various infections
  • Allergic reactions
  • Different orthopedic, neurological, or psychiatric problems
  • Vitamin deficiency, e.g., vitamin D or magnesium, etc.
  • Chronic fatigue
  • Various inflammatory disorders

Can Muscle Stiffness Be Treated?

Muscle stiffness treatments are dependent upon the cause. Muscle stiffness due to overuse of skeletal muscle will eventually disappear on its own, or common home treatments will help.

Relief from Stiffness

Resting the muscles, or applying ice packs and heating pads, stretching, or lightly massaging the muscle.

After 48 hours, local medical advice should be sought.

What Are the Most Important Facts to Know About Muscle Stiffness?

  • A tight feeling in the muscles, associated with pain and difficulty moving.
  • Overusing muscles or being physically inactive for long periods of time.
  • Other conditions, including myopathy and neurologic disorders.

Muscle stiffness can be diagnosed through:

  1. Medical history
  2. Physical examinations, along with follow-up assessments

Importance of Exercise Plan

  • Improves physical activity
  • Maintains range of motion, muscle strength, and muscle mobility
  • Reduces physical risk
  • Reduces medical complications
  • Prevents psychological complications

Physical therapists and related professions often use muscle testing.

Muscle testing is used to determine:

  • Gait analysis
  • Strength training exercises
  • Muscle tolerance
  • Measurement of muscle strength and function
  • Planning for exercise therapy
  • Evaluation of exercise tolerance

Mental symptoms of anxiety can include:

  • Nervousness, restlessness, or tension
  • Feelings of danger, panic, or dread
  • Increased heart rate
  • Shortness of breath or uncomfortable breathing
  • Increased or heavy sweating
  • Mild to moderate trembling
  • Weakness and lethargy
  • Difficulty making decisions
  • Inability to sleep (insomnia)
  • Stomach discomfort
  • Mild to moderate hallucinations
  • Complex fears
  • Disruptive or disturbed behavior
  • Difficulty concentrating

Function of Naturopathy

  • Nutritional and dietary consultation to help prevent medical problems and complications
  • Herbal advice
  • Hot and cold water therapy
  • Sauna and steam bath guidance
  • Mud bath therapy
  • Light relaxation massage
  • Acupressure
  • Basic counselling techniques

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