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Correspondence to Author: Shruti Shirke. 

Dept. of Neuroscience Nursing, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

DOI: 10.52338/tjocm.2025.4417

Abstract:

History taking is a key component of patient assessment, enabling the delivery of high-quality care. Understanding the complexity and processes involved in history-taking allows nurses to understand patients’ problems better. Care priorities can be identified and the most appropriate interventions can be taken. This article discusses that history taking is more about skill and not just about filling Performa, how history taking is a continuous process, and how history taking in nursing is different from history taking by other health care professionals.
Conclusion: History taking in nursing is different from the history taking by other health personnel, data collection is focused on only one aspect patient, likewise for physicians it is only medical or surgical history. For dieticians; they are focused on body type disease and eating choices etc. but for Nurses; history taking is the combination of overall physical and mental health, patient’s comfort, and finding the individual normal which can be abnormal for other patients. To reach this level of competence, Sound interaction with the patients and their relatives as well as all the health care personnel is necessary.

Keywords: Nursing, Nursing skill, History taking, Health History

Citation:

Dr.Shruti Shirke, The subtle art of history taking in Nursing. The Journal of Clinical Medicine 2025.