Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing 13th Edition by Kerry Cheever, Janice Hinkle

Exercise 3

Identify the priorities, approach, and techniques you would use to perform acomprehensive admission assessment on a 45-year-old woman with metastatic livercancer. How would your priorities, approach, and techniques differ if the patient hasmetastatic lesions to the brain and is disoriented? If the patient has a visualimpairment or is hard of hearing? If the patient is from a culture with very differentvalues from your own?