JARVIS PHYSICAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT FINAL
EXAMS ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔facilitation - ✔✔examiner's response that encourages the patient to say more, to
continue with the story
✔✔geography privacy - ✔✔private room or space with only the examiner and patient
present
✔✔interpretation - ✔✔examiner's statement that is not based on direct observation, but
is based on examiner's inference or conclusion; links events, makes associations, or
implies cause
✔✔interview - ✔✔meeting between the examiner and patient with the goal of gathering
a complete health history
✔✔jargon - ✔✔medical vocabulary used with a patient in an exclusionary and
paternalistic way
✔✔leading question - ✔✔a question that implies that one answer would be better than
another
✔✔nonverbal communication - ✔✔message conveyed through body language -
posture, gestures, facial expression, eye contact, touch, and even where one places the
chairs
✔✔open-ended question - ✔✔asks for longer narrative information; unbiased; leaves
the person free to answer in any way
✔✔reflection - ✔✔examiner response that echoes the patient's words; repeats part of
what the patient has just said
, ✔✔summary - ✔✔final review of what examiner understands patient has said;
condenses facts and presents a survey of how the examiner perceives the health
problem or need
✔✔telegraphic speech - ✔✔speech used by age 3 or 4 years in which three- or four-
word sentences contain only the essential words
✔✔verbal communication - ✔✔messages sent through spoken words, vocalizations, or
tone of voice
✔✔amplitude - ✔✔(or intensity) how loud or soft a sound is
✔✔duration - ✔✔the length of time a note lingers
✔✔ophthalmoscope - ✔✔an instrument that illuminates the internal eye structures,
enabling the examiner to look through the pupil at the fundus (background) of the eye
✔✔otoscope - ✔✔an instrument that illuminates the ear canal, enabling the examiner to
look at the ear canal and tympanic membrane
✔✔pitch - ✔✔(or frequency) the number of vibrations (or cycles) per second of a note
✔✔quality - ✔✔(or timbre) a subjective difference in a sound as a result of the sound's
distinctive overtones
✔✔ subjective data - ✔✔what the person says about himself or herself during history
taking
✔✔objective date - ✔✔what you as the health professional observe by inspective,
percussing, palpating, and auscultating during the physical examination
✔✔database - ✔✔subjective data, objective data, patient's record, and laboratory
studies
✔✔diagnostic reasoning - ✔✔the process of analyzing health data and drawing
conclusions to identify diagnoses
✔✔nursing process - ✔✔the standards of practice in nursing :
- assessment
- diagnosis
- outcome identification
- planning
- implementation
- evaluation
EXAMS ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔facilitation - ✔✔examiner's response that encourages the patient to say more, to
continue with the story
✔✔geography privacy - ✔✔private room or space with only the examiner and patient
present
✔✔interpretation - ✔✔examiner's statement that is not based on direct observation, but
is based on examiner's inference or conclusion; links events, makes associations, or
implies cause
✔✔interview - ✔✔meeting between the examiner and patient with the goal of gathering
a complete health history
✔✔jargon - ✔✔medical vocabulary used with a patient in an exclusionary and
paternalistic way
✔✔leading question - ✔✔a question that implies that one answer would be better than
another
✔✔nonverbal communication - ✔✔message conveyed through body language -
posture, gestures, facial expression, eye contact, touch, and even where one places the
chairs
✔✔open-ended question - ✔✔asks for longer narrative information; unbiased; leaves
the person free to answer in any way
✔✔reflection - ✔✔examiner response that echoes the patient's words; repeats part of
what the patient has just said
, ✔✔summary - ✔✔final review of what examiner understands patient has said;
condenses facts and presents a survey of how the examiner perceives the health
problem or need
✔✔telegraphic speech - ✔✔speech used by age 3 or 4 years in which three- or four-
word sentences contain only the essential words
✔✔verbal communication - ✔✔messages sent through spoken words, vocalizations, or
tone of voice
✔✔amplitude - ✔✔(or intensity) how loud or soft a sound is
✔✔duration - ✔✔the length of time a note lingers
✔✔ophthalmoscope - ✔✔an instrument that illuminates the internal eye structures,
enabling the examiner to look through the pupil at the fundus (background) of the eye
✔✔otoscope - ✔✔an instrument that illuminates the ear canal, enabling the examiner to
look at the ear canal and tympanic membrane
✔✔pitch - ✔✔(or frequency) the number of vibrations (or cycles) per second of a note
✔✔quality - ✔✔(or timbre) a subjective difference in a sound as a result of the sound's
distinctive overtones
✔✔ subjective data - ✔✔what the person says about himself or herself during history
taking
✔✔objective date - ✔✔what you as the health professional observe by inspective,
percussing, palpating, and auscultating during the physical examination
✔✔database - ✔✔subjective data, objective data, patient's record, and laboratory
studies
✔✔diagnostic reasoning - ✔✔the process of analyzing health data and drawing
conclusions to identify diagnoses
✔✔nursing process - ✔✔the standards of practice in nursing :
- assessment
- diagnosis
- outcome identification
- planning
- implementation
- evaluation
