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Chapter 01: Evidence-Based Assessmen J 2
Chapter 02: Cultural Assessment 15
Chapter 03: The Interview 31
Chapter 04: The Complete Health History 49
Chapter 05: Mental Status Assessmen Chapter
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06: Substance Use Assessment 80
Chapter 07: Domestic and Family Violence Assessment 86
Chapter 08: Assessmen Techniques and Safety in the Clinical Setting
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Chapter 09: General Survey and Measurement 111
Chapter 10: Vital Signs 118
Chapter 11: Pain Assessment 133
Chapter 12: Nutrition Assessmen J 141
Chapter 13: Skin, Hair, and Nails 155
Chapter 14: Head, Face, Neck, and Regional Lymphatics 176
Chapter 15: Eyes 194
Chapter 16: Ears 211
Chapter 17: Nose, Mouth, and Throat 228
Chapter 18: Breasts, Axillae, and Regional Lymphatics 246
Chapter 19: Thorax and Lungs 266
Chapter 20: Hear and Neck Vessels
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Chapter 21: Peripheral Vascular System and Lymphatic System 303
Chapter 22: Abdomen 320
Chapter 23: Musculoskeletal System 337
Chapter 24: Neurologic System 358
Chapter 25: Male Genitourinary System 382
Chapter 26: Anus, Rectum, and Prostate 400
Chapter 27: Female Genitourinary System 414
Chapter 28: The Complete Health Assessment: Adult 436
Chapter 29: The Complete Physical Assessment: Infant, Child, and Adolescen J 449
Chapter 30: Bedside Assessmen and Electronic Documentation
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Chapter 31: The Pregnan Woman
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Chapter 32: Functional Assessmen of the Older Adult
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Chapter 01: Evidence-Based Assessment
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1. After completing an initial assessment of a patient, the nurse has charted that his respirations are eupneic and his
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pulse is 58 beats per minute. These types of data would be:
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a. Objective.
b. Reflective.
c. Subjective.
d. Introspective.
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Objective data are what the health professional observes by inspecting, percussing, palpating, and auscultating during
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the physical examination. Subjective data is what the person says about him or herself during history taking. The
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terms reflective and introspective are not used to describe data.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Understanding (Comprehension)
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MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
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2. Apatient tells the nurse that he is very n e r v No uUsR, SisIN
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Subjective data are what the person says about him or herself during history taking. Objective data are what the
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health professional observes by inspecting, percussing, palpating, and auscultating during the physical
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examination. The terms reflective and introspective are not used to describe data.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Understanding (Comprehension)
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3. The patients record, laboratory studies, objective data, and subjective data combine to form the:
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a. Data base. J
b. Admitting data. J
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c. Financial statement. J
d. Discharge summary. J
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Together with the patients record and laboratory studies, the objective and subjective data form the data base. The
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other items are not part of the patients record, laboratory studies, or data.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering (Knowledge)
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4. When listening to a patients breath sounds, the nurse is unsure of a sound that is heard. The nurses next action
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b. Document the sound exactly as it was heard. J J J J J J J
c. Validate the data by asking a coworker to listen to the breath sounds. J J J J J J J J J J J J
d. Assess again in 20 minutes to note whether the sound is still present.
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When unsure of a sound heard while listening to a patients breath sounds, the nurse validates the data to ensure accuracy.
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If the nurse has less experience in an area, then he or she asks an expert to listen.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Analyzing (Analysis)
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5. The nurseisconducting aclassfornew graduate nurses. Duringtheteaching session,the nurse should keep in mind
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that novice nurses, without a background of skills and experience from which to draw, are more likely to make their
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a. Intuition.
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d. Advice from supervisors. J J
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Novice nurses operate from a set of defined, structured rules. The expert practitioner uses intuitive links. DIF:
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6. Expert nurses learn to attend to a pattern of assessment data and act without consciously labeling it. These
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a. Intuition.
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c. Clinical knowledge. J
d. Diagnostic reasoning. J
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Intuition is characterized by pattern recognitionexpert nurses learn to attend to a pattern of assessment data and act
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without consciously labeling it. The other options are not correct.
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7. The nurse is reviewing information about evidence-based practice (EBP). Which statement best reflects EBP?
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b. EBP is simply the use of best practice techniques for the treatment of patients.
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c. EBP emphasizes the use of best evidence with the clinicians experience.
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d. The patients own preferences are not important with EBP.
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EBP is a systematic approach to practice that emphasizes the use of best evidence in combination with the clinicians
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experience, as well as patient preferences and values, when making decisions about care and treatment. EBP is
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more than simply using the best practice techniques to treat patients, and questioning tradition is important when no
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compelling and supportive research evidence exists.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Applying (Application)
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8. The nurse is conducting a class on priority setting for a group of new graduate nurses. Which is an example of a
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first-level priority problem? J J
a. Patient with postoperative pain J J J
b. Newly diagnosed patient with diabetes who needs diabetic teaching
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