For my clinic, I went to MD Anderson. My patient was a 67-year-old Caucasian woman. The patient was a recent widow who lived with her daughter. She arrived on February 10, 2014 with shortness of breath, persistent cough, congestion and fatigue. His medical diagnosis was pleural effusion. During his hospitalization, doctors discovered a lung mass causing the pleural effusion. She was about to be transferred to another unit the day I did my functional assessment (February 15, 2014) because her condition had improved and the pleural effusion was not present. They were waiting for the lung biopsy results 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 DETERMINATION of Your Nutritional Health/Nutritional 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 her walker and non-slip socks. The patient also had a history of...