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Question: 1. For which of the following patients would a
comprehensive
health history be appropriate?
A) A new patient with the chief complaint of "I sprained my
ankle"
B) An established patient with the chief complaint of "I have an
upper respiratory infection"
C) A new patient with the chief complaint of "I am here to
establish care"
D) A new patient with the chief complaint of "I cut my hand"
Answer:
C

Question: 2. The components of the health history include all of the
following except which one?
A) Review of systems
B) Thorax and lungs
C) Present illness
D) Personal and social items
Answer:
B

Question: Is the following information subjective or objective? Mr. M.
has shortness of breath that has persisted for the past 10 days; it is worse
with activity and relieved by rest.
A) Subjective
B) Objective
Answer:
A

Question: Is the following information subjective or objective? Mr. M.
has a respiratory rate of 32 and a pulse rate of 120.
A) Subjective
B) Objective
Answer:
B

,Question: The following information is recorded in the health history:
"The patient has had abdominal pain for 1 week. The pain lasts for 30
minutes at a time; it comes and goes. The severity is 7 to 9 on a scale of
1 to 10. It is accompanied by nausea and vomiting. It is located in the
midepigastric area." Which of these categories does it belong to?
A) Chief complaint
B) Present illness
C) Personal and social history
D) Review of systems
Answer:
B

Question: The following information is recorded in the health history:
"The patient completed 8th grade. He currently lives with his wife and
two children. He works on old cars on the weekend. He works in a glass
factory during the week." Which category does it belong to?
A) Chief complaint
B) Present illness
C) Personal and social history
D) Review of systems
Answer:
C

Question: The following information is recorded in the health history:
"I feel really tired." Which category does it belong to?
A) Chief complaint
B) Present illness
C) Personal and social history
D) Review of systems
Answer:
A

Question: The following information is recorded in the health history:
"Patient denies chest pain, palpitations, orthopnea, and paroxysmal
nocturnal dyspnea." Which category does it belong to?
A) Chief complaint
B) Present illness
C) Personal and social history
D) Review of systems
Answer:
D

,Question: The following information is best placed in which category?
"The patient has had three cesarean sections."
A) Adult illnesses
B) Surgeries
C) Obstetrics/gynecology
D) Psychiatric
Answer:
B

Question: The following information is best placed in which category?
"The patient had a stent placed in the left anterior descending artery
(LAD) in 1999."
A) Adult illnesses
B) Surgeries
C) Obstetrics/gynecology
D) Psychiatric
Answer:
A

Question: The following information is best placed in which category?
"The patient was treated for an asthma exacerbation in the hospital last
year; the patient has never been intubated."
A) Adult illnesses
B) Surgeries
C) Obstetrics/gynecology
D) Psychiatric
Answer:
A

Question: After completing an initial assessment of a patient, the nurse
has charted that his respirations are eupneic and his pulse is 58 beats per
minute. These types of data would be:
A Objective. B Reflective. C Subjective. D Introspective.
Answer:
A

Question: 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.
Answer:
C

, Question: 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.
Answer:
A

Question: 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.
Answer:
C

Question: The nurse is conducting a class for 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. B A set of rules. C Articles in journals. D Advice from
supervisors.
Answer:
B

Question: Expert nurses learn to attend to a pattern of assessment data
and act without consciously labeling it. These responses are referred to
as:
a Intuition. B The nursing process. C Clinical knowledge. D Diagnostic
reasoning.
Answer:
A

Question: The nurse is reviewing information about evidence-based
practice (EBP). Which statement best reflects EBP? A EBP relies on
tradition for support of best practices. B EBP is simply the use of best
practice techniques for the treatment of patients. C EBP emphasizes the
use of best evidence with the clinicians experience. D The patients own
preferences are not important with EBP.
Answer:
C

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