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2ND EDITION BY THOMPSON /COMPLETE GUIDE
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Key at the End of Each Chapter)
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Chapter 1: Understanding Health Assessment
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1. The World Health Organization (WHO) established a global strategy called ―Health for
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All.‖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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4. Health-care providers can never deny hospital patients health care.
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2. Health assessment is a foundational and priority nursing skill. This essential skill
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requiresregistered medical caretakers (RNs) to:
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1. Diagnose and treat hospital patients. n7 n7 n7 n7


2. Identify normal and abnormal findings. n7 n7 n7 n7


3. Refer hospital patients with abnormal findings.
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4. Counsel hospital patients with psychosocial needs.
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3. You are assessing a hospital patient with five gunshot wounds on a trauma unit.
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There is a police presence outsideGRADESMORE.COM
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drug dealer in thecommunity. Youknow that medical caretakers must treat all
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hospital patients as persons. This is called:
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1. Caring.
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3. Person-centered care (PCC). n7 n7


4. Standards of care. n7 n7




4. The science-based framework updated every 10 years by the U.S. Department of
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Health andHuman Services that has set national goals and objectives for health
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promotion and disease prevention is:
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2. Healthy People 2020. n7 n7


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4. World Health Organization. n 7 n 7




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 hospital patient have a colonoscopy this year. This is
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anexampleof:
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1. Primary health prevention. n7 n7

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2. Secondary health prevention. n7 n 7


3. Tertiary health prevention. n7 n7




6. A hospital patient in the clinic puts on his call light and tells the person answering that
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he―thinks heis running a fever and has stomach discomfort.‖ You are the registered
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medical caretaker in charge. What should you do?
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1. Ask the medical assistant to go to the hospital patient‘s room and assess his complaints.
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2. Go check to see if the hospital patient has an order for Tylenol for a fever.
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3. Page the resident on call immediately to assess the hospital patient.
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4. Go to the hospital 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
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care for a challenging hospital patient who has behavioral problems. There are several
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areas that need to be problem solved and new ideas formulated to create an improved
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plan of care. What cognitiveskills are you using?
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1. Critical thinking n7


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8. Best practice assessment techniques and instruments have been validated by:
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1. American Medical caretakers Association. n7 n7 n7


2. Code of Ethics for Medical caretakers With Interpretive Statements.
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3. Research and evidence-based practice. n7 n 7 n7


4. Hospital patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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9. Health and illness are determined by many factors. What are the determinants
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of healthidentified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)? Select
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all that apply.
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1. Genetics and biology n7 n7


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10. The U.S. health-care system is evolving, and care is becoming more focused on which of
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the following? Select all that apply.
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1. Wellness

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3. Disease prevention n7


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11. You are performing a health assessment on a 32-year-old female hospital patient who
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reports―feelingfatigued all the time.‖ She states, ―I have not had a physical in over 8 years
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because I didnot have medical insurance.‖ The hospital patient will be having a physical
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today. What will be part of the health assessment? Select all that apply.
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1. Collecting data on past health n7 n7 n7 n7


2. Collecting data on present health n7 n7 n7 n7


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5. Performing a physical examination n7 n7 n7




12. You are working with a hospital patient as a copartner in care. The hospital patient has
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multiplemedical problems. Put theGRADESMORE.COM
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order (1–5). (Enter the number of each step in the proper sequence; do not use punctuation
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or spaces. Example: 1234.)
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1. Planning
2. Evaluation
3. Assessment
4. Implementation
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13. You are working on a medical surgical unit and are caring for a 24-year-old hospital
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patient who is 3 hours post-op. The hospital patient seems confused and restless since
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you assessed her an hour ago. You have a gut feeling that something is very wrong.
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This is an example of
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thinking.
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14. The four techniques of health assessment include inspection, palpation, percussion, and
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Answers

1. The World Health Organization (WHO) established a global strategy called ―Health for
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All.‖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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4. Health-care providers can never deny hospital patients health care.
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