TEST BANK for -Physical Examination and Health Assessment 9th Edition by Carolyn Jarvis, Ann Eckhardt / All Chapters 1-32 / COMPLETE GUIDE A+

Test Bank for Physical Examination and Health Assessment9
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Chapter 01: Evidence-Based Assessment c2 c2 c2




MULTIPLE CHOICE c2




1. After completing an initial assessment of a patient, the nurse has charted that his respirations are eupnei
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c andhis pulse is 58 beats per minute. These types of data would be:
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a. Objective.


b. Reflective.


c. Subjective.


d. Introspective.


ANS: A c2




Objective data are what the health professional observes by inspecting, percussing, palpating, and auscultatin
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g during the physical examination. Subjective data is what the person says about him or herself during histor
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y 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 nervous, is nausea.CteOdM
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a. Objective.


b. Reflective.


c. Subjective.


d. Introspective.


ANS: C c2




Subjective data are what the person says about him or herself during history taking. Objective data are wh
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at thehealth professional observes by inspecting, percussing, palpating, and auscultating during the physical
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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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a. Data base. c2




b. Admitting data. c2

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c. Financial statement. c2




d. Discharge summary. c2




ANS: A c2




Together with the patients record and laboratory studies, the objective and subjective data form the data b
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ase.The other items are not part of the patients record, laboratory studies, or data.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering (Knowledge)
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MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
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4. When listening to a patients breath sounds, the nurse is unsure of a sound that is heard. The nurse
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s nextaction should be to:
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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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ANS: C c2




When unsure of a sound heard while listening to a patients breath sounds, the nurse validates the data to ensure
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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 should
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2keep in mind that novice nurses, without a background of skills and experience from which to draw, ar
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e more likelyto make their decisions using:
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a. Intuition.


b. A set of rules.
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ANS: B c2




Novice nurses operate from a set of defined, structured rules. The expert practitioner uses intuitive link
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s.DIF: Cognitive Level: Understanding (Comprehension)
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MSC: Client Needs: General
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6. The nurse is reviewing information about evidence-
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based practice (EBP). Which statement best reflectsEBP?
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a. EBP relies on tradition for supportNoUf RbeSsI N
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b. EBP is simply the use of best practice techniques for the treatment of patients.
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c. EBP emphasizes the use of best evidence with the clinicians experience.
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d. The patients own preferences are not important with E
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BP.ANS: C 2c c2




EBP is a systematic approach to practice that emphasizes the use of best evidence in combination with
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the clinicians experience, as well as patient preferences and values, when making decisions about care a
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nd treatment. EBP is more than simply using the best practice techniques to treat patients, and questioni
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ng tradition is important when no compelling and supportive research evidence exists.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Applying (Application)
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MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
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7. Expert nurses learn to attend to a pattern of assessment data and act without consciously labeling it.
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Theseresponses are referred to as:
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a. Intuition.


b. The nursing process.
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c. Clinical knowledge. c2




d. Diagnostic reasoning. c2




ANS: A c2




Intuition is characterized by pattern recognitionexpert nurses learn to attend to a pattern of assessment data
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andact without consciously labeling it. The other options are not correct.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Understanding (Comprehensio
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n)MSC: Client Needs: General
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8. The nurse is conducting a class on priority setting for a group of new graduate nurses. Which is an ex
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ampleof a first-level priority problem?
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a. Patient with postoperative pain
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b. Newly diagnosed patient with diabetes who needs diabetic teaching
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