1. Assessment can ensure interventions can be planned that are underpinned by a shared understanding of both____________ and needs.

2. Assessment can include a wealth of information that helps both the nurse and the client/service user make sense of their experience and priorities needed to help facilitate__________.

3. The nurse needs to be able to engender hope, optimism and empowerment and a focus on ___________strategies.

4. Nurses as part of the assessment need to be able to understand the process of__________ down large amounts of assessment information from a broad range of sources and covering a wide range of areas.

5. Key to the interpretation of findings is an ability to understand the interplay and inter relationship between needs and problems and being able to use the information to___________ issues and to understand priorities.

6. The use of assessment scales that help clarify and give more understanding of current issues and can add depth of understanding and can determine_______ on which to focus.

7. Clarifying assessments fall largely into three categories namely; need, symptoms and ___________.