TEST BANK FOR PHYSICAL EXAMINATION AND HEALTH
ASSESSMENT 4TH CANADIAN EDITION 350 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 2026/2027 || HEALTH ASSESSMENT
TECHNIQUES & CLINICAL SKILLS || VERIFIED QUESTIONS &
ACCURATE ANSWERS || HIGH-YIELD STUDY GUIDE ||
GRADED A+
370 questions and answers
After completing an initial assessment of a patient, the nurse has charted that his
respirations are eupneic and his pulse is 58 beats per minute. These types of data
would be:
a.
Objective.
b.
Reflective.
c.
Subjective.
d.
Introspective. - CORRECT ANSWER - ANS: A
Objective data are what the health professional observes by inspecting, percussing,
palpating, and auscultating during the physical examination. Subjective data is
what the person says about him or herself during history taking. The terms
reflective and introspective are not used to describe data.
A patient tells the nurse that he is very nervous, is nauseated, and feels hot. These
types of data would be:
,a.
Objective.
b.
Reflective.
c.
Subjective.
d.
Introspective. - CORRECT ANSWER - ANS: C
Subjective data are what the person says about him or herself during history taking.
Objective data are what the health professional observes by inspecting, percussing,
palpating, and auscultating during the physical examination. The terms reflective
and introspective are not used to describe data.
The patients record, laboratory studies, objective data, and subjective data combine
to form the:
a.
Data base.
b.
Admitting data.
c.
Financial statement.
d.
Discharge summary. - CORRECT ANSWER - ANS: A
,Together with the patients record and laboratory studies, the objective and
subjective data form the data base. The other items are not part of the patients
record, laboratory studies, or data.
When listening to a patients breath sounds, the nurse is unsure of a sound that is
heard. The nurses next action should be to:
a.
Immediately notify the patients physician.
b.
Document the sound exactly as it was heard.
c.
Validate the data by asking a coworker to listen to the breath sounds.
d.
Assess again in 20 minutes to note whether the sound is still present. - CORRECT
ANSWER - ANS: C
When unsure of a sound heard while listening to a patients breath sounds, the nurse
validates the data to ensure accuracy. If the nurse has less experience in an area,
then he or she asks an expert to listen.
The nurse is conducting a class for new graduate nurses. During the teaching
session, the nurse should keep in mind that novice nurses, without a background of
skills and experience from which to draw, are more likely to make their decisions
using:
a.
Intuition.
b.
, A set of rules.
c.
Articles in journals.
d.
Advice from supervisors. - CORRECT ANSWER - ANS: B
Novice nurses operate from a set of defined, structured rules. The expert
practitioner uses intuitive links.
Expert nurses learn to attend to a pattern of assessment data and act without
consciously labeling it. These responses are referred to as:
a.
Intuition.
b.
The nursing process.
c.
Clinical knowledge.
d.
Diagnostic reasoning. - CORRECT ANSWER - ANS: A
Intuition is characterized by pattern recognitionexpert nurses learn to attend to a
pattern of assessment data and act without consciously labeling it. The other
options are not correct.
The nurse is reviewing information about evidence-based practice (EBP). Which
statement best reflects EBP?
ASSESSMENT 4TH CANADIAN EDITION 350 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 2026/2027 || HEALTH ASSESSMENT
TECHNIQUES & CLINICAL SKILLS || VERIFIED QUESTIONS &
ACCURATE ANSWERS || HIGH-YIELD STUDY GUIDE ||
GRADED A+
370 questions and answers
After completing an initial assessment of a patient, the nurse has charted that his
respirations are eupneic and his pulse is 58 beats per minute. These types of data
would be:
a.
Objective.
b.
Reflective.
c.
Subjective.
d.
Introspective. - CORRECT ANSWER - ANS: A
Objective data are what the health professional observes by inspecting, percussing,
palpating, and auscultating during the physical examination. Subjective data is
what the person says about him or herself during history taking. The terms
reflective and introspective are not used to describe data.
A patient tells the nurse that he is very nervous, is nauseated, and feels hot. These
types of data would be:
,a.
Objective.
b.
Reflective.
c.
Subjective.
d.
Introspective. - CORRECT ANSWER - ANS: C
Subjective data are what the person says about him or herself during history taking.
Objective data are what the health professional observes by inspecting, percussing,
palpating, and auscultating during the physical examination. The terms reflective
and introspective are not used to describe data.
The patients record, laboratory studies, objective data, and subjective data combine
to form the:
a.
Data base.
b.
Admitting data.
c.
Financial statement.
d.
Discharge summary. - CORRECT ANSWER - ANS: A
,Together with the patients record and laboratory studies, the objective and
subjective data form the data base. The other items are not part of the patients
record, laboratory studies, or data.
When listening to a patients breath sounds, the nurse is unsure of a sound that is
heard. The nurses next action should be to:
a.
Immediately notify the patients physician.
b.
Document the sound exactly as it was heard.
c.
Validate the data by asking a coworker to listen to the breath sounds.
d.
Assess again in 20 minutes to note whether the sound is still present. - CORRECT
ANSWER - ANS: C
When unsure of a sound heard while listening to a patients breath sounds, the nurse
validates the data to ensure accuracy. If the nurse has less experience in an area,
then he or she asks an expert to listen.
The nurse is conducting a class for new graduate nurses. During the teaching
session, the nurse should keep in mind that novice nurses, without a background of
skills and experience from which to draw, are more likely to make their decisions
using:
a.
Intuition.
b.
, A set of rules.
c.
Articles in journals.
d.
Advice from supervisors. - CORRECT ANSWER - ANS: B
Novice nurses operate from a set of defined, structured rules. The expert
practitioner uses intuitive links.
Expert nurses learn to attend to a pattern of assessment data and act without
consciously labeling it. These responses are referred to as:
a.
Intuition.
b.
The nursing process.
c.
Clinical knowledge.
d.
Diagnostic reasoning. - CORRECT ANSWER - ANS: A
Intuition is characterized by pattern recognitionexpert nurses learn to attend to a
pattern of assessment data and act without consciously labeling it. The other
options are not correct.
The nurse is reviewing information about evidence-based practice (EBP). Which
statement best reflects EBP?
