TEST BANK for Essential Health Assessment 2nd Edition by Thompson, All Chapters 1 - 24 Complete

, Table of Contents X X




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 Cha
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pter 5: Assessment Techniques
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Chapter 6: General Survey and Assessing Vital Signs Chapt
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er 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
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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 C
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hapter 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 Chapt
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er 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 C
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hapter 23 Assessing the Pregnant Woman Chapter
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24: Assessing the Older Adult
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,Chapter 1: Understanding Health Assessment
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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.
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2. Health assessment is a foundational and priority nursing skill. This essential skill requires
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registered nurses (RNs) to: X X X


1. Diagnose and treat patients. X X X


2. Identify normal and abnormal findings.
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3. Refer patients with abnormal findings.
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4. Counsel patients with psychosocial needs.
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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.
2. Holistic process. X


3. Person-centered care (PCC). X X


4. Standards of care. X X




4. The science- X


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. X


2. Healthy People 2020. X X


3. U.S. Preventive Task Force.
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4. World Health Organization. X X




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:
1. Primary health prevention. X X

, 2. Secondary health prevention. X X


3. Tertiary health prevention. X X




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 sh
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ould you 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
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a challenging patient who has behavioral problems. There are several areas that need to be probl
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em solved and new ideas formulated to create an improved plan of care. What cognitive skills ar
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e you using?
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1. Critical thinking X


2. Clinical decision making X X


3. Intuitive thinking X


4. Clinical reasoning X




8. Best practice assessment techniques and instruments have been validated by:
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1. American Nurses Association. X X


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


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 X X


2. Gender and occupation X X


3. Individual behavior X


4. Social environment X


5. Physical environment X


6. Health services X