Promotion, Disease Prevention, Subjective Data, Objective Data, Complete
Database, Problem-Centered Database, Follow-Up Database, Emergency
Database, Nursing Diagnosis, Outcome Identification, Planning, Implementation,
Evaluation, Diagnostic Reasoning, Hypothetico-Deductive Process, Clinical
Judgment, Priority Setting, First-Level Problems, Second-Level Problems, Third-
Level Problems, Collaborative Problems, Evidence-Based Practice, Clinical
Decision Making, Patient Preferences, Risk Assessment, Lifestyle Behaviors,
Culture and Values, Family and Social Roles, Self-Care, Health Screening,
Preventive Counseling, and Emerging Minority Populations Exam Questions
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What does collecting health promotion data allow the examiner to do?
It allows the examiner to personalize risk reduction and health promotion information while
reinforcing positive behaviors already in place
What is an assessment?
The collection of data about the individuals health state
What is subjective data?
What the person says about themselves during history taking (i.e. pain, nausea, headache)
, What is objective data?
What you as the health professional observe by inspecting, percussing, palpating, and
auscultating during the physical examination (i.e. temperature, lesions, blood pressure)
What elements form the database?
Subjective data, objective data, the patient's record, and laboratory studies
What is the purpose of an assessment?
To make a clinical judgement or diagnosis about the patient's health state, response to actual or
potential health problems, and life processes
What is diagnostic reasoning?
Diagnostic reasoning is the process of analyzing health data and drawing conclusions to identify
diagnoses
What are the 4 major components of the hypothetico-deductive process?
(1) attending to initially available cues
(2) formulating diagnostic hypotheses
(3) gathering data relative to the tentative hypothesis
(4) evaluating such hypothesis with the new data collected