There are thousands of ingredients used to make foods. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) maintains a list of over 3000 ingredients in its data base Everything Added to Food in the United States, many of which we use at home every day (e.g., sugar, baking soda, salt, vanilla, yeast, spices and colors).
6-2. FACTS ABOUT PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT a. Physical assessment is an organized systemic process of collecting objective data based upon a health history and head-to-toe or general systems examination. A physical assessment should be adjusted to the patient, based on his needs. It can be a complete physical assessment, an assessment of a body system, or an assessment of a body part. b. The physical assessment is the first step in the nursing process.
230 UNIT 3 Physical Assessment I nspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation are the techniques usedby the nurse to assess the patient during a physical examination. This chapterintroduces the assessment techniques and equipment used to conduct physi-cal examinations.