WGU D222 HEALTH ASSESSMENT EXAM 2 2025
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED
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Assessment
Assessment is the collection of subjective and objective data about a patient's
health.
Subjective data
Subjective data consist of information provided by the affected individual.
Objective data
Objective data include information obtained by the health care provider through
physical assessment, the patient's record, and laboratory studies.
The database
The database is the totality of information available about the patient. The purpose
of assessment is to make a judgment or diagnosis.
,Diagnostic reasoning
Diagnostic reasoning is the process of analyzing health data and drawing
conclusions to identify diagnoses.
Diagnostic reasoning has which four major components?
(1) Attending to initially available cues, which are pieces of information, signs,
symptoms, or laboratory data;
(2) Formulating diagnostic hypotheses, which are tentative explanations for a cue
or a set of cues and can serve as a basis for further investigation;
(3) Gathering data relative to the tentative hypotheses;
(4) evaluating each hypothesis with the new data collected, which leads to a final
diagnosis.
The nursing process includes which six phases?
The nursing process includes which six phases?
(1) assessment,
(2) diagnosis,
(3) outcome identification,
(4) planning,
(5) implementation, and
,(6) evaluation.
It is a dynamic, interactive process in which practitioners move back and forth
within the steps.
The novice nurse
The novice nurse has no experience with specific patient populations and uses
rules to guide performance.
The experienced nurse
The experienced nurse understands a patient situation as a whole rather than as a
list of tasks, attends to an assessment data pattern, and acts without consciously
labeling it.
Critical thinking
Critical thinking is the multidimensional thinking process needed for sound
diagnostic reasoning and clinical judgment. Seventeen critical thinking skills have
been identified, including setting priorities.
First-level priority problems
First-level priority problems are emergent, life-threatening, and immediate, such as
establishing an airway or supporting breathing.
, Second-level priority problems
Second-level priority problems are next in urgency. They require prompt
intervention to prevent deterioration, and may include a mental status change or
acute pain.
Third-level priority problems
Third-level priority problems are important to the patient's health, but can be
addressed after more urgent problems. Examples include lack of knowledge or
family coping.
Evidence-based practice
Evidence-based practice is a systematic approach to practice that uses the best
evidence, the clinician's experience, and the patient's preferences and values to
make decisions about care and treatment.
Every examiner needs to collect four kinds of databases based on the situation.
What are the four kinds of databases?
Every examiner needs to collect four kinds of databases based on the situation.
What are the four kinds of databases?
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED
A+
Assessment
Assessment is the collection of subjective and objective data about a patient's
health.
Subjective data
Subjective data consist of information provided by the affected individual.
Objective data
Objective data include information obtained by the health care provider through
physical assessment, the patient's record, and laboratory studies.
The database
The database is the totality of information available about the patient. The purpose
of assessment is to make a judgment or diagnosis.
,Diagnostic reasoning
Diagnostic reasoning is the process of analyzing health data and drawing
conclusions to identify diagnoses.
Diagnostic reasoning has which four major components?
(1) Attending to initially available cues, which are pieces of information, signs,
symptoms, or laboratory data;
(2) Formulating diagnostic hypotheses, which are tentative explanations for a cue
or a set of cues and can serve as a basis for further investigation;
(3) Gathering data relative to the tentative hypotheses;
(4) evaluating each hypothesis with the new data collected, which leads to a final
diagnosis.
The nursing process includes which six phases?
The nursing process includes which six phases?
(1) assessment,
(2) diagnosis,
(3) outcome identification,
(4) planning,
(5) implementation, and
,(6) evaluation.
It is a dynamic, interactive process in which practitioners move back and forth
within the steps.
The novice nurse
The novice nurse has no experience with specific patient populations and uses
rules to guide performance.
The experienced nurse
The experienced nurse understands a patient situation as a whole rather than as a
list of tasks, attends to an assessment data pattern, and acts without consciously
labeling it.
Critical thinking
Critical thinking is the multidimensional thinking process needed for sound
diagnostic reasoning and clinical judgment. Seventeen critical thinking skills have
been identified, including setting priorities.
First-level priority problems
First-level priority problems are emergent, life-threatening, and immediate, such as
establishing an airway or supporting breathing.
, Second-level priority problems
Second-level priority problems are next in urgency. They require prompt
intervention to prevent deterioration, and may include a mental status change or
acute pain.
Third-level priority problems
Third-level priority problems are important to the patient's health, but can be
addressed after more urgent problems. Examples include lack of knowledge or
family coping.
Evidence-based practice
Evidence-based practice is a systematic approach to practice that uses the best
evidence, the clinician's experience, and the patient's preferences and values to
make decisions about care and treatment.
Every examiner needs to collect four kinds of databases based on the situation.
What are the four kinds of databases?
Every examiner needs to collect four kinds of databases based on the situation.
What are the four kinds of databases?
