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, TableofContents
Chapter 1: Understanding Health Assessment
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Chapter 2: Interviewing the Patient for the Health History
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C hapter 3: Taking the Health History
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Chapter 4: Assessing Nutrition and Anthropometric Measurements Cha
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pt er 5: Assessment Techniques
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Chapter 6: General Surveyand Assessing Vital Signs Cha
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pte r 7: Assessing Pain
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Chapter 8: Assessing the Skin, Hair, and Nails
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Chapter 9: Assessing the Head, Face, Mouth, and Neck Ch
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a pter 10: Assessing the Ears
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Chapter 11: Assessing the Eyes
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Chapter 12: Assessing the Respiratory System
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m C h apter 13: Assessing the Cardiovascular Syst
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em C ha pter 14: Assessing the Abdomen
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Chapter 15: Assessing the Peripheral Vascular System and Regional Lymphatic System
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Ch apter 16: Assessing the Musculoskeletal System
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Chapter 17: Assessing the Neurological System
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Chapter18: Assessing the Female Breasts, Axillae, and Reproductive System Cha
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pte r 19: Assessing the Male Breasts and Reproductive System
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Chapter 20: Assessing theAnus and Rectum Chapt
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e r 21: Assessing the Newborn
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Chapter 22: Assessing the Child and Adolescent
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Ch apter 23 Assessing the Pregnant Woman C
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hapter 24: Assessing the Older Adult
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1. The World Health Organization (WHO) established aglobalstrategy called “Health forAll.
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” The goal for this strategy is:
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1. All individuals to get the same health care throughout their life spans.
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2. The government to supply money to care for all the people in the world.
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3. Resources for health care to be evenly distributed and accessible.
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2. Health assessment is a foundational and priority nursing skill. This essential skill requi
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res registered nurses (RNs) to:
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3. Refer patients with abnormal findings.
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3. You are assessing a patient with five gunshot wounds on a trauma unit. There is
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a polic e presence outside his door GRADESMORE.COM
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mmunity. Yo u know that nurses must treat all patients as persons. This is called:
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4. The science-
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based framework updated every 10 years by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Ser
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vice s that has set national goals and objectives for health promotion and disease preve
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3. U.S. Preventive Task Force.
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5. A 38-year-old male has a family history of colon cancer. His father died of colon cancer at age
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48. The doctor recommended that this patient have a colonoscopy this year. This is an example o f
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6. A patient in the hospital puts on his call light and tells the person answering that he “think
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s he i s running a fever and has stomach discomfort.” You are the registered nurse in cha
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rge. What s h ould you do?
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2. Go check to see if the patient has an order for Tylenol for a fever.
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3. Pagethe resident on call immediately to assess the patient.
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4. Go to the patient’s room and assess for fever and the epigastric discomfort.
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7. You are leading an interdisciplinary team conference to discuss how to provide better car
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e for a challenging patient who has behavioral problems. There are several areas that need
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8. Best practice assessment techniques and instruments have been validated by:
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9. Health and illness are determined by many factors. What are the determinants of
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health identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)? Select all
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