What does the health history include?

Health history includes name, sex, age, native place, nationality, marriage, etc. Chief complaint is the most important and obvious symptom or sign, and its nature and duration are also the main reasons for this visit. Through the chief complaint, we can initially understand the system and nature of the disease, which is helpful to judge the main diagnostic problems.

Health history assessment method

The process of systematically collecting patients' health history data through talking with patients and making clinical judgments through comprehensive analysis. Conversation is a way for nurses to understand the occurrence and development of diseases and their accompanying physical discomfort, dysfunction and psychological reaction by talking with patients or insiders.

Formal conversations are notified in advance, and informal conversations are also available. Nurses talk to patients casually and naturally in daily life. In the preparation stage, the environmental time reference materials determine the purpose, introduce yourself at the initial stage, introduce the rules and regulations, gain trust, eliminate strangeness and establish a nurse-patient relationship.