For my clinic visit, I went to MD Anderson. My patient was a 67-year-old Caucasian woman. The patient was a recent widow living with her daughter. She arrived on February 10, 2014 for shortness of breath, persistent cough, congestion and fatigue. His medical diagnosis was pleural effusion. During the hospitalization the doctors found a lung mass that had caused the pleural effusion. She was preparing to be transferred to another unit on the day I performed my functional assessment (February 15, 2014) because her condition had improved and the pleural effusion was not present. They were waiting for the results of the lung biopsy to see if the mass was malignant. The two functional assessments I decided to do on my patient were the Hendrich II fall risk assessment and the DETERMINE your Nutritional Health/Nutrition Screening Index. The reason I chose the Hendrich II fall risk assessment was related to patients' use of a walker. I noticed that the patient could not move without the walker and socks. The patient also had a history of...