Advanced Physical Assessment Exam 1 questions with answers

Advanced Physical Assessment |\ |\ |\




Exam 1 questions with answers |\ |\ |\ |\




For which of the following patients would a
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comprehensive health history be appropriate? - CORRECT |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



ANSWERS ✔✔A new patient with the chief complaint of "I
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am here to establish care"
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Patient is new |\ |\




The components of health history include of the following
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except which? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Thorax and lungs
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This is part of physical examination
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Is the following information subjective or objective? Mrs.
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M has SOB that has persisted for the past 10 days, it is
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worse with activity & relieved by rest. - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔Subjective |\




Information given by pt about circumstances of chief |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



complaint, does not represent objective observation
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,Is the following information subjective or objective? Mrs.
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M has a RR of 32 and PR 120 - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Objective


The following information is recorded in the healthy
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history, pt has had abdominal pain for 1 week, pain lasts
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for 30 mins at a time, comes & goes, 7-9/10 pain,
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accompanied by NV, located mid-epigastric. Which of |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



these categories does it belong to? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Present Illness |\




The following information is recorded in the health
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history, "the patient completed 8th grade, currently lives
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with his wife & 2 children, works on old cars on weekend,
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works in glass factory during the week." Which category?
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- CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Personal and social history
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The following information is recorded in the health
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history, "I feel really tired", what category? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔Chief complaint |\ |\




The following information is recorded in health history,
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"patient denies CP, palpitations, orthopnea, paroxysmal
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nocturnal dyspnea", which category? - CORRECT |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



ANSWERS ✔✔Review of systems |\ |\ |\

,The following information is best placed in which
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category? "The pt has had 3 c-sections" - CORRECT |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



ANSWERS ✔✔Surgeries |\




the following information is best placed in which
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category? "the pt had stent placed in left anterior |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



descending artery in 1999" - CORRECT ANSWERS |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



✔✔adult illnesses |\




the following information is best placed in which
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category? "the patient was treated for an asthma |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



exacerbation in the hospital last year, the pt has never |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



been intubated" - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔adult illnesses
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You are running late after your quarterly quality
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improvement meeting at the hospital and |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




have just gotten paged from the nurses' station because
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a family member of one of your patients
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wants to talk with you about that patient's care. You have
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clinic this afternoon and are
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double-booked for the first appointment time; three other |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



patients also have arrived and are |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




sitting in the waiting room. Which of the following
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demeanors is a behavior consistent with |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




skilled interviewing when you walk into the examination
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room to speak with your first clinic
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, patient? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Calm |\ |\ |\ |\




Suzanne, a 25 year old, comes to your clinic to establish
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care. You are the student preparing
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to go into the examination room to interview her. Which
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of the following is the most logical
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sequence for the patient-provider interview? - CORRECT |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



ANSWERS ✔✔Greet the patient, establish rapport, invite |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



the patient's story, establish the agenda, expand
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and clarify the patient's story, and negotiate a plan.
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Alexandra is a 28-year-old editor who presents to the |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



clinic with abdominal pain. The pain is
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a dull ache, located in the right upper quadrant, that she
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rates as a 3 at the least and an 8 at the
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worst. The pain started a few weeks ago, it lasts for 2 to 3
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hours at a time, it comes and goes, and
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it seems to be worse a couple of hours after eating. She
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has noticed that it starts after eating
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greasy foods, so she has cut down on these as much as
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she can. Initially it occurred once a week,
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but now it is occurring every other day. Nothing makes it
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better. From this description, which of |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




the seven attributes of a symptom has been omitted? -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔associated manifestations |\ |\ |\