Head-to-Toe Assessment
For this assignment, perform a complete head-to-toe assessment on one of your chosen participants. Your analysis should include the following:
Topical headings to delineate systems.
For any system for which you do not have equipment, explain how you would do the assessment.
Detailed review of each system with normal and abnormal findings, along with normal laboratory findings for client age.
An analysis of age-specific risk reduction, health screen, and immunizations.
Your expectation of normal findings and what might indicate abnormal findings in your review of systems.
The differential diagnosis (disease) associated with possible abnormal findings.
A plan of care (including nursing diagnosis, interventions, evaluation).
Client and age-appropriate evidenced based practice strategies for health promotion.
Pharmacological treatments that can be used to address health issues for this client.
Provide your answers in a 6- to 7-page Microsoft Word document.
Support your responses with examples.
On a separate references page, cite all sources using APA format.
Use this APA Citation Helper as a convenient reference for properly citing resources.
This handout will provide you the details of formatting your essay using APA style.
You may create your essay in this APA-formatted template.
Running head: SHORT TITLE OF PAPER 1
Title of Paper
John Q. Student
South University Online
Course ID—Course Name (optional depending on instructions)
Week x, Assignment x (optional depending on instructions)
Instructor Name (optional depending on instructions)
Date (optional depending on instructions)
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Full Title of Essay
Start your first paragraph here. The best way to use this template is to read through the
entire document first. Then, delete each section as you fill it in with your essay content. This
template is formatted to meet APA’s requirements, so when you delete the sections one at a time,
you will see that your work is formatted properly. This is the introduction paragraph. Here you
want to introduce your topic and grab the reader’s attention. Your introduction paragraph should
be 4–6 sentences long and will include your thesis statement. Remember, the thesis statement
states the main focus or main idea of the entire essay and is normally the last sentence in the
introduction; however, more importantly, it should be obvious what your thesis statement is.
Begin the second paragraph here. This is your first body paragraph. Paragraphs should be
between 5–12 sentences. Your body paragraphs should begin with the paragraph’s topic, which
is the topic sentence. This topic sentence explains the main focus of this paragraph, and should
clearly relate to your thesis statement. Next, you will include supporting details. If you are using
outside sources (research) to lend credibility to your details, this is where you should include
them; most importantly, this is also where you use in-text citations to cite other people’s ideas
from your sources (Author, date). Finally, the last sentence of a body paragraph concludes the
paragraph and refers back to the paragraph’s main focus.
Begin the third paragraph here. This is your second body paragraph. Paragraphs should
be between 5–12 sentences. Your body paragraphs should begin with the paragraph’s topic,
which is the topic sentence. This topic sentence explains the main focus of this paragraph, and
should clearly relate to your thesis statement. Next, you will include supporting details. If you
are using outside sources (research) to lend credibility to your details, this is where you should
include them; most importantly, this is also where you use in-text citations to cite other people’s
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ideas from your sources (Author, date). Finally, the last sentence of a body paragraph concludes
the paragraph and refers back to the paragraph’s main focus.
Begin the fourth paragraph here. This is your third body paragraph. Paragraphs should be
between 5–12 sentences. Your body paragraphs should begin with the paragraph’s topic, which
is the topic sentence. This topic sentence explains the main focus of this paragraph, and should
clearly relate to your thesis statement. Next, you will include supporting details. If you are using
outside sources (research) to lend credibility to your details, this is where you should include
them; most importantly, this is also where you use in-text citations to cite other people’s ideas
from your sources (Author, date). Finally, the last sentence of a body paragraph concludes the
paragraph and refers back to the paragraph’s main focus.
You may have more than three body paragraphs depending on the requirements of the
essay. This template is formatted for only five paragraphs, so if you add more just begin a new
paragraph and tap the TAB key to indent. The font and margins are already pre-set for you. The
final paragraph is the conclusion paragraph. This paragraph can be shorter than the others.
Remember to wrap-up the essay for the reader. The conclusion should not introduce any new
material. Finally, you will want to refer back to your thesis statement. (On the following
References page there are templates for several types of references such as a course lecture page,
online textbook, journal article, and a website. When you create your References page, be sure to
put the entries in alphabetical order based on the author’s last name.)
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References
Author, A. A. (Date of publication). Title of article only first letter capitalized. Magazine/Journal
Title Capitalized, volume #(issue #), page range.
Author, C. C., & Author, D. D. (Year). Name of course textbook only first letter capitalized
[VitalSource Digital Version]. City, State: Publisher.
South University Online. (2014). Course ID: Title of course in sentence casing: Week x:
Specific lecture page in sentence casing. Retrieved from myeclassonline.com
Title of online article w/o author. (Date of publication). Newsletter/Website Title Capitalized.
Retrieved from URL