Physical Examination and Health
Assessment – 9th Edition
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TEST BANK
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Carolyn Jarvis
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Ann L. Eckhardt
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Comprehensive Test Bank for Instructors
and Students
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© Carolyn Jarvis & Ann L. Eckhardt
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All rights reserved. Reproduction or distribution without permission is prohibited.
©STUDYSTREAM
, TABLE OF CONTENTS
Physical Examination and Health Assessment – 9th
Edition
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Carolyn Jarvis
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1. Evidence-Based Assessment
2. Cultural Assessment
3. The Interview
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4. The Complete Health History
5. Mental Status Assessment
6. Substance Use Assessment
7. Family Violence and Human Trafficking
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8. Assessment Techniques and Safety in the Clinical Setting
9. General Survey and Measurement
10.Vital Signs
11.Pain Assessment
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12.Nutrition Assessment
13.Skin, Hair, and Nails
14.Head, Face, Neck, and Regional Lymphatics
15.Eyes
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16. Ears
17. Nose, Mouth, and Throat
18. Breasts, Axillae, and Regional Lymphatics
19. Thorax and Lungs
20. Heart and Neck Vessels
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21. Peripheral Vascular System and Lymphatic System
22.Abdomen
23.Musculoskeletal System
24.Neurologic System
25.Male Genitourinary System
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26.Anus, Rectum, and Prostate
27. Female Genitourinary System
28. The Complete Health Assessment: Adult
29. The Complete Physical Assessment: Infant, Young Child, and Adolescent
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30. Bedside Assessment and Electronic Documentation
31.Pregnancy
32. Functional Assessment of the Older Adult
Created by MedConnoisseur ©2025/2026
, Chapter 01: Evidence-Based Assessment
Jarvis: Physical Examination and Health Assessment, 9th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. After completing an initial assessment of a patient, the nurse has charted that his respirations
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are eupneic and his pulse is 58 beats per minute. What type of assessment data is this?
a. Objective
b. Reflective
c. Subjective
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d. Introspective
ANS: A
Objective data is what the health professional observes by inspecting, percussing, palpating,
and auscultating during the physical examination. Subjective data is what the person says
about him or herself during history taking. The terms reflective and introspective are not used
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to describe data.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Understanding (Comprehension)
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, nauseous, and “feels hot.” What type of
assessment data is this?
a. Objective
b. Reflective
c. Subjective
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d. Introspective
ANS: C
Subjective data is what the person says about him or herself during history taking. Objective
data is what the health professional observes by inspecting, percussing, palpating, and
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auscultating during the physical examination. The terms reflective and introspective are not
used to describe data.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Understanding (Comprehension)
MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
VE
3. What do the patient’s record, laboratory studies, objective data, and subjective datacombine
to form?
a. Database
b. Admitting data
c. Financial statement
D?
d. Discharge summary
ANS: A
The objective and subjective data together with the patient’s record and laboratory studies,
form the database. The other items are not part of the patient’s record, laboratory studies, or
data.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering (Knowledge)
MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
, 4. When listening to a patient’s breath sounds, the nurse is unsure of a sound that isheard.
Which action would the nurse take next?
a. Notify the patient’s physician.
b. Document the sound exactly as it was heard.
c. Validate the data by asking another nurse to listen to the breath sounds.
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d. Assess again in 20 minutes to note whether the sound is still present.
ANS: C
When unsure of a sound heard while listening to a patient’s breath sounds, the nurse validates
the data to ensure accuracy by either repeating the assessment themselves or asking another
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nurse to assess the breath sounds. If the nurse has less experience analyzing breath sounds,
then he or she should ask an expert to listen. When unsure of a sound heard while listening to
a patient’s breath sounds, the nurse should validate the data before documenting to ensure
accuracy and before notifying the patient’s physician. To validate that data, the nurse either
repeats the assessment himself or herself or asks another nurse to assess the breath sounds.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Applying (Application)
MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
5. The nurse is conducting a class for new graduate nurses. While teaching the class, what would
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the nurse keep in mind regarding what novice nurses, without a background of skills and
experience from which to draw upon, are more likely to base their decisions on?
a. Intuition
b. A set of rules
c. Articles in journals
PP
d. Advice from supervisors
ANS: B
Novice nurses operate from a set of defined, structured rules to make decisions. It takes time,
perhaps a few years, in similar clinical situations to achieve competency and it is functioning
at the level of an expert practitioner when intuition is included in making clinical decisions.
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While information in journal articles and advice from supervisors may assist in making
decisions, novice nurses do not typically base their decisions on them. It would also be
important that if information from journal articles and advice from supervisors were used, that
they were evidence based.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Understanding (Comprehension) MSC: Client Needs: General
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6. The nurse is reviewing information about evidence-based practice (EBP). Which statement
best reflects EBP?
a. EBP relies on tradition for support of best practices.
b. EBP is simply the use of best practice techniques for the treatment of patients.
D?
c. EBP emphasizes the use of best evidence with the clinician’s experience.
d. EBP does not consider the patient’s own preferences as important.
ANS: C
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Assessment – 9th Edition
ST
UV
TEST BANK
IA
_A
Carolyn Jarvis
PP
Ann L. Eckhardt
RO
VE
Comprehensive Test Bank for Instructors
and Students
D?
