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Table of Contents
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Chapter 01 Understanding Health Assessment
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Chapter 02 Interviewing the Patient for the Health History
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Chapter 03 Taking the Health History
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Chapter 04 Assessing Nutrition and Anthropometric Measurements
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Chapter 05 Assessment Techniques
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Chapter 06 General Survey and Assessing Vital Signs
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Chapter 07 Assessing Pain
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Chapter 08 Assessing the Skin, Hair, and Nails
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Chapter 09 Assessing the Head, Face, Mouth, and Neck
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Chapter 10 Assessing the Ears
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Chapter 11 Assessing the Eyes
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Chapter 12 Assessing the Respiratory System
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Chapter 13 Assessing the Cardiovascular System
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Chapter 14 Assessing the Abdomen
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Chapter 15 Assessing the Peripheral Vascular System and Regional Lymphatic System
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Chapter 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
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Chapter 19 Assessing the Male Breasts and Reproductive System
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Chapter 20 Assessing the Anus and Rectum
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Chapter 21 Assessing the Newborn
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Chapter 22 Assessing the Child and Adolescent
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Chapter 23 Assessing the Pregnant Woman
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Chapter 24 Assessing the Older Adult
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Chapter 1: Understanding Health Assessment fr fr fr fr




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. fr fr fr fr fr fr fr fr fr


4. Health-care providers can never deny patients health care. fr fr fr fr fr fr fr




2. Health assessment is a foundational and priority nursing skill. This essential skill requires r
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3. You are assessing a patient with five gunshot wounds on a trauma unit. There is a police presen
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ce outside his door because the patient is a known drug dealer in the community. You know that nurs
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es must treat all patients as persons. This is called:
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1. Caring.
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based framework updated every 10 years by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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that has set national goals and objectives for health promotion and disease prevention is:
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1. Healthy People. fr


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3. U.S. Preventive Task Force. fr fr fr


4. World Health Organization. fr fr




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 of:
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1. Primary health prevention. fr fr




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2. Secondary health prevention. fr fr


3. Tertiary health prevention. fr fr




6. A patient in the hospital puts on his call light and tells the person answering that he ―thinks he is ru
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nning a fever and has stomach discomfort.‖ You are the registered nurse in charge. What should yo
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u do?
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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 a c
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hallenging patient who has behavioral problems. There are several areas that need to be problem so
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lved and new ideas formulated to create an improved plan of care. What cognitive skills are you usi
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ng?
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8. Best practice assessment techniques and instruments have been validated by:
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1. American Nurses Association. fr fr


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


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 identified b
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y the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)? Select all that apply.
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