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    This document discusses techniques for nurses to ask patients about the dimensions of their symptoms. It provides vocabulary like dull, stabbing, sharp, and aching to describe pain quality. It lists expressions for asking about location, quality, severity, timing, setting, and aggravating/alleviating factors. An example conversation demonstrates the nurse asking questions to determine the patient has chest pain that moves, is dull, worsens with exercise/food, and may be angina.

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    This document discusses techniques for nurses to ask patients about the dimensions of their symptoms. It provides vocabulary like dull, stabbing, sharp, and aching to describe pain quality. It lists expressions for asking about location, quality, severity, timing, setting, and aggravating/alleviating factors. An example conversation demonstrates the nurse asking questions to determine the patient has chest pain that moves, is dull, worsens with exercise/food, and may be angina.

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    This document discusses techniques for nurses to ask patients about the dimensions of their symptoms. It provides vocabulary like dull, stabbing, sharp, and aching to describe pain quality. It lists expressions for asking about location, quality, severity, timing, setting, and aggravating/alleviating factors. An example conversation demonstrates the nurse asking questions to determine the patient has chest pain that moves, is dull, worsens with exercise/food, and may be angina.

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    Asking The Dimensions of Symptom

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    This document discusses techniques for nurses to ask patients about the dimensions of their symptoms. It provides vocabulary like dull, stabbing, sharp, and aching to describe pain quality. It lists expressions for asking about location, quality, severity, timing, setting, and aggravating/alleviating factors. An example conversation demonstrates the nurse asking questions to determine the patient has chest pain that moves, is dull, worsens with exercise/food, and may be angina.

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    ASKING THE DIMENSIONS

    OF SYMPTOM
    Kadek Maya Cyntia Dewi, S.S.,M.Pd
    LANGUAGE COMPETENCY
    Objectives :
    1. Participants will be able to give communicative response to patient’s complaints.
    2. Participants will be able to ask the dimensions of symptom

    Related nursing skill : Communication techniques on asking dimensions of symptom


    Vocabulary
    1. Dull : Rasa tidak terlalu sakit tetapi berlangsung terus
    2. Stabbing : Sakit yang berdenyut seperti pukulan
    3. Sharp : Rasa sakit yang menusuk-nusuk
    4. Aching : Rasa sakit yang berlangsung terus menerus
    5. Aggravating Factors : Faktor-faktor yang memberatkan (penyakit)
    6. Alleviating Factors : Faktor-faktor yang meringankan (penyakit)
    EXPRESSIONS : ASKING THE DIMENSIONS OF SYMPTOM

    Language Focus Expression

    1. Location • Where do you feel it?

    • Does it move around?

    • Show me where.

    2. Quality or Character • What is it like? Is it sharp, dull,

    stabbing, aching?

    • Do you feel……..?
    EXPRESSIONS : ASKING THE DIMENSIONS OF SYMPTOM

    Language Focus Expression

    3. Severity • In the scale of 0 to 10, with 10 the worst, how would you rate what

    you feel right now?

    • What is the worst it has been?

    • Does this interfere your usual activities? In that ways.

    4. Timing • When did you first notice it?

    • How long does it last?

    • How often does it happen?


    EXPRESSIONS : ASKING THE DIMENSIONS OF SYMPTOM

    Language Focus Expression

    5. Setting • Does it occur in a particular place or

    under certain circumstances?

    6. Aggravating or Alleviating Factors • What makes it better?

    • What makes it worse?

    • When does it change?

    • Have you noticed other changes

    associated with this?


    Conversation
    Patient : Nurse, I have a pain in my chest.
    Nurse : When did you first notice it?
    Patient : It started a week ago, after having exercises.
    Nurse : Does it move around?
    Patient : Yes, it moves to the throat and upper jaw
    Nurse : What is it like? Sharp, dull, stabbing, aching?
    Patient : I feel dull pain
    Nurse : On scale of 0 to 10, with 10 as the worst, how would you rate what you feel right now?
    Patient : I think it is 6
    Nurse : What is the worst it has been?
    Patient : It’s 8
    Nurse : Does it occur in a particular place or under certain circumstances?
    Patient : Yes, it occurs in a cold weather or after heavy meals
    Nurse : What makes it worse?
    Patient : When I take heavy exercise. What health problem do I have, nurse?
    Nurse : You may have angina, but let me consult to your doctor.
    DULL ACHING AGGRAVATING
    DULL ACHING AGGRAVATING

    SEVERITY
    SEVERITY
    ALLEVIATING
    ALLEVIATING

    SYMPTOM DIMENSION ANGINA


    SYMPTOM DIMENSION ANGINA

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