Advanced Assessment: Interpreting Findings and Formulating Differential Diagnoses – Test Bank (5th Edition), Nursing/Advanced Practice Programs, Exam Preparation Material

TEST BANK: Advanced Assessment: Interpreting
Findings and Formulating Differential Diagnoses, 5th
Edition by Mary Jo Goolsby, Laurie Grubbs
CHAPTER 1 -22 CONTAINING ACCURATE ANSWERS WITH EXPLANATIONS FOR
EXAM PREPARATION (A+ PASS)




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, Table of Contents

I. The Art of Assessment and Clinical Decision Making

1. Assessment and Clinical Decision Making: An Overview
2. Genomic Assessment: Interpreting Findings and Formulating Differential Diagnoses

II. Advanced Assessment and Differential Diagnosis by Body Regions and Systems

3. Skin

4. Head, Face, and Neck

5. Eye

6. Ear, Nose, Throat

7. Cardiac and Peripheral Vascular Systems

8. Respiratory System
9. Breasts

10. Abdomen

11. Genitourinary System

12. Male Reproductive System

13. Female Reproductive System

14. Musculoskeletal System

15. Neurological System
16. Nonspecific Complaints

17. Psychiatric Mental Health

III. Assessments and Differential Diagnosis in Special Patient Populations

18. Pediatric Patients

19. Pregnant Patients
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21. Older Patients
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22. Persons with Disabilities
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, Chapter 1. Assessment and Clinical Decision-Making: Overview
Multiple Choice

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

1. Which type of clinical decision-making is most reliable?

A. Intuitive

B. Analytical

C. Experiential

D. Augenblick


2. Which of the following is false? To obtain adequate history, health-care providers must be:

A. Methodical and systematic

B. Attentive to the patient’s verbal and nonverbal language

C. Able to accurately interpret the patient’s responses

D. Adept at reading into the patient’s statements



3. Essential parts of a health history include all of the following except:
A. Chief complaint

B. History of the present illness

C. Current vital signs

D. All of the above are essential history components
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4. Which of the following is false? While performing the physical examination, the examiner
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, A. Differentiate between normal and abnormal findings

B. Recall knowledge of a range of conditions and their associated signs and symptoms

C. Recognize how certain conditions affect the response to other conditions

D. Foresee unpredictable findings




5. The following is the least reliable source of information for diagnostic statistics:

A. Evidence-based investigations

B. Primary reports of research

C. Estimation based on a provider’s experience

D. Published meta-analyses


6. The following can be used to assist in sound clinical decision-making:

A. Algorithm published in a peer-reviewed journal article

B. Clinical practice guidelines

C. Evidence-based research

D. All of the above



7. If a diagnostic study has high sensitivity, this indicates a:
A. High percentage of persons with the given condition will have an abnormal result

B. Low percentage of persons with the given condition will have an abnormal result

C. Low likelihood of normal result in persons without a given condition

D. None of the above
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8. If a diagnostic study has high specificity, this indicates a:
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A. Low percentage of healthy individuals will show a normal result
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B. High percentage of healthy individuals will show a normal result
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