Advanced Health Assessment And Diagnostic Reasoning 4Th Edition Rhoads Test Bank - Examination Complete Questions And Detailed Solutions Latest Update This Year Just Released

ADVANCED HEALTH ASSESSMENT AND DIAGNOSTIC
REASONING 4TH EDITION RHOADS TEST BANK - EXAMINATION
COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND DETAILED SOLUTIONS
LATEST UPDATE THIS YEAR JUST RELEASED


Question 1: What is one of the broad goals within nursing?
A. To prevent mental health
B. To form broad nursing diagnoses
C. To promote self-care
D. To treat human responses
Answer:
D) To treat human responses


Question 2: What do nursing activities that promote health and
prevent disease accomplish?
A. Reduce the risk of disease
B. Maintain optimal functioning
C. Reinforce good habits
D. Optimize self-care abilities
E. Create home care safety
Answer:
A) Reduce the risk of disease B) Maintain optimal functioning C) Reinforce
good habits


Question 3: The purpose of a health assessment includes what?
A. Identifying the patient's major disease process
B. Collecting information about the health status of the patient
C. Clarifying the patient's ability to pay for health care
D. Evaluating patient outcomes

, E. Synthesizing collected data
Answer:
B) Collecting information about the health status


Question 4: D) Evaluating patient outcomes E) Synthesizing
collected data 5. A nursing instructor is discussing the purposes of
health assessment. What is one purpose of health assessment?
A. To establish a database against which subsequent assessments
can be measured
B. To establish rapport with the patient and family
C. To gather information for specialists to whom the patient might be
referred
D. To quantify the degree of pain a patient may be experiencing
Answer:
A) To establish a


Question 5: How do nurses facilitate the achievement of high-level
wellness with a patient?
A. Encouraging the patient to keep appointments
B. Providing information on alternative treatments
C. Promoting health
D. Providing good patient care
Answer:
C) Promoting health


Question 6: The nurse is conducting a physical assessment. The
data the nurse would collect vary depending on what?
A. How much time the nurse has
B. The patient's acuity

, C. The patient's cooperation
D. Onset of current symptoms
Answer:
B) The patient's acuity


Question 7: The nurse is caring for a patient who, on the continuum
between wellness and illness, is moving toward illness and
premature death. How would the nurse know this to be true?
A. The patient stops doing wellness-promoting activities
B. The patient develops signs and symptoms
C. The patient begins exercising
D. The patient verbalizes anxiety over the cost of medications
Answer:
B) The patient


Question 8: A nurse is writing a care plan for a newly admitted
patient. When formulating the diagnostic statements in the care
plan, what would the nurse use?
A. Rationale
B. ANA recommendations
C. Physical assessment skills
D. Diagnostic reasoning
Answer:
D) Diagnostic reasoning


Question 9: What is the key to resolving problems for this nurse?
A. Diagnostic reasoning
B. Physical assessment
C. Critical thinking

, D. Nursing care plan
Answer:
C) Critical thinking


Question 10: What does the nurse use as a framework for this
plan?
A. Nursing process
B. Diagnostic reasoning
C. Critical thinking
D. Community care map
Answer:
A) Nursing process


Question 11: What are the types of nursing assessments?
A. Physical
B. Focused
C. Mental
D. Emergency
E. Comprehensive
Answer:
B) Focused D) Emergency E) Comprehensive


Question 12: The nurse is admitting a patient to the clinic and
performs a focused assessment. What makes a focused
assessment different from a comprehensive assessment?
A. Covers the body head to toe
B. Occurs only in the clinic area
C. Involves all body systems
D. Is more in-depth on specific issues