Recording and Requesting Appropriate Data When initially assessing a patient, nurses have an exhaustive array of tests and data they could collect. It is paramount that only essential or relevant...

Recording and Requesting Appropriate Data When initially assessing a patient, nurses have an exhaustive array of tests and data they could collect. It is paramount that only essential or relevant tests are made as gathering and waiting for irrelevant tests can be time-consuming and have significant cost implications. The possibility of gathering wrong test results also increases. Which tests would you perform on Mr McNamara and why? Write down each individual test and rationalise why this particular test would assist in establishing his illness or excluding a differential diagnosis.