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a. Initial Assessment
• An initial assessment, also called an admission assessment, is performed when the client
enters a health care from a health care agency.
• The purposes
➢to evaluate the client’s health status
➢to identify functional health patterns that are problematic
➢to provide an in-depth, comprehensive database, which is critical for evaluating changes in
the client’s health status in subsequent assessments.
