Questions with All Correct Answers
2025-2026 Set.
Identify the purpose of assessment - Answer the collection of data about an indv's health
state for the purpose of making a judgement or diagnosis
Differentiate between subjective and objective data - Answer Subjective: what the person
says about themselves during history-taking
Objective: what provider observes by inspecting, percussing, palpating, and auscultating during
physical exam
Describe the importance of using evidence-informed practices in assessment - Answer
systematic approach to making decision about patient care and tx that integrates the best
available evidence with assessment data, the clinician's experience and expertise, and individual
patient preferences and values, with the aim to improve outcomes
Complete (Total Health) Database - Answer complete health history, full physical
examination, lab studies, and other diagnostic tests
Episodic Database - Answer used for limited or short-term problem; one problem, one cue
complex, or one body system
Follow-Up Database - Answer used in all settings to monitor short-term or chronic health
problems
Emergency Database - Answer rapid collection of data, often complied while lifesaving
occurring
Explain what is meant by priority setting in health assessment - Answer determine acuity of
illness and person's social and family context - first, second, third, collaborative
First-level priority - Answer Emergencies, life-threatening, immediate - such as establishing
, (such as mental change, acute pain, acute urinary elimination problems, untreated medical
problems, abnormal lab values, risks of infection, or risk to safety or security)
Third-level priority - Answer Important to patient's health but can be addressed after more
urgent health problems are addressed; referrals and interventions to address these problems
are lengthier; response to treatment is expected to take more time
Collaborative problems - Answer Approach to treatment that involves multiple disciplines
and nurses often has primary responsibility to diagnose the onset and monitor changes in status
Identify the purpose of a relational approach in nursing practice - Answer ·a way of thinking
and focusing your attention - attention is focused on what is going on at and between the
intrapersonal, interpersonal, and contextual levels of health care situations
2 lenses in relational approach - Answer - A lens to focus on meaning and interpretation
"hermeneutic phenomenological lens": Inquire how different people make sense of any given
situation and how those difference play out at all three levels
- A lens to focus on power - critical lens: your power position, societal structures impacting
people's health and wellbeing, helps you move beyond individualist orientation
Discuss the importance of conducting culturally safe health assessments - Answer mitigating
potential harms, trauma, and lack of safety that people may experience as they seek help in
health care; primary responsibility for safety in health care providers, not the patient;
counteracting everyday impacts of racism and discrimination
Examine the policies and inequities within Canada that affect the health of Indigenous
populations - Answer Indian Act; NIHB; reserves; TRC Calls to Action; stereotypes on
alcoholism, health, Indigenous mothers
Identify health care approaches that place clients at risk for cultural harm - Answer ?
HEAS 1000 Unit 2