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on Thompson Test Bank
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, Table of Contents px px
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 Chapt
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er 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 px px px px
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. px px px px px px px
2. Health assessment is a foundational and priority nursing skill. This essential skill requires
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registered nurses (RNs) to: px px px
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2. Identify normal and abnormal findings. px px px px
3. Refer patients with abnormal findings.
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4. Counsel patients with psychosocial needs. px px px px
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 theGRADESMORE.COM
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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based framework updated every 10 years by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service
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s that has set national goals and objectives for health promotion and disease prevention is:
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1. Healthy People. px
2. Healthy People 2020. px px
3. U.S. Preventive Task Force.
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4. World Health Organization. px px
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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6. A patient in the hospital puts on his call light and tells the person answering that he “thinks he i
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s running a fever and has stomach discomfort.” You are the registered nurse in charge. What sh
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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 a
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re 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. px px
2. Code of Ethics for Nurses With Interpretive Statements.
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3. Research and evidence-based practice. px px px
4. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.px px px px px
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 px px
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6. Health services px
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on Thompson Test Bank
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, Table of Contents px px
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 Chapt
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er 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 px px px px
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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,Chapter 1: Understanding Health Assessment px px px px
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. px px px px px px px
2. Health assessment is a foundational and priority nursing skill. This essential skill requires
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registered nurses (RNs) to: px px px
1. Diagnose and treat patients. px px px
2. Identify normal and abnormal findings. px px px px
3. Refer patients with abnormal findings.
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4. Counsel patients with psychosocial needs. px px px px
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 theGRADESMORE.COM
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. px
3. Person-centered care (PCC). px px
4. Standards of care. px px
4. The science- px
based framework updated every 10 years by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service
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s that has set national goals and objectives for health promotion and disease prevention is:
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1. Healthy People. px
2. Healthy People 2020. px px
3. U.S. Preventive Task Force.
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4. World Health Organization. px px
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. px px
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3. Tertiary health prevention. px px
6. A patient in the hospital puts on his call light and tells the person answering that he “thinks he i
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s running a fever and has stomach discomfort.” You are the registered nurse in charge. What sh
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ould you do? px px
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 a
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re you using?
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1. Critical thinking px
2. Clinical decision making px px
3. Intuitive thinking px
4. Clinical reasoning px
8. Best practice assessment techniques and instruments have been validated by:
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1. American Nurses Association. px px
2. Code of Ethics for Nurses With Interpretive Statements.
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3. Research and evidence-based practice. px px px
4. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.px px px px px
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 px px
2. Gender and occupation px px
3. Individual behavior px
4. Social environment px
5. Physical environment px
6. Health services px
