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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 4: Assessing Nutrition and Anthropometric Measurements
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Chapter 6: General Survey and Assessing Vital Signs
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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 11: Assessing the Eyes
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Chapter 12: Assessing the Respiratory System
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Chapter 15: Assessing the Peripheral Vascular System and Regional Lymphatic System
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Chapter 17: Assessing the Neurological System
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Chapter 18: Assessing the Female Breasts, Axillae, and Reproductive System
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Chapter 19: Assessing the Male Breasts and Reproductive
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Chapter 21: Assessing the Newborn
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Chapter 22: Assessing the Child and Adolescent
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All.‖ The goal for this strategy is:
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3. Resources for health care to be evenly distributed and accessible.
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unit. There is a police presence outside his door because the patient is a known
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drug dealer in the community. You know that nurses must treat all patients as
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persons. This is called:
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Health and Human Services that has set national goals and objectives for health
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promotion and disease prevention is:
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―thinks he is running a fever and has stomach discomfort.‖ You are the registered
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nurse in charge. What should you do?
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3. Page the resident on call immediately to assess the patient.
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care for a challenging patient who has behavioral problems. There are several areas that
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need to be problem solved and new ideas formulated to create an improved plan of
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care. What cognitive skills are you using?
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identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)? Select all that apply.
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EssentialHealthAssessment2
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 4: Assessing Nutrition and Anthropometric Measurements
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Chapter 6: General Survey and Assessing Vital Signs
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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 11: Assessing the Eyes
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Chapter 12: Assessing the Respiratory System
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Chapter 17: Assessing the Neurological System
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Chapter 18: Assessing the Female Breasts, Axillae, and Reproductive System
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Chapter 19: Assessing the Male Breasts and Reproductive
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All.‖ The 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.
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2. Health assessment is a foundational and priority nursing skill. This essential
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skill requires registered nurses (RNs) to:
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1. Diagnose and treat patients. bf bf bf
2. Identify normal and abnormal findings. bf bf bf bf
3. Refer patients with abnormal findings.
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4. Counsel patients with psychosocial needs. bf bf bf bf
3. You are assessing a patient with five gunshot wounds on a trauma
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unit. There is a police presence outside his door because the patient is a known
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drug dealer in the community. You know that nurses must treat all patients as
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persons. This is called:
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1. Caring.
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4. Standards of care. bf bf
4. The science-based framework updated every 10 years by the U.S. Department of
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Health and Human Services that has set national goals and objectives for health
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promotion and disease prevention is:
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1. Healthy People. bf
2. Healthy People 2020. bf bf
3. U.S. Preventive Task Force.
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4. World Health Organization. bf bf
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
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example of:
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1. Primary health prevention. bf bf
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6. A patient in the hospital puts on his call light and tells the person answering that he
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―thinks he is running a fever and has stomach discomfort.‖ You are the registered
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nurse in charge. What 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
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care for a challenging patient who has behavioral problems. There are several areas that
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need to be problem solved and new ideas formulated to create an improved plan of
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care. What cognitive skills are you using?
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1. Critical thinking bf
2. Clinical decision making bf bf
3. Intuitive thinking bf
4. Clinical reasoning bf
8. Best practice assessment techniques and instruments have been validated by:
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1. American Nurses Association. bf bf
2. Code of Ethics for Nurses With Interpretive Statements.
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3. Research and evidence-based practice. bf bf bf
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 bf bf
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