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Chapter 1: Understanding Health Assessment
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Chapter 2: Interviewing the Patient for the Health History
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Chapter 4: Assessing Nutrition and Anthropometric Measurements Ch
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apter 5: Assessment Techniques
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Chapter 6: General Survey and Assessing Vital Signs Ch
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apter 7: Assessing Pain
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Chapter 8: Assessing the Skin, Hair, and Nails
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Chapter 9: Assessing the Head, Face, Mouth, and Neck
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Chapter 10: Assessing the Ears
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Chapter 11: Assessing the Eyes
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Chapter 12: Assessing the Respiratory System
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Chapter 13: Assessing the Cardiovascular System
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w# Chapter 14: Assessing the Abdomen
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Chapter 15: Assessing the Peripheral Vascular System and Regional Lymphatic Syste
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m Chapter 16: Assessing the Musculoskeletal System
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Chapter 17: Assessing the Neurological System
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Chapter 18: Assessing the Female Breasts, Axillae, and Reproductive System Ch
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apter 19: Assessing the Male Breasts and Reproductive System
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Chapter 20: Assessing the Anus and Rectum Cha
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pter 21: Assessing the Newborn
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Chapter 22: Assessing the Child and Adolescent
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Chapter 23 Assessing the Pregnant Woman Cha
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pter 24: Assessing the Older Adult
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,Chapter 1: Understanding Health Assessment
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1. The World Health Organization (WHO) established a global strategy called “Health for
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All.” The goal for this strategy is:
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1. All individuals to get the same health care throughout their life spans.
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2. The government to supply money to care for all the people in the world.
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3. Resources for health care to be evenly distributed and accessible.
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4. Health-care providers can never deny patients health care.
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2. Health assessment is a foundational and priority nursing skill. This essential skill requ
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ires registered nurses (RNs) to:
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1. Diagnose and treat patients. w# w# w#
2. Identify normal and abnormal findings.
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3. Refer patients with abnormal findings.
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4. Counsel patients with psychosocial needs.
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3. You are assessing a patient with five gunshot wounds on a trauma unit. There is a
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police presence outside his door because the patient is a known drug dealer in the com
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munity. You know that nurses must treat all patients as persons. This is called:
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1. Caring.
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4. The science-
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based framework updated every 10 years by the U.S. Department of Health and Human S
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ervices that has set national goals and objectives for health promotion and disease preven
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tion is:
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3. U.S. Preventive Task Force.
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4. World Health Organization.
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5. A 38-year-old male has a family history of colon cancer. His father died of colon cancer at age
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48. The doctor recommended that this patient have a colonoscopy this year. This is an exa
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6. A patient in the hospital puts on his call light and tells the person answering that he “thi
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nks he is running a fever and has stomach discomfort.” You are the registered nurse in ch
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arge. What should you do?
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1. Ask the medical assistant to go to the patient’s room and assess his complaints.
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2. Go check to see if the patient has an order for Tylenol for a fever.
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3. Page the resident on call immediately to assess the patient.
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4. Go to the patient’s room and assess for fever and the epigastric discomfort.
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7. You are leading an interdisciplinary team conference to discuss how to provide better car
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e for a challenging patient who has behavioral problems. There are several areas that need
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to be problem solved and new ideas formulated to create an improved plan of care. What
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8. Best practice assessment techniques and instruments have been validated by:
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1. American Nurses Association. w# w#
2. Code of Ethics for Nurses With Interpretive Statements.
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3. Research and evidence-based practice. w# w# w#
4. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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9. Health and illness are determined by many factors. What are the determinants of health
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identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)? Select all that apply.
