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Test Bank for Physical Examination and Health Assessment 8th Edition by Carolyn Jarvis Comprehensive Questions and Answers for Health Assessment Nursing Course and Physical Examination Nursing Subject

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This comprehensive test bank for Physical Examination and Health Assessment 8th Edition by Carolyn Jarvis is designed to help nursing students review essential health assessment principles and strengthen their clinical examination knowledge. It provides useful study support for quizzes, examinations, midterms, finals, and other assessments within nursing health assessment courses. Students can use this resource to reinforce concepts related to health histories, physical examination techniques, patient interviews, clinical observations, vital signs, general assessment, and systematic examination of different body systems. It can also help learners review important approaches to collecting subjective and objective data, recognizing normal and abnormal findings, documenting assessment information, and developing appropriate nursing considerations based on patient findings. The resource is suitable for students studying health assessment, physical examination, nursing assessment, clinical nursing, and related healthcare subjects. Used alongside the textbook, lectures, class notes, laboratory practice, and clinical experiences, it can help students identify areas requiring additional revision and improve their readiness for academic assessments. This resource offers an organized supplement for reinforcing the foundational assessment skills needed for safe and effective nursing practice.

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Assessmen 8th Edition by Jarvis JY Y Y Y




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Contents


Table of Contents
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Chapter01:Evidence-BasedAssessmen
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Chapter 02: Cultural Assessment
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Chapter 03: The Interview
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Chapter 04: TheCompleteHealth History Chapter
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05: Mental Status Assessmen Chapter 06:
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Substance Use Assessment Y Y 80
Chapter 07: Domestic andFamily Violence Assessment
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Chapter 08: Assessmen Techniques andSafety in theClinical Setting
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Chapter 09: General Survey and Measurement
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Chapter 10: Vital Signs Chapter
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11:PainAssessment
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Chapter12:NutritionAssessmen Chapter
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13: Skin, Hair, and Nails
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Chapter 14: Head, Face, Neck, andRegional Lymphatics
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Chapter 15: EyesY Y 194
Chapter 16: EarsY Y 211
Chapter 17: Nose, Mouth, and Throat
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Chapter 18: Breasts, Axillae, andRegional Lymphatics Chapter
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19: Thorax and Lungs
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Chapter 20: Hear and Neck Vessels
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Chapter 21: Peripheral Vascular System andLymphatic System Chapter
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22: Abdomen
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Chapter 23: Musculoskeletal System
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Chapter 24: Neurologic System
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Chapter 25: Male Genitourinary System
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Chapter 26:Anus, Rectum,andProstate
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Chapter 27: FemaleGenitourinary System
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Chapter 28: TheCompleteHealth Assessment: Adult
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Chapter 29: TheCompletePhysical Assessment: Infant, Child, and Adolescen
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Chapter 30: Bedside Assessmen and Electronic Documentation
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Chapter 31: ThePregnan Woman
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Chapter 32: Functional Assessmen of theOlder Adult
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1. After completing an initial assessment of a patient, the nurse has charted that his respirations are eupneic and his
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pulse is 58 beats per minute. These types of data would be:
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a. Objective.


b. Reflective.


c. Subjective.


d. Introspective.


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Objective data are what the health professional observes by inspecting, percussing, palpating, and auscultating
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during the physical examination. Subjective data is what the person says about him or herself during history
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taking. The 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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2. A patient tells the nurse that he is very n e r v No uUsR, SisINnaGuTsB
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a. Objective.


b. Reflective.


c. Subjective.


d. Introspective.


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Subjective data are what the person says about him or herself during history taking. Objective data are what the
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health professional observes by inspecting, percussing, palpating, and auscultating during the physical
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examination. The terms reflective and introspective are not used to describe data.JY JY JY JY JY JY JY JY JY JY JY




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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a. Data base. JY




b. Admitting data. J Y




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c. Financial statement. JY




d. Discharge summary. JY




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Together with the patients record and laboratory studies, the objective and subjective data form the data base. The
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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 nurses next
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action should be to: JY JY JY




a. Immediately notify the patients physician. JY JY JY JY




b. Document the sound exactly as it was heard. JY JY JY JY JY JY JY




c. Validate the data by asking a coworker to listen to the breath sounds.JY JY JY JY JY JY JY JY JY JY JY JY




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 ensure
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accuracy. If the nurse has less experience in an area, then he or she asks an expert to listen.
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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 keep in
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mind that novice nurses, without a background of skills and experience from which to draw, are more likely to
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make their decisions using:
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a. Intuition.


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d. Advice from supervisors. JY JY




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Novice nurses operate from a set of defined, structured rules. The expert practitioner uses intuitive links. DIF:
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Cognitive Level: Understanding (Comprehension) JY JY JY




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MSC: Client Needs: General
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6. Expert nurses learn to attend to a pattern of assessment data and act without consciously labeling it. These
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responses are referred to as: JY JY JY JY




a. Intuition.


b. The nursing process. JY JY




c. Clinical knowledge. JY




d. Diagnostic reasoning. JY




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Intuition is characterized by pattern recognitionexpert nurses learn to attend to a pattern of assessment data and act
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without consciously labeling it. The other options are not correct.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Understanding (Comprehension)
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MSC: Client Needs: General
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7. The nurse is reviewing information about evidence-based practice (EBP). Which statement best reflects
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EBP?


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b. EBP is simply the use of best practice techniques for the treatment of patients.
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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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ANS: C JY




EBP is a systematic approach to practice that emphasizes the use of best evidence in combination with the clinicians
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experience, as well as patient preferences and values, when making decisions about care and treatment. EBP is
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more than simply using the best practice techniques to treat patients, and questioning tradition is important when
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no compelling and supportive research evidence exists.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Applying (Application)
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MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
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8. The nurse is conducting a class on priority setting for a group of new graduate nurses. Which is an example of a
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first-level priority problem? JY JY




a. Patient with postoperative pain JY JY JY




b. Newly diagnosed patient with diabetes who needs diabetic teaching
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