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ESSENTIAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT
2ND EDITION BY THOMPSON /COMPLETE GUIDE
2026(Answer
Key at the End of Each Chapter)
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Chapter 1: Understanding Health Assessment
1. The World Health Organization (WHO) established a global strategy called “Health for All.”
The 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 hospital patients health care.
2. Health assessment is a foundational and priority nursing skill. This essential skill requires
registered medical caretakers (RNs) to:
1. Diagnose and treat hospital patients.
2. Identify normal and abnormal findings.
3. Refer hospital patients with abnormal findings.
4. Counsel hospital patients with psychosocial needs.
3. You are assessing a hospital patient with five gunshot wounds on a trauma unit. There
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because the hospital patient is a known drug dealer in
thecommunity. Youknow that medical caretakers must treat all hospital 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 hospital patient have a colonoscopy this year. This is an
exampleof:
1. Primary health prevention.
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2. Secondary health prevention.
3. Tertiary health prevention.
6. A hospital patient in the clinic puts on his call light and tells the person answering that he
“thinks heis running a fever and has stomach discomfort.” You are the registered medical
caretaker in charge. What should you do?
1. Ask the medical assistant to go to the hospital patient’s room and assess his complaints.
2. Go check to see if the hospital patient has an order for Tylenol for a fever.
3. Page the resident on call immediately to assess the hospital patient.
4. Go to the hospital patient’s room and assess for fever and the epigastric discomfort.
7. You are leading an interdisciplinary team conference to discuss how to provide better care
for a challenging hospital patient who has behavioral problems. There are several areas that
need to be problem solved and new ideas formulated to create an improved plan of care. What
cognitiveskills are you using?
1. Critical thinking
2. Clinical decision making
3. Intuitive thinking
4. Clinical reasoning
8. Best practice assessment techniques and instruments have been validated by:
1. American Medical caretakers Association.
2. Code of Ethics for Medical caretakers With Interpretive Statements.
3. Research and evidence-based practice.
4. Hospital patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
9. Health and illness are determined by many factors. What are the determinants of
healthidentified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)? Select all that
apply.
1. Genetics and biology
2. Gender and occupation
3. Individual behavior
4. Social environment
5. Physical environment
6. Health services
10. The U.S. health-care system is evolving, and care is becoming more focused on which of the
following? Select all that apply.
1. Wellness
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2. Functional status
3. Disease prevention
4. Health promotion
5. Acute illness management
11. You are performing a health assessment on a 32-year-old female hospital patient who
reports“feelingfatigued all the time.” She states, “I have not had a physical in over 8 years
because I didnot have medical insurance.” The hospital patient will be having a physical today.
What will be part of the health assessment? Select all that apply.
1. Collecting data on past health
2. Collecting data on present health
3. Collecting data on significant other’s health
4. Assessing factors influencing health
5. Performing a physical examination
12. You are working with a hospital patient as a copartner in care. The hospital patient has
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multiplemedical problems. Put the following steps of the nursing process in the correct order (1–
5). (Enter the number of each step in the proper sequence; do not use punctuation or spaces.
Example: 1234.)
1. Planning
2. Evaluation
3. Assessment
4. Implementation
5. Diagnosis
13. You are working on a medical surgical unit and are caring for a 24-year-old hospital
patient who is 3 hours post-op. The hospital patient seems confused and restless since you
assessed her an hour ago. You have a gut feeling that something is very wrong. This is an
example of
thinking.
14. The four techniques of health assessment include inspection, palpation, percussion, and
.
Answers
1. The World Health Organization (WHO) established a global strategy called “Health for All.”
The 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 hospital patients health care.
ACCURATE ANSWER:-3
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ESSENTIAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT
2ND EDITION BY THOMPSON /COMPLETE GUIDE
2026(Answer
Key at the End of Each Chapter)
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Stuvia.com - The Marketplace to Buy and Sell your Study Material
Chapter 1: Understanding Health Assessment
1. The World Health Organization (WHO) established a global strategy called “Health for All.”
The 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 hospital patients health care.
2. Health assessment is a foundational and priority nursing skill. This essential skill requires
registered medical caretakers (RNs) to:
1. Diagnose and treat hospital patients.
2. Identify normal and abnormal findings.
3. Refer hospital patients with abnormal findings.
4. Counsel hospital patients with psychosocial needs.
3. You are assessing a hospital patient with five gunshot wounds on a trauma unit. There
is a police presence outside his door GRADESMORE.COM
because the hospital patient is a known drug dealer in
thecommunity. Youknow that medical caretakers must treat all hospital 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 hospital patient have a colonoscopy this year. This is an
exampleof:
1. Primary health prevention.
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2. Secondary health prevention.
3. Tertiary health prevention.
6. A hospital patient in the clinic puts on his call light and tells the person answering that he
“thinks heis running a fever and has stomach discomfort.” You are the registered medical
caretaker in charge. What should you do?
1. Ask the medical assistant to go to the hospital patient’s room and assess his complaints.
2. Go check to see if the hospital patient has an order for Tylenol for a fever.
3. Page the resident on call immediately to assess the hospital patient.
4. Go to the hospital patient’s room and assess for fever and the epigastric discomfort.
7. You are leading an interdisciplinary team conference to discuss how to provide better care
for a challenging hospital patient who has behavioral problems. There are several areas that
need to be problem solved and new ideas formulated to create an improved plan of care. What
cognitiveskills are you using?
1. Critical thinking
2. Clinical decision making
3. Intuitive thinking
4. Clinical reasoning
8. Best practice assessment techniques and instruments have been validated by:
1. American Medical caretakers Association.
2. Code of Ethics for Medical caretakers With Interpretive Statements.
3. Research and evidence-based practice.
4. Hospital patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
9. Health and illness are determined by many factors. What are the determinants of
healthidentified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)? Select all that
apply.
1. Genetics and biology
2. Gender and occupation
3. Individual behavior
4. Social environment
5. Physical environment
6. Health services
10. The U.S. health-care system is evolving, and care is becoming more focused on which of the
following? Select all that apply.
1. Wellness
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2. Functional status
3. Disease prevention
4. Health promotion
5. Acute illness management
11. You are performing a health assessment on a 32-year-old female hospital patient who
reports“feelingfatigued all the time.” She states, “I have not had a physical in over 8 years
because I didnot have medical insurance.” The hospital patient will be having a physical today.
What will be part of the health assessment? Select all that apply.
1. Collecting data on past health
2. Collecting data on present health
3. Collecting data on significant other’s health
4. Assessing factors influencing health
5. Performing a physical examination
12. You are working with a hospital patient as a copartner in care. The hospital patient has
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multiplemedical problems. Put the following steps of the nursing process in the correct order (1–
5). (Enter the number of each step in the proper sequence; do not use punctuation or spaces.
Example: 1234.)
1. Planning
2. Evaluation
3. Assessment
4. Implementation
5. Diagnosis
13. You are working on a medical surgical unit and are caring for a 24-year-old hospital
patient who is 3 hours post-op. The hospital patient seems confused and restless since you
assessed her an hour ago. You have a gut feeling that something is very wrong. This is an
example of
thinking.
14. The four techniques of health assessment include inspection, palpation, percussion, and
.
Answers
1. The World Health Organization (WHO) established a global strategy called “Health for All.”
The 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 hospital patients health care.
ACCURATE ANSWER:-3
