ADVANCED HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUIZ 1
UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
⩥ What is the primary objective when developing a relationship
with the patient?
Answer: To discover the details about a patient's concern,
explore expectations, display interest, and partnership
⩥ What does establishing a positive relationship with the patient
depend on?
Answer: Communication built on courtesy, comfort, connection,
and confirmation.
⩥ What are effective communication strategies when obtaining a
health history?
Answer: Using open-ended questions, direct questions, rarely
leading questions. Facilitate by encouraging patient to say more.
Reflect by repeating what you heard. Clarify. Empathize by
showing understanding and acceptance. Confront by discussing
disturbing behavior. Interpret by repeating what you heard to
confirm.
,⩥ What are open-ended questions?
Answer: Those that give the patient discretion about the extent
of the answer. Such as "How have you been feeling?" or "What
brings you in today?"
⩥ What are direct questions?
Answer: Those that seek specific information. Such as "How
long ago did that happen?" or "Where does it hurt?"
⩥ What are leading questions?
Answer: Those that are prompting the patient toward the desired
answer and these are the most risky.
⩥ What is a patient centered question?
Answer: One that respects and responds to a patient's wants,
needs, preferences so that they can make choices in their care
that best fit their individual circumstances. Such as "How would
you like to be addressed?", "What would you like us to do
today?", "How are you coping with your illness?".
,⩥ What are potential barriers of patient and provider
communication?
Answer: When the patient is curious about you, anxiety, silence,
depression, crying/compassionate moments, physical &
emotional intimacy, seduction, anger, avoiding the full story,
financial considerations.
⩥ What is the structure and components of the patient history?
Answer: Patient identifiers, chief complaint, history of present
illness, past medical history, family history, personal/social
history, review of systems
⩥ What kind of patient information is obtained in the patient
identifier component of the patient history?
Answer: name, age, gender, race, occupation, date, time, and
referral source
⩥ What kind of patient information is obtained in the chief
complaint component of the patient history?
Answer: a brief statement about why the patient is seeking care
while probing for underlying concerns.
, ⩥ What kind of patient information is obtained in the HPI
component of the patient history?
Answer: a chronological order of events leading up to the
presenting problem, health status prior to the onset, a complete
description of first symptoms, symptom analysis (onset,
location, description, duration, intensity, character, aggravating
factors, alleviating factors), impact on patients lifestyle,
medications or treatments tried
⩥ What kind of information is obtained in the PMH component
of the patient history?
Answer: general health/strength
childhood illnesses
major adult illnesses and chronic diseases
immunization
surgeries (dates, hospital, diagnosis, complications)
serious injuries resulting in disability
limitation of ability to function d/t past events
medications
allergies (meds, environment, seasonal, food)
transfusions
recent screening tests
UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
⩥ What is the primary objective when developing a relationship
with the patient?
Answer: To discover the details about a patient's concern,
explore expectations, display interest, and partnership
⩥ What does establishing a positive relationship with the patient
depend on?
Answer: Communication built on courtesy, comfort, connection,
and confirmation.
⩥ What are effective communication strategies when obtaining a
health history?
Answer: Using open-ended questions, direct questions, rarely
leading questions. Facilitate by encouraging patient to say more.
Reflect by repeating what you heard. Clarify. Empathize by
showing understanding and acceptance. Confront by discussing
disturbing behavior. Interpret by repeating what you heard to
confirm.
,⩥ What are open-ended questions?
Answer: Those that give the patient discretion about the extent
of the answer. Such as "How have you been feeling?" or "What
brings you in today?"
⩥ What are direct questions?
Answer: Those that seek specific information. Such as "How
long ago did that happen?" or "Where does it hurt?"
⩥ What are leading questions?
Answer: Those that are prompting the patient toward the desired
answer and these are the most risky.
⩥ What is a patient centered question?
Answer: One that respects and responds to a patient's wants,
needs, preferences so that they can make choices in their care
that best fit their individual circumstances. Such as "How would
you like to be addressed?", "What would you like us to do
today?", "How are you coping with your illness?".
,⩥ What are potential barriers of patient and provider
communication?
Answer: When the patient is curious about you, anxiety, silence,
depression, crying/compassionate moments, physical &
emotional intimacy, seduction, anger, avoiding the full story,
financial considerations.
⩥ What is the structure and components of the patient history?
Answer: Patient identifiers, chief complaint, history of present
illness, past medical history, family history, personal/social
history, review of systems
⩥ What kind of patient information is obtained in the patient
identifier component of the patient history?
Answer: name, age, gender, race, occupation, date, time, and
referral source
⩥ What kind of patient information is obtained in the chief
complaint component of the patient history?
Answer: a brief statement about why the patient is seeking care
while probing for underlying concerns.
, ⩥ What kind of patient information is obtained in the HPI
component of the patient history?
Answer: a chronological order of events leading up to the
presenting problem, health status prior to the onset, a complete
description of first symptoms, symptom analysis (onset,
location, description, duration, intensity, character, aggravating
factors, alleviating factors), impact on patients lifestyle,
medications or treatments tried
⩥ What kind of information is obtained in the PMH component
of the patient history?
Answer: general health/strength
childhood illnesses
major adult illnesses and chronic diseases
immunization
surgeries (dates, hospital, diagnosis, complications)
serious injuries resulting in disability
limitation of ability to function d/t past events
medications
allergies (meds, environment, seasonal, food)
transfusions
recent screening tests
