Question

A nursing instructor is teaching about taking a health history and how to elicit a chief concern. The instructor realizes a need for further education when a student makes with statement?

Answer 1

Answer: Frequency refers to how often the concern occurs during the day.

Intensity refers to the kind of problem.

Associated symptoms are important to ask about.

Explanation: Frequency refers to how often the concern/symptom occurs generally,it is not limited to time and day.

Intensity refers to the severity of the problem or the disease condition not the kind of problem.

Associated symptoms are very important to ask about because it can link the Nursing Instructor to the actual problem.