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Enhance your nursing assessment skills with this comprehensive Test Bank for Bates' Nursing Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking 3rd Edition. This resource is designed to help nursing students master essential health assessment concepts through a wide range of exam-style practice questions with verified answers that closely align with textbook learning objectives. It covers key topics including patient history collection, communication techniques, physical examination methods, clinical assessment skills, documentation, health promotion, cultural considerations, patient education, and assessment of major body systems including cardiovascular, respiratory, neurological, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, integumentary, and reproductive systems. The practice questions reinforce clinical reasoning, strengthen assessment competency, and prepare students for quizzes, assignments, laboratory assessments, nursing examinations, HESI assessments, and NCLEX-style evaluations. Ideal for nursing students and healthcare learners studying physical assessment and clinical practice, this test bank serves as an effective study companion for improving academic performance, reinforcing assessment knowledge, and building confidence through comprehensive review and realistic exam preparation.

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1. Forwhich of the following patients would a comprehensive health history be appropriate?
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A) A new patient with the chief complaint of ―I sprained my ankle‖
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B) An established patient with the chief complaint of ―I have an upper respiratory infection‖
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C) A new patient with the chiefcomplaint of―I am here to establish care‖
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D) A new patient with the chief complaint of―I cut my hand‖
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ANSWER : C Chapter: 01 F Y F
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Page and Header: 4, Patient Assessment: Comprehensive or Focused
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Feedback: This patient is here to establish care, and because she is new to you, a comprehensive
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health history is appropriate.
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2. The components of the health history include all of the following except which one?
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C) Present illness F Y




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Feedback: The thorax and lungs are part of the physical examination, not part of the health
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history. The others answers are all part of a complete health history.
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3. Is the following information subjective or objective?
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Mr. M. has shortness of breath that has persisted for the past 10 days; it is worse with activity
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, and relieved by rest.
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4. The following information is recorded in the health history: ―The patient has had abdominal
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pain for 1 week. The pain lasts for 30 minutes at a time; it comes and goes. The severity is 7 to 9 on
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a scale of 1 to 10. It is accompanied by nausea and vomiting. It is located in the mid- epigastric
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area.‖
Which of these categories does it belong to?
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A) Chief complaint F Y




B) Present illness F Y




C) Personal and social history F Y F
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D) Review of systems F Y F Y




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Feedback: This information describes the problem of abdominal pain, which is the present
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illness. The interviewer has obtained the location, timing, severity, and associated manifestations of
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the pain. The interviewer will still need to obtain information concerning the quality of the pain,
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the setting in which it occurred, and the factors that aggravate and alleviate the pain. You will
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notice that it does include portions of the pertinent review of systems, but because it relates
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directly to the complaint, it is included in the history of present illness.
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5. The following information is recorded in the health history: ―The patient completed 8th grade.
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He currently lives with his wife and two children. He works on old cars on the weekend. He
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works in a glass factory during the week.‖
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Feedback: Personal and social history information includes educational level, family of origin,
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current household status, personal interests, employment, religious beliefs, military history, and
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lifestyle (including diet and exercise habits; use of alcohol, tobacco, and/or drugs; and sexual
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preferences and history). All of this information is documented in this example. F Y F Y F Y F
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