NUR 2407Health Assesment Answered test bank. QUESTIONS & ANS 100% CORRECT LATEST UPDAATE 2021/2022 GRADED A+Rasmussen College

• 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. • A patient tells the nurse that he is very nervous, is nauseated, and “feels hot.” These types of data would be: a. Subjective. • The patient’s record, laboratory studies, objective data, and subjective data combine to form the: a. Data base. • When listening to a patient’s breath sounds, the nurse is unsure of a sound that is heard. The nurse’s next action should be to: a. Validate the data by asking a coworker to listen to the breath sounds. • 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. A set of rules. • 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. • The nurse is obtaining a history from a 30-year-old male patient and is concerned about health promotion activities. Which of these questions would be appropriate to use to assess health promotion activities for this patient? • “Do you perform testicular self-examinations?” • Which of these responses might the nurse expect during a functional assessment of a patient whose leg is in a cast? • “I’m able to transfer myself from the wheelchair to the bed without help.” • The nurse is reviewing information about evidence-based practice (EBP). Which statement best reflects EBP? a. EBP emphasizes the use of best evidence with the clinician’s experience. • The nurse is conducting a class on priority setting for a group of new graduate nurses. Which is an example of a first-level priority problem? a. Individual with shortness of breath and respiratory distress • When considering priority setting of problems, the nurse keeps in mind that second-level priority problems include which of these aspects? a. Abnormal laboratory values • Which critical thinking skill helps the nurse see relationships among the data? a. Clustering related cues • The nurse knows that developing appropriate nursing interventions for a patient relies on the appropriateness of the diagnosis. a. Nursing • The nursing process is a sequential method of problem solving that nurses use and includes which steps? a. Assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation • A newly admitted patient is in acute pain, has not been sleeping well lately, and is having difficulty breathing. How should the nurse prioritize these problems? a. Breathing, pain, and sleep • Which of these would be formulated by a nurse using diagnostic reasoning? a. Diagnostic hypothesis 1 • Barriers to incorporating EBP include: a. Nurses’ lack of research skills in evaluating the quality of research studies. • What step of the nursing process includes data collection by health history, physical examination, and interview? a. Assessment • During a staff meeting, nurses discuss the problems with accessing research studies to incorporate evidence-based clinical decision making into their practice. Which suggestion by the nurse manager would best help these problems? a. Teach the nurses how to conduct electronic searches for research studies.