Health Assessment Exam 1
(Chapter 1,2,3,4,8) for Nursing
Practice 8th Edition by Susan
Fickertt Wilson & Jean Foret
Giddens | Correct Questions and
Answers 2026/ 2027|100% verified
Chapter 1 Evidence Based Assessment - CORRECT ANSWERS-
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Steps of Nursing Process - CORRECT ANSWERS-1. Assessment
2. Diagnosis
3. Outcome Identification
4. Planning
5. Implementation
6. Evaluation
1. Assessment - CORRECT ANSWERS-*Collect data:
-Review of the clinical record, health history, physical examination, functional
assessment, risk assessment, and review of the literature.
*Use evidence based assessment techniques
*Document relevant data
Assessment - CORRECT ANSWERS-Collection of data about the patients health state.
Review of the clinical record - CORRECT ANSWERS-previously recorded data to
answer clinical queries.
Health History - CORRECT ANSWERS-Collection of organized information unique to
the patient like biographical, demographic, physical, mental, emotional, sociocultural,
sexual, and spiritual data.
Physical Examination - CORRECT ANSWERS-Requires you to develop technical skills
and knowledge base. The technical skills are the tools to gather data. You use your
senses- sight, smell, touch, and hearing- to gather data during a PE. The skills
necessary of the PE are inspection, palpatation, percussion, and the auscultation.
, Functional Assessment - CORRECT ANSWERS-measures a person's self-care ability
in the areas of general physical health.
ADL's - CORRECT ANSWERS-activities of daily living: bating, dressing, toileting,
eating, and walking.
Instrumental ADL's - CORRECT ANSWERS-Needed for independent living such as
housekeeping, shopping, cooking, doing laundry, using the phone, managing finances,
nutrition; social relationships and resources; self concept and coping; and home
enviroment.
Risk Assessment - CORRECT ANSWERS-Structured and systematic procedure which
is dependent upon the current identification hazards and an appropriate assessment of
risk arising from the purposes of their control and avoidance.
Steps in Risk Assessment - CORRECT ANSWERS-1. Hazard Identification
2. Decide who might be harmed and how?
3. Evaluate the risks and decide on the precautions
4. Record your findings and implement them
5. Review your assessment and update if necessary
Review of the Literature - CORRECT ANSWERS-an unbiased, comprehensive,
synthesized description of relevant previously published studies
2. Diagnosis - CORRECT ANSWERS-*Compare clinical findings with normal and
abnormal variation and developmental events.
*Interpret data:
-Identify clusters of clues
-Make hypothesis
-Test hypothesis
-Derive diagnosis
*Validate diagnosis
*Document diagnosis
hypothetico-deductive process - CORRECT ANSWERS-1. attending to initially available
cues
2. formulating diagnostic hypotheses
3. gathering data relative to the tentative hypotheses
4. evaluating each hypothesis with the new data collected, thus arriving at a final
diagnosis
Cue - CORRECT ANSWERS-piece of info, a sign or symptom, or a piece of laboratory
or imaging data.
Hypothesis - CORRECT ANSWERS-a tentative explanation for a cue or a set of cues
that can be used as a basis for further investigation.
(Chapter 1,2,3,4,8) for Nursing
Practice 8th Edition by Susan
Fickertt Wilson & Jean Foret
Giddens | Correct Questions and
Answers 2026/ 2027|100% verified
Chapter 1 Evidence Based Assessment - CORRECT ANSWERS-
6
Steps of Nursing Process - CORRECT ANSWERS-1. Assessment
2. Diagnosis
3. Outcome Identification
4. Planning
5. Implementation
6. Evaluation
1. Assessment - CORRECT ANSWERS-*Collect data:
-Review of the clinical record, health history, physical examination, functional
assessment, risk assessment, and review of the literature.
*Use evidence based assessment techniques
*Document relevant data
Assessment - CORRECT ANSWERS-Collection of data about the patients health state.
Review of the clinical record - CORRECT ANSWERS-previously recorded data to
answer clinical queries.
Health History - CORRECT ANSWERS-Collection of organized information unique to
the patient like biographical, demographic, physical, mental, emotional, sociocultural,
sexual, and spiritual data.
Physical Examination - CORRECT ANSWERS-Requires you to develop technical skills
and knowledge base. The technical skills are the tools to gather data. You use your
senses- sight, smell, touch, and hearing- to gather data during a PE. The skills
necessary of the PE are inspection, palpatation, percussion, and the auscultation.
, Functional Assessment - CORRECT ANSWERS-measures a person's self-care ability
in the areas of general physical health.
ADL's - CORRECT ANSWERS-activities of daily living: bating, dressing, toileting,
eating, and walking.
Instrumental ADL's - CORRECT ANSWERS-Needed for independent living such as
housekeeping, shopping, cooking, doing laundry, using the phone, managing finances,
nutrition; social relationships and resources; self concept and coping; and home
enviroment.
Risk Assessment - CORRECT ANSWERS-Structured and systematic procedure which
is dependent upon the current identification hazards and an appropriate assessment of
risk arising from the purposes of their control and avoidance.
Steps in Risk Assessment - CORRECT ANSWERS-1. Hazard Identification
2. Decide who might be harmed and how?
3. Evaluate the risks and decide on the precautions
4. Record your findings and implement them
5. Review your assessment and update if necessary
Review of the Literature - CORRECT ANSWERS-an unbiased, comprehensive,
synthesized description of relevant previously published studies
2. Diagnosis - CORRECT ANSWERS-*Compare clinical findings with normal and
abnormal variation and developmental events.
*Interpret data:
-Identify clusters of clues
-Make hypothesis
-Test hypothesis
-Derive diagnosis
*Validate diagnosis
*Document diagnosis
hypothetico-deductive process - CORRECT ANSWERS-1. attending to initially available
cues
2. formulating diagnostic hypotheses
3. gathering data relative to the tentative hypotheses
4. evaluating each hypothesis with the new data collected, thus arriving at a final
diagnosis
Cue - CORRECT ANSWERS-piece of info, a sign or symptom, or a piece of laboratory
or imaging data.
Hypothesis - CORRECT ANSWERS-a tentative explanation for a cue or a set of cues
that can be used as a basis for further investigation.
