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Essential Health Assessment 2
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Edition Thompson Test Bank
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Chapter 1: Understanding Health Assessment
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Chapter 2: Interviewing the Patient for the Health History
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Chapter 4: Assessing Nutrition and Anthropometric
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Measurements Chapter 5: Assessment Techniques
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Chapter 6: General Survey and Assessing Vital Signs
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gg Chapter 7: Assessing Pain
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Chapter 8: Assessing the Skin, Hair, and Nails
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Chapter 9: Assessing the Head, Face, Mouth, and Neck
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gg Chapter 10: Assessing the Ears
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Chapter 11: Assessing the Eyes
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Chapter 12: Assessing the Respiratory System
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gg Chapter 13: Assessing the Cardiovascular System
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gg Chapter 14: Assessing the Abdomen
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Chapter 15: Assessing the Peripheral Vascular System and Regional Lymphatic System
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gg 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 20: Assessing the Anus and Rectum
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gg Chapter 21: Assessing the Newborn
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Chapter 22: Assessing the Child and Adolescent
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gg Chapter 23 Assessing the Pregnant Woman
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gg Chapter 24: Assessing the Older Adult
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,Chapter 1: Understanding Health Assessment
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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.
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4. Health-care providers can never deny patients health care.gg gg gg gg gg gg gg
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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1. Diagnose and treat patients. gg gg gg
2. Identify normal and abnormal findings.gg gg gg gg
3. Refer patients with abnormal findings.
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4. Counsel patients with psychosocial needs.
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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
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community. You know that nurses must treat all patients as persons. This is called:
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1. Caring.
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3. Person-centered care (PCC). gg gg
4. Standards of care. gg gg
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 promotion and
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disease prevention is:
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1. Healthy People. gg
2. Healthy People 2020. gg gg
3. U.S. Preventive Task Force.
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4. World Health Organization. gg gg
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
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example of:
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1. Primary health prevention. gg gg
, 2. Secondary health prevention. gg gg
3. Tertiary health prevention. gg gg
6. A patient in the hospital puts on his call light and tells the person answering that he ―thinks
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he is running a fever and has stomach discomfort.‖ You are the registered nurse in
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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 care
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for a challenging patient who has behavioral problems. There are several areas that need
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to be problem solved and new ideas formulated to create an improved plan of care.
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What cognitive skills are you using?
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1. Critical thinking gg
2. Clinical decision making gg gg
3. Intuitive thinking gg
4. Clinical reasoning gg
8. Best practice assessment techniques and instruments have been validated by:
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1. American Nurses Association. gg gg
2. Code of Ethics for Nurses With Interpretive Statements.
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3. Research and evidence-based practice. gg gg gg
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 apply.
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1. Genetics and biology gg gg
2. Gender and occupation gg gg
3. Individual behavior gg
4. Social environment gg
5. Physical environment gg
6. Health services gg
Essential Health Assessment 2
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Edition Thompson Test Bank
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, Table of Contents gg gg
Chapter 1: Understanding Health Assessment
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Chapter 2: Interviewing the Patient for the Health History
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gg Chapter 3: Taking the Health History
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Chapter 4: Assessing Nutrition and Anthropometric
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Measurements Chapter 5: Assessment Techniques
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Chapter 6: General Survey and Assessing Vital Signs
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gg Chapter 7: Assessing Pain
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Chapter 8: Assessing the Skin, Hair, and Nails
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Chapter 9: Assessing the Head, Face, Mouth, and Neck
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gg Chapter 10: Assessing the Ears
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Chapter 11: Assessing the Eyes
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Chapter 12: Assessing the Respiratory System
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gg Chapter 13: Assessing the Cardiovascular System
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gg Chapter 14: Assessing the Abdomen
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Chapter 15: Assessing the Peripheral Vascular System and Regional Lymphatic System
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gg 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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gg Chapter 19: Assessing the Male Breasts and Reproductive System
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Chapter 20: Assessing the Anus and Rectum
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gg Chapter 21: Assessing the Newborn
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Chapter 22: Assessing the Child and Adolescent
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gg Chapter 23 Assessing the Pregnant Woman
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gg Chapter 24: Assessing the Older Adult
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,Chapter 1: Understanding Health Assessment
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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.
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4. Health-care providers can never deny patients health care.gg gg gg gg gg gg gg
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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1. Diagnose and treat patients. gg gg gg
2. Identify normal and abnormal findings.gg gg gg gg
3. Refer patients with abnormal findings.
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4. Counsel patients with psychosocial needs.
gg gg gg gg
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
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community. You know that nurses must treat all patients as persons. This is called:
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1. Caring.
2. Holistic process. gg
3. Person-centered care (PCC). gg gg
4. Standards of care. gg gg
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 promotion and
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disease prevention is:
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1. Healthy People. gg
2. Healthy People 2020. gg gg
3. U.S. Preventive Task Force.
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4. World Health Organization. gg gg
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
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example of:
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1. Primary health prevention. gg gg
, 2. Secondary health prevention. gg gg
3. Tertiary health prevention. gg gg
6. A patient in the hospital puts on his call light and tells the person answering that he ―thinks
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he is running a fever and has stomach discomfort.‖ You are the registered nurse in
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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 care
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for a challenging patient who has behavioral problems. There are several areas that need
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to be problem solved and new ideas formulated to create an improved plan of care.
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What cognitive skills are you using?
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1. Critical thinking gg
2. Clinical decision making gg gg
3. Intuitive thinking gg
4. Clinical reasoning gg
8. Best practice assessment techniques and instruments have been validated by:
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1. American Nurses Association. gg gg
2. Code of Ethics for Nurses With Interpretive Statements.
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3. Research and evidence-based practice. gg gg gg
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 apply.
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1. Genetics and biology gg gg
2. Gender and occupation gg gg
3. Individual behavior gg
4. Social environment gg
5. Physical environment gg
6. Health services gg