© Carolyn Jarvis & Ann L. Eckhardt
??
All rights reserved. Reproduction or distribution without permission is prohibited.
©STUDYSTREAM
, TABLE OF CONTENTS
Physical Examination and Health Assessment – 9th
Edition
ST
Carolyn Jarvis
UV
1. Evidence-Based Assessment
2. Cultural Assessment
3. The Interview
IA
4. The Complete Health History
5. Mental Status Assessment
6. Substance Use Assessment
7. Family Violence and Human Trafficking
_A
8. Assessment Techniques and Safety in the Clinical Setting
9. General Survey and Measurement
10.Vital Signs
11.Pain Assessment
PP
12.Nutrition Assessment
13.Skin, Hair, and Nails
14.Head, Face, Neck, and Regional Lymphatics
15.Eyes
RO
16. Ears
17. Nose, Mouth, and Throat
18. Breasts, Axillae, and Regional Lymphatics
19. Thorax and Lungs
20. Heart and Neck Vessels
VE
21. Peripheral Vascular System and Lymphatic System
22.Abdomen
23.Musculoskeletal System
24.Neurologic System
25.Male Genitourinary System
D?
26.Anus, Rectum, and Prostate
27. Female Genitourinary System
28. The Complete Health Assessment: Adult
29. The Complete Physical Assessment: Infant, Young Child, and Adolescent
??
30. Bedside Assessment and Electronic Documentation
31.Pregnancy
32. Functional Assessment of the Older Adult
Created by MedConnoisseur ©2025/2026
, Chapter 01: Evidence-Based Assessment
Jarvis: Physical Examination and Health Assessment, 9th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. After completing an initial assessment of a patient, the nurse has charted that his respirations
ST
are eupneic and his pulse is 58 beats per minute. What type of assessment data is this?
a. Objective
b. Reflective
c. Subjective
UV
d. Introspective
ANS: A
Objective data is what the health professional observes by inspecting, percussing, palpating,
and auscultating during the physical examination. Subjective data is what the person says
about him or herself during history taking. The terms reflective and introspective are not used
IA
to describe data.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Understanding (Comprehension)
MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
_A
2. A patient tells the nurse that he is very nervous, nauseous, and “feels hot.” What type of
assessment data is this?
a. Objective
b. Reflective
c. Subjective
PP
d. Introspective
ANS: C
Subjective data is what the person says about him or herself during history taking. Objective
data is what the health professional observes by inspecting, percussing, palpating, and
RO
auscultating during the physical examination. The terms reflective and introspective are not
used to describe data.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Understanding (Comprehension)
MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
VE
3. What do the patient’s record, laboratory studies, objective data, and subjective datacombine
to form?
a. Database
b. Admitting data
c. Financial statement
D?
d. Discharge summary
ANS: A
The objective and subjective data together with the patient’s record and laboratory studies,
form the database. The other items are not part of the patient’s record, laboratory studies, or
data.
??
DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering (Knowledge)
MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
, 4. When listening to a patient’s breath sounds, the nurse is unsure of a sound that isheard.
Which action would the nurse take next?
a. Notify the patient’s physician.
b. Document the sound exactly as it was heard.
c. Validate the data by asking another nurse to listen to the breath sounds.
ST
d. Assess again in 20 minutes to note whether the sound is still present.
ANS: C
When unsure of a sound heard while listening to a patient’s breath sounds, the nurse validates
the data to ensure accuracy by either repeating the assessment themselves or asking another
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nurse to assess the breath sounds. If the nurse has less experience analyzing breath sounds,
then he or she should ask an expert to listen. When unsure of a sound heard while listening to
a patient’s breath sounds, the nurse should validate the data before documenting to ensure
accuracy and before notifying the patient’s physician. To validate that data, the nurse either
repeats the assessment himself or herself or asks another nurse to assess the breath sounds.
IA
DIF: Cognitive Level: Applying (Application)
MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
5. The nurse is conducting a class for new graduate nurses. While teaching the class, what would
_A
the nurse keep in mind regarding what novice nurses, without a background of skills and
experience from which to draw upon, are more likely to base their decisions on?
a. Intuition
b. A set of rules
c. Articles in journals
PP
d. Advice from supervisors
ANS: B
Novice nurses operate from a set of defined, structured rules to make decisions. It takes time,
perhaps a few years, in similar clinical situations to achieve competency and it is functioning
at the level of an expert practitioner when intuition is included in making clinical decisions.
RO
While information in journal articles and advice from supervisors may assist in making
decisions, novice nurses do not typically base their decisions on them. It would also be
important that if information from journal articles and advice from supervisors were used, that
they were evidence based.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Understanding (Comprehension) MSC: Client Needs: General
VE
6. The nurse is reviewing information about evidence-based practice (EBP). Which statement
best reflects EBP?
a. EBP relies on tradition for support of best practices.
b. EBP is simply the use of best practice techniques for the treatment of patients.
D?
c. EBP emphasizes the use of best evidence with the clinician’s experience.
d. EBP does not consider the patient’s own preferences as important.
ANS: C
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