Framework for Health Assessment

2.6. Sensory—Perceptual Pattern

• Describe your ability to see, hear, feel, taste, and smell.
• Describe any difficulty you have with your vision, hearing, and ability to feel (e.g., touch, pain, heat, cold), taste (salty, sweet, bitter, sour), or smell.
• Pain Assessment: Complete Symptom Analysis on client.

Special Aids:

• What devices (e.g., glasses, contact lenses, hearing aids)
• Describe any medications you take to help you with these problems.
• Perform assessment on Eye Ear Nose and Sinus
• Wellness Diagnosis: Opportunity to enhance comfort level
• Risk Diagnoses: Risk for pain
• Actual Diagnoses: Pain