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HEALTH ASSESSMENT EXAM 1
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HEALTH ASSESSMENT EXAM 1 PRACTICE QUESTIONS
What is the first step in setting priorities for patient care?
A) Assign high priority to airway, breathing, and circulation problems.
B) Complete a health history, including allergies, medications, and current
medical problems.
C) Address mental status changes and abnormal laboratory values.
D) Provide diabetic education and community support referrals.
B) Complete a health history, including allergies, medications, and current medical
problems.
What is an example of a second-level priority problem?
A) Family coping issues
B) Acute pain
C)Stable blood sugar levels
D) Mobility problems
B) Acute pain
Complete (Total Health) Database
Includes complete health history and full physical examination
Describes current and past health state and forms baseline to measure all future
changes
Yields first diagnoses
Focused or Problem-Centered Database
For limited or short term problem. Collect "mini" database, smaller in scope,
concerns mainly one problem, one cue complex, or one body system
Follow-up database
used in all settings to monitor progress of short-term or chronic health problems
Emergency Database
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rapid collection of the database, often compiled concurrently with lifesaving
measures
Which of the following are considered social determinants of health? (Select
all that apply.)
1. Lack of primary health care providers in a zip code.
2. Poor-quality public school education that prevents a person from
developing adequate reading skills.
3. Lack of affordable health insurance.
4. Employment opportunities that do not provide paid vacation or sick leave.
5. The number of times a person exercises during a week.
6. Neighborhood safety that prevents a person from walking around the block
or socializing with neighbors outside his or her home.
1. Lack of primary health care providers in a zip code.
2. Poor-quality public school education that prevents a person from developing
adequate reading skills.
3. Lack of affordable health insurance.
4. Employment opportunities that do not provide paid vacation or sick leave.
6. Neighborhood safety that prevents a person from walking around the block or
socializing with neighbors outside his or her home.
social determinants of health
The conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, shaped by the
distribution of money, power, and resources at global, national, and local levels
The nurse is assigned to care for a patient who speaks minimal English but is
fluent in Farsi. Which is the best practice for the nurse to take when
communicating with this patient?
1) Speak slowly and loudly, avoiding complicated words or phrases
2) Arrange for an interpreter for important conversations
3)Use the patient's English-speaking child as a translator
4) Defer important conversations to the provider or their primary physician to
avoid misunderstanding
2) Arrange for an interpreter for important conversations
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After completing an initial assessment of a patient, the nurse has charted that
his respirations are eugenic and his pulse is 58 beats per minute. These types
of data would be:
a. Objective
b. Reflective
c. Subjective
d. Introspective
a. objective
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
c. subjective
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
a. data base
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
c. validate the data by asking a coworker to listen to the breath sounds
The nurse is conducting a class for a 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
HEALTH ASSESSMENT EXAM 1
Download now
Johns Hopkins University
School of Nursing
HIGH YIELDS QUESTIONS
NEWEST MODEL 2026 EXAM LATEST
VERSION SOLVED QUESTIONS &
ANSWERS VERIFIED 100 %
Exam
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HEALTH ASSESSMENT EXAM 1 PRACTICE QUESTIONS
What is the first step in setting priorities for patient care?
A) Assign high priority to airway, breathing, and circulation problems.
B) Complete a health history, including allergies, medications, and current
medical problems.
C) Address mental status changes and abnormal laboratory values.
D) Provide diabetic education and community support referrals.
B) Complete a health history, including allergies, medications, and current medical
problems.
What is an example of a second-level priority problem?
A) Family coping issues
B) Acute pain
C)Stable blood sugar levels
D) Mobility problems
B) Acute pain
Complete (Total Health) Database
Includes complete health history and full physical examination
Describes current and past health state and forms baseline to measure all future
changes
Yields first diagnoses
Focused or Problem-Centered Database
For limited or short term problem. Collect "mini" database, smaller in scope,
concerns mainly one problem, one cue complex, or one body system
Follow-up database
used in all settings to monitor progress of short-term or chronic health problems
Emergency Database
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rapid collection of the database, often compiled concurrently with lifesaving
measures
Which of the following are considered social determinants of health? (Select
all that apply.)
1. Lack of primary health care providers in a zip code.
2. Poor-quality public school education that prevents a person from
developing adequate reading skills.
3. Lack of affordable health insurance.
4. Employment opportunities that do not provide paid vacation or sick leave.
5. The number of times a person exercises during a week.
6. Neighborhood safety that prevents a person from walking around the block
or socializing with neighbors outside his or her home.
1. Lack of primary health care providers in a zip code.
2. Poor-quality public school education that prevents a person from developing
adequate reading skills.
3. Lack of affordable health insurance.
4. Employment opportunities that do not provide paid vacation or sick leave.
6. Neighborhood safety that prevents a person from walking around the block or
socializing with neighbors outside his or her home.
social determinants of health
The conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, shaped by the
distribution of money, power, and resources at global, national, and local levels
The nurse is assigned to care for a patient who speaks minimal English but is
fluent in Farsi. Which is the best practice for the nurse to take when
communicating with this patient?
1) Speak slowly and loudly, avoiding complicated words or phrases
2) Arrange for an interpreter for important conversations
3)Use the patient's English-speaking child as a translator
4) Defer important conversations to the provider or their primary physician to
avoid misunderstanding
2) Arrange for an interpreter for important conversations
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After completing an initial assessment of a patient, the nurse has charted that
his respirations are eugenic and his pulse is 58 beats per minute. These types
of data would be:
a. Objective
b. Reflective
c. Subjective
d. Introspective
a. objective
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
c. subjective
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
a. data base
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
c. validate the data by asking a coworker to listen to the breath sounds
The nurse is conducting a class for a 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
