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Felicity Huxstep, a 50 years old single female, lives alone with a pet dog. She is a teacher working in Department of education for the higher primary. She was presented for a general health checkup and assessment to see how is she travelling with her health issues. Six months ago, Felicity developed plantar fasciitis in both feet’s to some degree and worse on the right foot after having arthroscopy of left knee done, and fascia on right foot gave way after she played sports (hockey) and is still trying to heal that ever since. She is on therapeutic medication for thyroid. Her pass medical and surgical histories are removal of appendices when she was 7, broken arm in year 6 and got it surgically fixed and casted and in year 12 developed Bell’s Paulsy and the facial muscle on left side were affected, took part in physiotherapy and regained 95% of shape.

Felicity Huxstep is in her adulthood, according to Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development, and this is the seventh stage of psychosocial development which is Generativity versus Stagnation (Berman, Table 21.3, pg. 401). “Generativity, then is primarily the concern in establishing and guiding the next generation…” (E.H Erikson, 1950, p. 267).

From the interview, I would consider obesity as the actual and potential health issue of Felicity aligned with physical development age related changes. In general obesity in adulthood is linked to an increased risk of death, disease and disabilities. It is difficult to estimate the general health impact of obesity in adulthood because of complex interactions with smoking, alcohol and some other health factors such as diabetes, hypertension and more.
Consequently, there have been no robust estimates of life expectancy lost as a ...

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...heir health/illness status, diagnoses, life experiences, spiritual/religious/cultural beliefs and practices and health choices. Every data or information obtain are confidential.
I have understood the importance of understanding the knowledge of human growth and development which is cognitive, biological and socioemotional, and the knowledge of anatomy and on how to relate them to the obtained health assessment.

At the end of the health assessment the nurse should be able to analyse and interpret data obtained to draw a conclusion or summary about the client health status.

Works Cited

“Generativity, then is primarily the concern in establishing and guiding the next generation…” (E.H Erikson, 1950, p. 267).
Obesity is an independent risk factor for intensive care unit death and should be regarded as a severe comorbidity in such units (L Williams & Wilkins).

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