Head-To-Toe Assessment: A Case Study

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As nurses and future NPs, we have to look at a patient in a holistic manner. If the patient shows signs and symptoms pertinent to only one body system, you would not just look at that particular system. Rather you would conduct a head-to-toe assessment to rule out or rule in other diseases and do a more thorough examination on the system that the patient has specific complaints about.
Answers to questions 1 and 3 could be interrelated. Our case study patient might have neurological symptoms or complications such as drowsiness, confusion, neurological deterioration, and/or gait disturbances (Hufschmid et al., 2010). As for question 2, I came across an interesting case study by Jiten and Lacour (2012) wherein the patient’s primary complaint

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