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    This document contains a health assessment form for evaluating a patient's head, neck, and lymph nodes. The form includes sections for health history, physical examination of the skull, face, neck, lymph nodes, trachea, and thyroid gland. Examiners are prompted to inspect, palpate, and auscultate specific areas and structures, noting any abnormalities, tenderness, range of motion issues, or other relevant exam findings.

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    This document contains a health assessment form for evaluating a patient's head, neck, and lymph nodes. The form includes sections for health history, physical examination of the skull, face, neck, lymph nodes, trachea, and thyroid gland. Examiners are prompted to inspect, palpate, and auscultate specific areas and structures, noting any abnormalities, tenderness, range of motion issues, or other relevant exam findings.

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    NCM 1234: HEALTH ASSESSMENT (RLE)

    ASSESSMENT OF HEAD, NECK & LYMPH NODES

    Name: __________________________________ Section: __________ Date: _____________


    Name of Patient: ___________________________ Age: ___________ Gender: ___________

    HEALTH HISTORY
    Assessment No Yes, Explain
    1. Any unusually frequent or unusually severe
    headaches?

    2. Any head injury?

    3. Experienced any dizziness?

    4. Any neck pain?

    5. Any lump or swelling in head or neck?

    6. Any surgery on head

    PHYSICAL EXAMINATION

    A. Inspect and palpate the Skull

    General size and contour: _____________________________________________________

    Deformities, lumps, tenderness: ________________________________________________

    Temporal artery: ____________________________________________________________

    Temporomandibular joint: ____________________________________________________

    B. Inspect the Face

    Facial expression: ____________________________________________________________

    Symmetry of structures: _______________________________________________________

    Edema: ____________________________________________________________________

    Masses or lesions:

    ____________________________________________________________

    Color and texture of skin: ______________________________________________________


    C. Inspect the Neck

    Symmetry: _________________________________________________________________

    Range of Motion, active: ______________________________________________________

    Test strength of cervical muscles: _______________________________________________

    Abnormal Pulsations: _________________________________________________________

    Enlargement of Thyroid: ______________________________________________________

    Enlargement of lymph and salivary glands: _______________________________________

    D. Palpate the lymph nodes

    Exact location: ______________________________________________________________

    Size and shape: ______________________________________________________________

    Presence or absence of tenderness: _____________________________________________

    Freely movable, adherent to deeper structures, or matted together:

    _________________________________________________________________________

    Presence of surrounding inflammation: __________________________________________

    Texture (Hard, soft, firm): _____________________________________________________

    E. Palpate the trachea: _________________________________________________________

    F. Palpate the thyroid gland: _____________________________________________________

    G. Auscultate the thyroid gland (if enlarged): _______________________________________

    Source: Udan, Josie (2009). Health assessment and physical examination: concepts and clinical application

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