Test Bank Essential Health Assessment 2nd
Edition, By Janice Thompson All Chapters 1-24
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, Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Understanding Health Assessment
Chapter 2: Interviewing the Patient for the Health History
Chapter 3: Taking the Health History
Chapter 4: Assessing Nutrition and Anthropometric Measurements Chapter
5: Assessment Techniques
Chapter 6: General Survey and Assessing Vital Signs Chapter 7:
Assessing Pain
Chapter 8: Assessing the Skin, Hair, and Nails
Chapter 9: Assessing the Head, Face, Mouth, and Neck Chapter
10: Assessing the Ears
Chapter 11: Assessing the Eyes
Chapter 12: Assessing the Respiratory System Chapter
13: Assessing the Cardiovascular System Chapter 14:
Assessing the Abdomen
Chapter 15: Assessing the Peripheral Vascular System and Regional Lymphatic System Chapter
16: Assessing the Musculoskeletal System
Chapter 17: Assessing the Neurological System
Chapter 18: Assessing the Female Breasts, Axillae, and Reproductive System Chapter 19:
Assessing the Male Breasts and Reproductive System
Chapter 20: Assessing the Anus and Rectum Chapter
21: Assessing the Newborn
Chapter 22: Assessing the Child and Adolescent
Chapter 23 Assessing the Pregnant Woman Chapter
24: Assessing the Older Adult
, Chapter 1: Understanding Health Assessment
1. The World Health Organization (WHO) established a global strategy called Health for
goal for this strategy is:
1. All individuals to get the same health care throughout their life spans.
2. The government to supply money to care for all the people in the world.
3. Resources for health care to be evenly distributed and accessible.
4. Health-care providers can never deny patients health care.
2. Health assessment is a foundational and priority nursing skill. This essential skill requires
registered nurses (RNs) to:
1. Diagnose and treat patients.
2. Identify normal and abnormal findings.
3. Refer patients with abnormal findings.
4. Counsel patients with psychosocial needs.
3. You are assessing a patient with five gunshot wounds on a trauma unit. There is a police
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presence outside his door because the patient is a known drug dealer in the community. You know
that nurses must treat all patients as persons. This is called:
1. Caring.
2. Holistic process.
3. Person-centered care (PCC).
4. Standards of care.
4. The science-based framework updated every 10 years by the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services that has set national goals and objectives for health promotion and disease
prevention is:
1. Healthy People.
2. Healthy People 2020.
3. U.S. Preventive Task Force.
4. World Health Organization.
5. A 38-year-old male has a family history of colon cancer. His father died of colon cancer at age
48. The doctor recommended that this patient have a colonoscopy this year. This is an example of:
1. Primary health prevention.
Edition, By Janice Thompson All Chapters 1-24
COVERED.
,
, Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Understanding Health Assessment
Chapter 2: Interviewing the Patient for the Health History
Chapter 3: Taking the Health History
Chapter 4: Assessing Nutrition and Anthropometric Measurements Chapter
5: Assessment Techniques
Chapter 6: General Survey and Assessing Vital Signs Chapter 7:
Assessing Pain
Chapter 8: Assessing the Skin, Hair, and Nails
Chapter 9: Assessing the Head, Face, Mouth, and Neck Chapter
10: Assessing the Ears
Chapter 11: Assessing the Eyes
Chapter 12: Assessing the Respiratory System Chapter
13: Assessing the Cardiovascular System Chapter 14:
Assessing the Abdomen
Chapter 15: Assessing the Peripheral Vascular System and Regional Lymphatic System Chapter
16: Assessing the Musculoskeletal System
Chapter 17: Assessing the Neurological System
Chapter 18: Assessing the Female Breasts, Axillae, and Reproductive System Chapter 19:
Assessing the Male Breasts and Reproductive System
Chapter 20: Assessing the Anus and Rectum Chapter
21: Assessing the Newborn
Chapter 22: Assessing the Child and Adolescent
Chapter 23 Assessing the Pregnant Woman Chapter
24: Assessing the Older Adult
, Chapter 1: Understanding Health Assessment
1. The World Health Organization (WHO) established a global strategy called Health for
goal for this strategy is:
1. All individuals to get the same health care throughout their life spans.
2. The government to supply money to care for all the people in the world.
3. Resources for health care to be evenly distributed and accessible.
4. Health-care providers can never deny patients health care.
2. Health assessment is a foundational and priority nursing skill. This essential skill requires
registered nurses (RNs) to:
1. Diagnose and treat patients.
2. Identify normal and abnormal findings.
3. Refer patients with abnormal findings.
4. Counsel patients with psychosocial needs.
3. You are assessing a patient with five gunshot wounds on a trauma unit. There is a police
GRADESMORE.COM
presence outside his door because the patient is a known drug dealer in the community. You know
that nurses must treat all patients as persons. This is called:
1. Caring.
2. Holistic process.
3. Person-centered care (PCC).
4. Standards of care.
4. The science-based framework updated every 10 years by the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services that has set national goals and objectives for health promotion and disease
prevention is:
1. Healthy People.
2. Healthy People 2020.
3. U.S. Preventive Task Force.
4. World Health Organization.
5. A 38-year-old male has a family history of colon cancer. His father died of colon cancer at age
48. The doctor recommended that this patient have a colonoscopy this year. This is an example of:
1. Primary health prevention.
