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Chapter p3p201 Understanding Health Assessment
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Chapter p3p202 Interviewing the Patient for the Health History
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Chapter p3p203 Taking the Health History
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Chapter p3p204 Assessing Nutrition and Anthropometric Measurements
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Chapter p3p205 Assessment Techniques
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Chapter p3p206 General Survey and Assessing Vital Signs
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Chapter p3p207 Assessing Pain
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Chapter p3p208 Assessing the Skin, Hair, and Nails
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Chapter p3p209 Assessing the Head, Face, Mouth, and Neck
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Chapter p3p2 10 p3p2 Assessing the
p3p2 p3p2 Ears 229
Chapter p3p2 11 p3p2 Assessing the
p3p2 p3p2 Eyes 250
Chapter p3p2 12 p3p2 Assessing the
p3p2 p3p2 Respiratory System p3p2 281
Chapter p3p2 13 p3p2 Assessing the
p3p2 p3p2 Cardiovascular System p3p2 308
Chapter 14 Assessing the Abdomen
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Chapter 15 Assessing the Peripheral Vascular System and Regional Lymphatic System
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Chapter 16 Assessing the Musculoskeletal System
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Chapter 17 Assessing the Neurological System
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Chapter 18 Assessing the Female Breasts, Axillae, and Reproductive System
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Chapter 19 Assessing the Male Breasts and Reproductive System
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Chapter 20 Assessing the Anus and Rectum
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Chapter 21 Assessing the Newborn
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Chapter 22 Assessing the Child and Adolescent
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Chapter 23 Assessing the Pregnant Woman
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Chapter 24 Assessing the Older Adult
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1. The World Health Organization (WHO) established a global strategy called ―Health for
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All.‖ The goal for this strategy is:
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1. All individuals to get the same health care throughout their life spans.
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2. The government to supply money to care for all the people in the world.
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3. Resources for health care to be evenly distributed and accessible. p3p2 p3p2 p3p2 p3p2 p3p2 p3p2 p3p2 p3p2 p3p2



4. Health-care providers can never deny patients health care. p3p2 p3p2 p3p2 p3p2 p3p2 p3p2 p3p2




2. Health assessment is a foundational and priority nursing skill. This essential skill
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requires registered nurses (RNs) to:
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3. You are assessing a patient with five gunshot wounds on a trauma unit. There is a
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police presence outside his door because the patient is a known drug dealer in the community.
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You know that nurses must treat all patients as persons. This is called:
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1. Caring.
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4. The science-based framework updated every 10 years by the U.S. Department of Health
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and Human Services that has set national goals and objectives for health
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promotion and disease prevention is:
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1. Healthy People. p3p2



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5. A 38-year-old male has a family history of colon cancer. His father died of colon cancer at age
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48. The doctor recommended that this patient have a colonoscopy this year. This is an example of:
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6. A patient in the hospital puts on his call light and tells the person answering that he
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―thinks he is running a fever and has stomach discomfort.‖ You are the registered
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nurse in charge. What should you do?
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1. Ask the medical assistant to go to the patient‘s room and assess his complaints.
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2. Go check to see if the patient has an order for Tylenol for a fever.
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3. Page the resident on call immediately to assess the patient.
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4. Go to the patient‘s room and assess for fever and the epigastric discomfort.
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7. You are leading an interdisciplinary team conference to discuss how to provide better
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care for a challenging patient who has behavioral problems. There are several areas
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that need to be problem solved and new ideas formulated to create an improved plan of
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care. What cognitive skills are you using?
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8. Best practice assessment techniques and instruments have been validated by:
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2. Codeof Ethics for Nurses With Interpretive Statements.
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4. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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9. Health and illness are determined by many factors. What are the determinants of health
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identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)? Select all that
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apply.
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