Reflection On Subjective Assessment

During my initial subjective assessment the patient was positioned in a high sitting position. During the subjective assessment the patient mentioned that she frequently felt dizzy when rotating her cervical spine suddenly. This finding alerted me to the fact that she may have vertebrobasilar insufficiency. I later made the decision to position the patient in side lying to enable me to auscultate her basal lobes and assess her basal expansion. I was concentrating very hard on listening to her air entry, which was made particularly difficult as the ward was extremely noisy at the time. Suddenly my clinical educator arrived unexpectedly to observe me. I continued with my assessment of the patient’s lower lobes and when I ‘d finished the assessment