Nursing Health Assessment You are working as a school nurse at the local high school. The school nurse has many responsibilities including student assessment, acute and chronic management, monitoring students’ general well-being, medication administration, and health promotion and education for students and their families. Your first appointment this morning is with a student that you have never met called Jay. You call Jay in from the waiting room; as he approaches you observe that he is tall and skinny, appears well, and is ambulating normally with a steady gait. Jay is an 18-year-old male who informs you that he has made the appointment with you because he needs to have a ‘complete physical’ before his coach will allow him to participate in the school’s athletics program. Jay fills in the admission form while you set up the examination room. What is the primary purpose of a health assessment?
a. To gather information.
b. To cluster information.
c. To analyze information.
d. To evaluate information.