Nursing Health Assessment: A Best Practice Approach
Sharon Jensen
3rd Edition
Test Banks Chapter 1
1. Which is one of the broad goals within nursing?
-To treat human responses
2. What do nursing activities that promote health and prevent disease accomplish?
-Reduce the risk of disease
-Maintain optimal functioning
-Reinforce good habits
3. The purpose of a health assessment includes what?
- Collecting information about the health status of the client
- evaluating the clients outcomes
- synthesizing collected data
4. The nurse is conducting a physical assessment. The data the nurse would collect vary
depending on what?
- The client’s acuity
5. A nurse instructor is discussing the purposes of health assessment. Which is one
purpose of health assessment?
- To establish a database against which subsequent assessments can be
measured
6. How do nurses facilitate the achievement of high level wellness with a client?
- Promoting health in a client
7. The nurse is caring for a client who, on the continuum between wellness and illness is
moving toward illness and premature death. How would the nurse know this to be true?
- The client develops signs and symptoms
8. What interventions address a focus of the Risk Reduction: Healthy People Model
developed by the US Department of Health & Human Services?
- Providing the client with a nicotine patch
- Screening for depression
- Discussing healthy food choices
- Providing information on safe sex practices
Sharon Jensen
3rd Edition
Test Banks Chapter 1
1. Which is one of the broad goals within nursing?
-To treat human responses
2. What do nursing activities that promote health and prevent disease accomplish?
-Reduce the risk of disease
-Maintain optimal functioning
-Reinforce good habits
3. The purpose of a health assessment includes what?
- Collecting information about the health status of the client
- evaluating the clients outcomes
- synthesizing collected data
4. The nurse is conducting a physical assessment. The data the nurse would collect vary
depending on what?
- The client’s acuity
5. A nurse instructor is discussing the purposes of health assessment. Which is one
purpose of health assessment?
- To establish a database against which subsequent assessments can be
measured
6. How do nurses facilitate the achievement of high level wellness with a client?
- Promoting health in a client
7. The nurse is caring for a client who, on the continuum between wellness and illness is
moving toward illness and premature death. How would the nurse know this to be true?
- The client develops signs and symptoms
8. What interventions address a focus of the Risk Reduction: Healthy People Model
developed by the US Department of Health & Human Services?
- Providing the client with a nicotine patch
- Screening for depression
- Discussing healthy food choices
- Providing information on safe sex practices
