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.
Introduction. 1  Assessment and quantification of physical and psychological symptoms is an integral part of everyday clinical practice for all health care professionals. It is essential to have standardized measures available to meaningfully compare symptom burden between individual patients and patient groups.