NUR2092 Health Assessment Final Exam QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS|A GRADE PASS GUARANTEE!!

NUR2092 Health Assessment Final Exam QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS|A GRADE PASS GUARANTEE!! 1. The nurse is preparing to conduct a health history. Explain this to the patient. Answer: The purpose of a health history is to provide a database of subjective information about the patient's past and current health history. You might say to the patient, "I will be asking you questions about your past and present health." This information will help the provider along with the physical exam (objective data) to develop a diagnosis or health status. 2. The nurse is evaluating the reliability of a patient's responses, which of these statements would be correct? The patient: Provided consistent information and therefore is reliable 3. A patient tells the nurse that she has had abdominal pain for the past week. What would be the nurse's best response? "Can you point to where it hurts?" 4. A 29-year-old woman tells the nurse that she has "excruciating pain" in her back. Which would be the nurse's appropriate response to the woman's statement? "How would you say the pain affects your ability to do your daily activities?" 5. A patient tells the nurse that he is allergic to penicillin. What would be the nurse's best response to this information? "Describe what happens (or the reaction) to you when you take Penicillin." 6. The nurse is taking a family history. Important diseases or problems about which the patient should be specifically asked include: Mental illness. 7. The review of systems provides the nurse with... Information regarding health promotion practices, the information helps to evaluate the past and present health state of each body system, to obtain any data that may have been omitted in the section about present illness, and to evaluate health promotion and teaching opportunities. 8. Which of these statements represents subjective data the nurse obtained from the patient regarding the patient's skin? Patient denies any color change