Test Bank Physical Examination and Health Assessment, 9th Edition by Carolyn Jarvis, and Ann L. Eckhardt, (All Chapters 1-32 | Newest Update 2026) + Nclex Case Studies with Answers

Test Bank for Physical Examination and Health Assessment 9th Edition by Carolyn Jarvis, Ann

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1. After completing an initial assessment of a patient, the nurse has charted that his respirations are eupn
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eic andh is pulse is 58 beats per minute. These types of data would be:
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a. Objective.


b. Reflective.


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d. Introspective.


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Objective data are what the health professional observes by inspecting, percussing, palpating, and auscultating
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dur ing the physical examination. Subjective data is what the person says about him or herself during hist
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ory taking. T he terms reflective and introspective are not used to describe data.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Understanding (Comprehension)
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MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
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a. Objective.


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Subjective data are what the person says about him or herself during history taking. Objective data are w
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hat the h ealth professional observes by inspecting, percussing, palpating, and auscultating during the physic
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al examination
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a. DIF: Cognitive Level: Understanding (Comprehension)
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MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
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3. The patients record, laboratory studies, objective data, and subjective data combine to form the:
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Together with the patients record and laboratory studies, the objective and subjective data form the data
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base.Th e other items are not part of the patients record, laboratory studies, or data.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering (Knowledge)
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MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
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4. When listening to a patients breath sounds, the nurse is unsure of a sound that is heard. The nur
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ses nexta ction should be to:
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b. Document the sound exactly as it was heard.
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c. Validate the data by asking a coworker to listen to the breath sounds.
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d. Assess again in 20 minutes to note whether the sound is still present.
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When unsure of a sound heard while listening to a patients breath sounds, the nurse validates the data to ensureaccu
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Analyzing (Analysis)
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MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
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5. The nurse is conducting a class for new graduate nurses. During the teaching session, the nurse should
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Wkeep in mind that novice nurses, without a background of skills and experience from which to draw, a
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re more likelyto m ake their decisions using:
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a. Intuition.


b. A set of rules.
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d. Advice from supervisors.
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Novice nurses operate from a set of defined, structured rules. The expert practitioner uses intuitive links.DIF: Cognit
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MSC: Client Needs: General
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6. The nurse is reviewing information about evidence
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c. EBP emphasizes the use of best evidence with the clinicians experience.
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d. The patients own preferences are not important with EBP.
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EBP is a systematic approach to practice that emphasizes the use of best evidence in combination with th
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e cli nicians experience, as well as patient preferences and values, when making decisions about care a
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nd treatme nt. EBP is more than simply using the best practice techniques to treat patients, and questio
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ning tradition is i mportant when no compelling and supportive research evidence exists.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Applying (Application)
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7. Expert nurses learn to attend to a pattern of assessment data and act without consciously labeling it
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Understanding (Comprehensio
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8. The nurse is conducting a class on priority setting for a group of new graduate nurses. Which is an
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exampleo f a first-level priority problem?
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a. Patient with postoperative pain
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b. Newly diagnosed patient with diabetes who needs diabetic teaching
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