Patient Assessment

The first thing to do is build rapport with the patient. As a nurse, I must assess the patient’s age, cultures, level of understanding and readiness to learn. The age of my patient can make a difference. When dealing with a young mother, there is a lot of teaching to be done especially if she is a first-time mother. I want to be able to level my teaching with my patient’s age level, in a way that she can feel being respected and acknowledge accordingly. When it comes to being a mother, cultures have some effect on teaching a patient as well because some might prefer for their own mother to teach them on how to care for the newborn. Another way to assess is to check the level of understanding of the patient maybe there is a language barrier