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Edition Thompson Test Bank
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Chapter 1: Understanding Health Assessment
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Chapter 2: Interviewing the Patient for the Health History
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Chapter 3: Taking the Health History
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Chapter 4: Assessing Nutrition and Anthropometric Measurements
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Chapter 5: Assessment Techniques
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Chapter 6: General Survey and Assessing Vital SignsChapter
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7: Assessing Pain
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Chapter 8: Assessing the Skin, Hair, and Nails
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Chapter 9: Assessing the Head, Face, Mouth, and Neck
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Chapter 10: Assessing the Ears
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Chapter 11: Assessing the Eyes
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Chapter 12: Assessing the Respiratory System
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Chapter 14: Assessing the Abdomen
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Chapter 15: Assessing the Peripheral Vascular System and Regional Lymphatic SystemChapter
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16: Assessing the Musculoskeletal System
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Chapter 17: Assessing the Neurological System
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Chapter 18: Assessing the Female Breasts, Axillae, and Reproductive SystemChapter
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19: Assessing the Male Breasts and Reproductive System
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Chapter 20: Assessing the Anus and RectumChapter
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21: Assessing the Newborn
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Chapter 22: Assessing the Child and Adolescent
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Chapter 23 Assessing the Pregnant Woman
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,Chapter 1: Understanding Health Assessment r r r r
1. The World Health Organization (WHO) established a global strategy called “Health for All.”The
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goal for this strategy is:
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1. All individuals to get the same health care throughout their life spans.
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2. The government to supply money to care for all the people in the world.
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3. Resources for health care to be evenly distributed and accessible. r r r r r r r r r
4. Health-care providers can never deny patients health care. r r r r r r r
2. Health assessment is a foundational and priority nursing skill. This essential skill requires
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registered nurses (RNs) to:
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1. Diagnose and treat patients. r r r
2. Identify normal and abnormal findings. r r r r
3. Refer patients with abnormal findings.
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4. Counsel patients with psychosocial needs. r r r r
3. You are assessing a patient with five gunshot wounds on a trauma unit. There is a police
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presence outside his door because theGRADESMORE.COM
r patient is a known drug dealer in the community. You
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know that nurses must treat all patients as persons. This is called:
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1. Caring.
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3. Person-centered care (PCC). r r
4. Standards of care. r r
4. The science-based framework updated every 10 years by the U.S. Department of Health and
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Human Services that has set national goals and objectives for health promotion and disease
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prevention is:
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1. Healthy People. r
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3. U.S. Preventive Task Force. r r r
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5. A 38-year-old male has a family history of colon cancer. His father died of colon cancer at age
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48. The doctor recommended that this patient have a colonoscopy this year. This is an exampleof:
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1. Primary health prevention. r r
, 2. Secondary health prevention. r r
3. Tertiary health prevention. r r
6. A patient in the hospital puts on his call light and tells the person answering that he “thinks heis
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running a fever and has stomach discomfort.” You are the registered nurse in charge. What
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should you do?
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1. Ask the medical assistant to go to the patient’s room and assess his complaints.
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2. Go check to see if the patient has an order for Tylenol for a fever.
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3. Page the resident on call immediately to assess the patient.
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4. Go to the patient’s room and assess for fever and the epigastric discomfort.
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7. You are leading an interdisciplinary team conference to discuss how to provide better care fora
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challenging patient who has behavioral problems. There are several areas that need to be problem
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solved and new ideas formulated to create an improved plan of care. What cognitive skills are you
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using?
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8. Best practice assessment techniques and instruments have been validated by:
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1. American Nurses Association. r r
2. Code of Ethics for Nurses With Interpretive Statements.
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3. Research and evidence-based practice. r r r
4. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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9. Health and illness are determined by many factors. What are the determinants of health
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identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)? Select all that apply.
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1. Genetics and biology r r
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