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Chapter1:UnderstandingHealthAssessment
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Chapter2:InterviewingthePatientfortheHealthHistory
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ns Chapter 3: Taking the Health History
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Chapter4:AssessingNutritionandAnthropometricMeasurements Chapter
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Chapter6:GeneralSurveyandAssessingVitalSigns Chapter 7:
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Chapter8:AssessingtheSkin,Hair,andNails
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Chapter9:AssessingtheHead,Face,Mouth,andNeck Chapter
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Chapter11:AssessingtheEyes
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Chapter 12: Assessing the Respiratory System
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Chapter15:AssessingthePeripheralVascularSystemandRegionalLymphaticSystem Chapter
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Chapter17:AssessingtheNeurologicalSystem
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Chapter18:AssessingtheFemaleBreasts,Axillae,andReproductiveSystem Chapter 19:
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Chapter20:AssessingtheAnusandRectum Chapter
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Chapter22:AssessingtheChildandAdolescent
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1. TheWorldHealthOrganization (WHO)established aglobalstrategycalled “HealthforAll.” The
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goal for this strategy is:
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1. All individuals to get thesame health carethroughout their lifespans.
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2. Thegovernment to supply money to care for all the people in the world.
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3. Resourcesforhealth careto be evenly distributed and accessible. ns ns ns ns ns ns ns ns ns
4. Health-careproviders can never denypatients health care. ns ns ns ns ns ns ns
2. Healthassessment isafoundationalandpriority nursingskill. This essentialskill requires
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registered nurses (RNs) to:
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1. Diagnoseand treat patients. ns ns ns
2. Identifynormal and abnormal findings. ns ns ns ns
3. Referpatients with abnormal findings. ns ns ns ns
4. Counselpatients with psychosocial needs. ns ns ns ns
3. You are assessing a patient with five gunshot wounds on a trauma unit. There is a police
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presence outside his door because the pGRADESMORE.COM
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that nurses must treat all patients as persons. This is called:
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1. Caring.
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4. Thescience-based framework updated every10 yearsby theU.S. Department ofHealth and
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Human Services that has set national goals and objectives for health promotion and disease
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prevention is:
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5. A38-year-old male has a family historyofcolon cancer. His father died of colon cancer at age
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48. Thedoctor recommended thatthis patient haveacolonoscopy this year. This isanexample of:
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6. A patient in the hospital puts on his call light and tells the person answering that he“thinks he is
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running a fever and has stomach discomfort.” You are the registered nurse in charge. What should
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you do?
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1. Askthemedical assistant to go tothepatient’s room and assess his complaints.
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2. Gocheck to see if the patient has an order for Tylenol for afever.
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3. Pagetheresident on call immediately to assessthe patient.
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4. Goto the patient’s room and assess for fever and the epigastric discomfort.
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7. You areleading an interdisciplinaryteam conferenceto discuss howto providebetter carefor a
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challenging patient who has behavioral problems. There are several areas that need to be problem
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solved and new ideas formulated to create an improved plan of care. What cognitive skills are you
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using?
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8. Bestpractice assessment techniques and instruments havebeen validated by:
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1. AmericanNursesAssociation. ns ns
2. Codeof Ethics for Nurses With InterpretiveStatements.
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9. Health and illness are determined by many factors. What are the determinants of health
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identifiedby theCenters forDiseaseControl and Prevention (CDC)?Select all that apply.
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1. Geneticsandbiology ns ns
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