Sacred 7
Describes the character of the symptoms.
Examples include: color and consistency of body fluids, the size of lumps or lesions
Quality
Data perceptible to the senses, such as signs that can be seen, heard, or felt and such things such as laboratory reports.
Objective
Professional
Used to assess the patient's feelings about a health care problem. For example: "Can you tell me what makes your pain worse?"
Open-ended questions
Who is responsible for obtaining clinical history and interviewing the patient?
Radiographer
As exact and precise area as possible for patient's complaint. Tech can identify this area by having the patient point to the area.
Localization
Data that pertains to or is perceived only by the affected individual.
Subjective
If the patient is angry or combative how do you help the patient overcome it. Hint: One word answer
Acknowledge
Questions used to elicit information quickly that only require a one-or-two word answer. For example: " What is your name and date of birth?"
Close-ended questions
You should address the patient by their __________ name and then ask them how they preferred to be addressed.
Last name
Time element of the history. Example: " How many days have you had a fever?"
Chronology
"It feels like someone is standing on my chest"
Subjective data
You should not sympathize with the patient, instead you should ___________ with the patient.
Empathize
The patient's primary medical problem
Chief complaint
You should take _______ when patient is providing information to you, this makes it clear that the information they are giving you is important enough to be recorded.
Notes
Describes the intensity, quantity, or extent of the problem. Example: "Can you put weight on your injured ankle?"
Severity
Patient's vital signs:
Heart rate - 95
Blood pressure - 120/75
Temp. 99.2 degrees F
Objective data
3 essential listening qualities are:
1 - Respect
2 - Genuiness
3 - __________
Empathy
Type of question that should be avoided while taking patient history? Questions that introduce bias into the history.
Leading questions
A __________ interview includes a list of written questions that require direct responses.
Structured
Involves the patient explaining what he or she was doing when the illness or condition began. For example: "How did you hurt your foot?"
Onset
Data that is subject to interpretation
Subjective
According to Dr. Eric Cassell, a Radiographer can become part of the healing process by showing _______ in the patient's well being.
Interest
You should __________ to the whole message before responding appropriately to the patient.
Listen
A __________ interview is an informal interview, that is dependent on patient responses?
Unstructured