NUR 2092 / NUR2092 HEALTH ASSESSMENT TEST BANK.

NUR 2092 HEALTH ASSESSMENT TEST BANK Chapter 01: Evidence-Based Assessment 1. 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. 2. A patient tells the nurse that he is very nervous, is nauseated, and “feels hot.” These types of data would be: a. Subjective. 3. The patient’s record, laboratory studies, objective data, and subjective data combine to form the: a. Data base. 4. 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. 5. 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. 6. 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.