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DIF: Cognitive Level: Understanding (Comprehension)
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MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
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physical examination. The terms reflective and introspective are not used to describe data.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Understanding (Comprehension)
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MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
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3. The patients record, laboratory studies, objective data, and subjective data combine to form the:
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering (Knowledge)
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d. Assess again in 20 minutes to note whether the sound is still present.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Analyzing (Analysis)
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MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
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hould keep in mind that novice nurses, without a background of skills and experience from which to
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draw, are more likely to make their decisions using:
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Test Bank - Physical Examination and Health Assessment 8e (by Jarvis)
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data and act without consciously labeling it. The other options are not correct.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Understanding (Comprehensio
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and questioning tradition is important when no compelling and supportive research evidence
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MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
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example of a first-level priority problem?
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a. Patient with postoperative pain
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Test Bank - Physical Examination and Health Assessment 8e (by Jarvis)
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Chapter 01: Evidence-Based Assessment Wi Wi Wi
MULTIPLE CHOICE Wi
1. After completing an initial assessment of a patient, the nurse has charted that his respirations are eupn
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eic and his pulse is 58 beats per minute. These types of data would be:
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a. Objective.
b. Reflective.
c. Subjective.
d. Introspective.
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Objective data are what the health professional observes by inspecting, percussing, palpating, and auscult
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ating during the physical examination. Subjective data is what the person says about him or herself durin
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g history taking. The terms reflective and introspective are not used to describe data.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Understanding (Comprehension)
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MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
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2. A patient tells the nurse that he is very n e r vNo uUsR, SisIN
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, and feels hot. These types of data would b
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at the health professional observes by inspecting, percussing, palpating, and auscultating during the
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physical examination. The terms reflective and introspective are not used to describe data.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Understanding (Comprehension)
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MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
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3. The patients record, laboratory studies, objective data, and subjective data combine to form the:
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering (Knowledge)
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c. Validate the data by asking a coworker to listen to the breath sounds.
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d. Assess again in 20 minutes to note whether the sound is still present.
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When unsure of a sound heard while listening to a patients breath sounds, the nurse validates the data to e
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nsure accuracy. If the nurse has less experience in an area, then he or she asks an expert to listen
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Analyzing (Analysis)
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MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
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5. The nurse is conducting a class for new graduate nurses. During the teaching session, the nurse s
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Test Bank - Physical Examination and Health Assessment 8e (by Jarvis)
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Understanding (Comprehensio
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and questioning tradition is important when no compelling and supportive research evidence
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example of a first-level priority problem?
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