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Health Assessment Test 1 Chapters 1-4 Questions & Answers
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1. Assessment: The collection of data about an individual 's health state.
2. Subjective Data: What the person says about themselves during history taking.
3. Evidence: collected body of data from lab tests and medical history
4. Objective Data: What a health professional observes by inspecting, percussing,
palpating, and auscultating during a physical exam.
5. Diagnostic Reasoning: A method of collecting and analyzing clinical information
with the following components: 1) attending to initially available cues, 2)
formulating diagnostic hypothesis, 3) gathering data relative to the tentative
hypothesis, 4) evaluating each hypothesis with the new data collected, and 5)
arriving at the final diagnosis.
6. Cue: A piece of information, a sign or symptom, or a piece of laboratory data.
7. Hypothesis: A tentative explanation for a cue or a set of cues that can be used for a
basis for further investigation.
8. Nursing Process: A method of collecting and analyzing clinical information with
the 6 main components; 1) Assessment, 2) Diagnosis, 3) Outcome Identification, 4)
Planning, 5) Implementation, and 6) Evaluation.
9. Nursing Diagnosis: Clinical judgments used to evaluate the response of the whole
person to actual or potential health problems
10. First Level Priority Problems: Emergent, life threatening problems prioritized by
A,B,C,V. A: Airway Problems
B:Breathing Problems
C: Cardiac/Circulation Problems
V: Vital Signs Concerns
11. Second Level Priority: Problems next in urgency-those requiring your prompt
intervention to forestall further deterioration.
EX: Mental status change, untreated medical problems, acute pain, acute urinary
elimination problems, abnormal lad values, or risk of infection.
12. Third Level Priority: Health problems that don't fit into more severe categories.
Such as lack of activity, rest or family coping.
13. Collaborative Problems: Problems in which the approach to treatment involves
multiple disciplines.
14. Collecting Four Types of Data: 1.Complete (Total Health) Database
2. Focused or Problem-Centered Database
3.Follow-Up Database
4. Emergency Database