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Central Hospital Nursing Institute: Nilufa Yesmin B.Sc. in Nursing (RANC) Nursing Instructor (CHNI)

Physical assessment involves systematically collecting objective health data through a health history and full body examination. It can examine the entire body or specific body systems/parts. The purposes of physical assessment include obtaining baseline health data, identifying early-stage diseases, determining treatment needs, and evaluating health progress. The main techniques used are inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation. Inspection uses vision to observe the body's appearance, following principles like good lighting, exposing only the area examined, and noting characteristics like color, size, and symmetry.

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Central Hospital Nursing Institute: Nilufa Yesmin B.Sc. in Nursing (RANC) Nursing Instructor (CHNI)

Physical assessment involves systematically collecting objective health data through a health history and full body examination. It can examine the entire body or specific body systems/parts. The purposes of physical assessment include obtaining baseline health data, identifying early-stage diseases, determining treatment needs, and evaluating health progress. The main techniques used are inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation. Inspection uses vision to observe the body's appearance, following principles like good lighting, exposing only the area examined, and noting characteristics like color, size, and symmetry.

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Central hospital Nursing Institute

Nilufa Yesmin
B.Sc. in Nursing (RANC)
Nursing Instructor(CHNI)
Physical Assessment
Definition of Physical Assessment
Physical assessment is an organized systematic
process of collecting objective data based upon
a health history and head- to- toe or general
systems examination. A physical assessment
should be adjusted to the patient, based on his
needs. It can be a complete physical assessment,
an assessment of a body system, or an
assessment of a body part.
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Physical assessment or examination is a
through investigation of the entire body or
some parts of a body to determine the
general physical or mental condition of the
body.
Purposes of physical assessment:
1. To obtain base line data about the client
functional activities.
2. To supplement , confirm or refuse data obtain
in the nursing history.
3. To identify disease in its early stage.
4. Determine the cause and extent of the
disease.
5. To obtain data that determine the nature of
the treatment or nursing care needed for the
patient.
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6. To evaluate the physiological outcomes
of health and thus the progress of a
client’s health problems.
7. To find out whether the person is
medically fit or not for a particular task.
8. To screen for the presence of disease.
Technique of Health Assessment :
The nurse mainly uses four technique
during performing physical assessment. The
following techniques are given below-
1. Inspection
2. Palpation
3. Percussion
4. Auscultation
Inspection
Definition of inspection:
Inspection is defined as “the use of the senses of
vision, smell and hearing to observe the normal
condition or any deviations from normal of
various body parts.
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Visual examination of a person is called
inspection. This is done in an orderly manner,
focusing on one area of the body at a time.
Principles of Accurate Inspection:
1. Good lightening either day light or
artificial light is suitable.
2. Expose body parts being observed only.
3. Look before touching.
4. Warm room for examination of the
client “not cold not hot”.
5. Observe for color, size, location,
texture, symmetry, odors and sounds.
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6. Compare each area inspected with the


opposite side of body if possible.
7. Use pen light to inspect body cavities.
Guidelines for the technique of inspection:
 Make sure the room is a confortable
temperature .a too cold or too hot room can
alter the normal behavior of the client and
the appearance of the client’s skin.
 Use good lighting, preferably sunlight ;
fluorescent lights can alter the true color of
the skin .In addition abnormalities may be
over looked with dim lighting.
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 Look and observe before touching .Touch
can alter appearance and distract from a
complete, focused observation.
 Completely expose the body part I am
inspecting while draping the rest of the client
as appropriate.
 Note the following characteristics while
inspecting the clients color, patterns, size,
location, consistency, summery, movement,
behavior, odors or sounds.
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 Compare the appearance of symmetric
body parts.E.g.-eyes, ears, arms, hands,
or both sides of any individual body
part.

Thank You.

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