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Chapter 1: Understanding Health Assessment
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Chapter 2: Interviewing the Patient for the Health History C
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hapter 3: Taking the Health History
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Chapter 4: Assessing Nutrition and Anthropometric Measurements Chap
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ter 5: Assessment Techniques
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Chapter 6: General Survey and Assessing Vital Signs Chapte
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r 7: Assessing Pain
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Chapter 8: Assessing the Skin, Hair, and Nails
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Chapter 9: Assessing the Head, Face, Mouth, and Neck Cha
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pter 10: Assessing the Ears
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Chapter 11: Assessing the Eyes xt xt xt xt



Chapter 12: Assessing the Respiratory System Ch
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apter 13: Assessing the Cardiovascular System Cha
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pter 14: Assessing the Abdomen
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Chapter 15: Assessing the Peripheral Vascular System and Regional Lymphatic System Ch
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apter 16: Assessing the Musculoskeletal System
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Chapter 17: Assessing the Neurological System
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Chapter 18: Assessing the Female Breasts, Axillae, and Reproductive System Chapte
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r 19: Assessing the Male Breasts and Reproductive System
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Chapter 20: Assessing the Anus and Rectum Chapt
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er 21: Assessing the Newborn
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Chapter 22: Assessing the Child and Adolescent Ch
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apter 23 Assessing the Pregnant Woman Chapter
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24: Assessing the Older Adult
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1. The World Health Organization (WHO) established a global strategy called ―Health for All.‖
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The goal for this strategy is:
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1. All individuals to get the same health care throughout their life spans.
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2. The government to supply money to care for all the people in the world.
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3. Resources for health care to be evenly distributed and accessible.
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4. Health-care providers can never deny patients health care. xt xt xt xt xt xt xt




2. Health assessment is a foundational and priority nursing skill. This essential skill requires
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registered nurses (RNs) to: xt xt xt


1. Diagnose and treat patients. xt xt xt


2. Identify normal and abnormal findings. xt xt xt xt


3. Refer patients with abnormal findings.
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4. Counsel patients with psychosocial needs. xt xt xt xt




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 patient is a known drug dealer in the community. You
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know that nurses must treat all patients as persons. This is called:
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1. Caring.
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3. Person-centered care (PCC). xt xt


4. Standards of care. xt xt




4. The science- xt


based framework updated every 10 years by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Servic
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es that has set national goals and objectives for health promotion and disease prevention is:
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1. Healthy People. xt


2. Healthy People 2020. xt xt


3. U.S. Preventive Task Force. xt xt xt


4. World Health Organization. xt xt




5. A 38-year-old male has a family history of colon cancer. His father died of colon cancer at age
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48. The doctor recommended that this patient have a colonoscopy this year. This is an example o
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f:
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, 2. Secondary health prevention. xt xt


3. Tertiary health prevention. xt xt




6. A patient in the hospital puts on his call light and tells the person answering that he ―thinks he
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is running a fever and has stomach discomfort.‖ You are the registered nurse in charge. What s
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hould you do? xt xt


1. Ask the medical assistant to go to the patient‘s room and assess his complaints.
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2. Go check to see if the patient has an order for Tylenol for a fever.
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3. Page the resident on call immediately to assess the patient.
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4. Go to the patient‘s room and assess for fever and the epigastric discomfort.
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7. You are leading an interdisciplinary team conference to discuss how to provide better care for
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a challenging patient who has behavioral problems. There are several areas that need to be prob
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lem solved and new ideas formulated to create an improved plan of care. What cognitive skills
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are you using?
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8. Best practice assessment techniques and instruments have been validated by:
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1. American Nurses Association. xt xt


2. Code of Ethics for Nurses With Interpretive Statements.
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3. Research and evidence-based practice. xt xt xt


4. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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9. Health and illness are determined by many factors. What are the determinants of health
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identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)? Select all that apply.
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1. Genetics and biology xt xt


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3. Individual behavior xt


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