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1. Genetics and biology w# w#
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6. Health services w#
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on Thompson Test Bank
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, Table of Contents w# w#
Chapter 1: Understanding Health Assessment
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Chapter 2: Interviewing the Patient for the Health History
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w# Chapter 3: Taking the Health History
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Chapter 4: Assessing Nutrition and Anthropometric Measurements Ch
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apter 5: Assessment Techniques
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Chapter 6: General Survey and Assessing Vital Signs Ch
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apter 7: Assessing Pain
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Chapter 8: Assessing the Skin, Hair, and Nails
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Chapter 9: Assessing the Head, Face, Mouth, and Neck
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Chapter 10: Assessing the Ears
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Chapter 11: Assessing the Eyes
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Chapter 12: Assessing the Respiratory System
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Chapter 13: Assessing the Cardiovascular System
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w# Chapter 14: Assessing the Abdomen
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Chapter 15: Assessing the Peripheral Vascular System and Regional Lymphatic Syste
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m Chapter 16: Assessing the Musculoskeletal System
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Chapter 17: Assessing the Neurological System
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Chapter 18: Assessing the Female Breasts, Axillae, and Reproductive System Ch
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apter 19: Assessing the Male Breasts and Reproductive System
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Chapter 20: Assessing the Anus and Rectum Cha
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pter 21: Assessing the Newborn
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Chapter 22: Assessing the Child and Adolescent
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Chapter 23 Assessing the Pregnant Woman Cha
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pter 24: Assessing the Older Adult
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,Chapter 1: Understanding Health Assessment
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1. The World Health Organization (WHO) established a global strategy called “Health for
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All.” The goal for this strategy is:
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1. All individuals to get the same health care throughout their life spans.
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2. The government to supply money to care for all the people in the world.
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3. Resources for health care to be evenly distributed and accessible.
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4. Health-care providers can never deny patients health care.
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2. Health assessment is a foundational and priority nursing skill. This essential skill requ
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ires registered nurses (RNs) to:
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1. Diagnose and treat patients. w# w# w#
2. Identify normal and abnormal findings.
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3. Refer patients with abnormal findings.
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4. Counsel patients with psychosocial needs.
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3. You are assessing a patient with five gunshot wounds on a trauma unit. There is a
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GRADESMORE.COM
police presence outside his door because the patient is a known drug dealer in the com
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munity. You know that nurses must treat all patients as persons. This is called:
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1. Caring.
2. Holistic process. w#
3. Person-centered care (PCC). w# w#
4. Standards of care. w# w#
4. The science-
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based framework updated every 10 years by the U.S. Department of Health and Human S
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ervices that has set national goals and objectives for health promotion and disease preven
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tion is:
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1. Healthy People. w#
2. Healthy People 2020. w# w#
3. U.S. Preventive Task Force.
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4. World Health Organization.
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5. A 38-year-old male has a family history of colon cancer. His father died of colon cancer at age
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48. The doctor recommended that this patient have a colonoscopy this year. This is an exa
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mple of: w#
1. Primary health prevention. w# w#
, 2. Secondary health prevention. w# w#
3. Tertiary health prevention. w# w#
6. A patient in the hospital puts on his call light and tells the person answering that he “thi
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nks he is running a fever and has stomach discomfort.” You are the registered nurse in ch
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arge. What should you do?
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1. Ask the medical assistant to go to the patient’s room and assess his complaints.
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2. Go check to see if the patient has an order for Tylenol for a fever.
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3. Page the resident on call immediately to assess the patient.
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4. Go to the patient’s room and assess for fever and the epigastric discomfort.
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7. You are leading an interdisciplinary team conference to discuss how to provide better car
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e for a challenging patient who has behavioral problems. There are several areas that need
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to be problem solved and new ideas formulated to create an improved plan of care. What
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cognitive skills are you using? w# w# w# w#
1. Critical thinking w#
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3. Intuitive thinking w#
4. Clinical reasoning w#
8. Best practice assessment techniques and instruments have been validated by:
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1. American Nurses Association. w# w#
2. Code of Ethics for Nurses With Interpretive Statements.
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3. Research and evidence-based practice. w# w# w#
4. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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9. Health and illness are determined by many factors. What are the determinants of health
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identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)? Select all that apply.
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1. Genetics and biology w# w#
2. Gender and occupation w# w#
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