Test Bank for Physical Examination and Health
Assessment 9th Edition Jarvis All Chapters | A+
ULTIMATE GUIDE 2023
Objective data - ANSWER: What the health professional observes by inspecting,
percussing, palpating, and auscultating during the physical examination.
Subjective data - ANSWER: What the person says about him or herself during history
taking.
Data base - ANSWER: The combination of the patient's record, laboratory studies,
objective data, and subjective data.
Intuition - ANSWER: Responses characterized by pattern recognition where expert
nurses attend to a pattern of assessment data and act without consciously labeling it.
Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) - ANSWER: A systematic approach to practice that
emphasizes the use of best evidence in combination with the clinician's experience,
as well as patient preferences and values, when making decisions about care and
treatment.
First-level priority problems - ANSWER: Emergent, life threatening, and immediate
problems (e.g., establishing an airway, supporting breathing, maintaining circulation,
monitoring abnormal vital signs).
Second-level priority problems - ANSWER: Problems that require prompt
intervention to forestall further deterioration (e.g., mental status change, acute pain,
abnormal laboratory values, risks to safety or security).
Clustering related cues - ANSWER: A critical thinking skill that helps the nurse see
relationships among the data.
Cognitive Level: Understanding - ANSWER: The level of cognitive processing that
involves comprehension of information.
Cognitive Level: Remembering - ANSWER: The level of cognitive processing that
involves recalling information.
Cognitive Level: Analyzing - ANSWER: The level of cognitive processing that involves
breaking down information into parts and examining it.
Cognitive Level: Applying - ANSWER: The level of cognitive processing that involves
using information in new situations.
Management of Care - ANSWER: Client Needs category focusing on ensuring safe
and effective care environment.
, Nurse's next action when unsure of a sound heard - ANSWER: Validate the data by
asking a coworker to listen to the breath sounds.
Novice nurses' decision-making - ANSWER: Novice nurses are more likely to make
their decisions using a set of defined, structured rules.
Expert practitioners - ANSWER: Use intuitive links based on their experience and
knowledge.
Patient's preferences in EBP - ANSWER: Patient's own preferences are important
when making decisions about care and treatment.
Critical thinking skill: Validation - ANSWER: The process of confirming the accuracy of
data.
Critical thinking skill: Identifying gaps in data - ANSWER: The process of recognizing
missing information that is necessary for decision-making.
Critical thinking skill: Distinguishing relevant from irrelevant - ANSWER: The ability to
differentiate between important and unimportant information.
Patient with postoperative pain - ANSWER: An example of a first-level priority
problem.
Newly diagnosed patient with diabetes - ANSWER: An example of a second-level
priority problem requiring diabetic teaching.
Individual with a small laceration - ANSWER: An example of a lower priority problem
compared to respiratory distress.
Individual with shortness of breath - ANSWER: An example of a first-level priority
problem.
Abnormal laboratory values - ANSWER: An example of a second-level priority
problem.
Nursing diagnosis - ANSWER: An accurate nursing diagnosis provides the basis for
the selection of nursing interventions to achieve outcomes for which the nurse is
accountable.
Nursing process - ANSWER: A sequential method of problem solving that includes
assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning, implementation, and
evaluation.
Diagnostic reasoning - ANSWER: Calls for the nurse to formulate a diagnostic
hypothesis.
Assessment 9th Edition Jarvis All Chapters | A+
ULTIMATE GUIDE 2023
Objective data - ANSWER: What the health professional observes by inspecting,
percussing, palpating, and auscultating during the physical examination.
Subjective data - ANSWER: What the person says about him or herself during history
taking.
Data base - ANSWER: The combination of the patient's record, laboratory studies,
objective data, and subjective data.
Intuition - ANSWER: Responses characterized by pattern recognition where expert
nurses attend to a pattern of assessment data and act without consciously labeling it.
Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) - ANSWER: A systematic approach to practice that
emphasizes the use of best evidence in combination with the clinician's experience,
as well as patient preferences and values, when making decisions about care and
treatment.
First-level priority problems - ANSWER: Emergent, life threatening, and immediate
problems (e.g., establishing an airway, supporting breathing, maintaining circulation,
monitoring abnormal vital signs).
Second-level priority problems - ANSWER: Problems that require prompt
intervention to forestall further deterioration (e.g., mental status change, acute pain,
abnormal laboratory values, risks to safety or security).
Clustering related cues - ANSWER: A critical thinking skill that helps the nurse see
relationships among the data.
Cognitive Level: Understanding - ANSWER: The level of cognitive processing that
involves comprehension of information.
Cognitive Level: Remembering - ANSWER: The level of cognitive processing that
involves recalling information.
Cognitive Level: Analyzing - ANSWER: The level of cognitive processing that involves
breaking down information into parts and examining it.
Cognitive Level: Applying - ANSWER: The level of cognitive processing that involves
using information in new situations.
Management of Care - ANSWER: Client Needs category focusing on ensuring safe
and effective care environment.
, Nurse's next action when unsure of a sound heard - ANSWER: Validate the data by
asking a coworker to listen to the breath sounds.
Novice nurses' decision-making - ANSWER: Novice nurses are more likely to make
their decisions using a set of defined, structured rules.
Expert practitioners - ANSWER: Use intuitive links based on their experience and
knowledge.
Patient's preferences in EBP - ANSWER: Patient's own preferences are important
when making decisions about care and treatment.
Critical thinking skill: Validation - ANSWER: The process of confirming the accuracy of
data.
Critical thinking skill: Identifying gaps in data - ANSWER: The process of recognizing
missing information that is necessary for decision-making.
Critical thinking skill: Distinguishing relevant from irrelevant - ANSWER: The ability to
differentiate between important and unimportant information.
Patient with postoperative pain - ANSWER: An example of a first-level priority
problem.
Newly diagnosed patient with diabetes - ANSWER: An example of a second-level
priority problem requiring diabetic teaching.
Individual with a small laceration - ANSWER: An example of a lower priority problem
compared to respiratory distress.
Individual with shortness of breath - ANSWER: An example of a first-level priority
problem.
Abnormal laboratory values - ANSWER: An example of a second-level priority
problem.
Nursing diagnosis - ANSWER: An accurate nursing diagnosis provides the basis for
the selection of nursing interventions to achieve outcomes for which the nurse is
accountable.
Nursing process - ANSWER: A sequential method of problem solving that includes
assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning, implementation, and
evaluation.
Diagnostic reasoning - ANSWER: Calls for the nurse to formulate a diagnostic
hypothesis.
