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ESSENTIAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT SECOND EDITION BY JANICE THOMPSON (AUTHOR) LATEST UPDATE.

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ESSENTIAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT SECOND EDITION BY JANICE THOMPSON (AUTHOR) LATEST UPDATE.

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ESSENTIAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT
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ESSENTIAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT

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, TableofContents
Chapter 1: Understanding Health Assessment
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Chapter 2: Interviewing the Patient forthe Health History
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VF Chapter 3: Taking the Health History
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Chapter 4: Assessing Nutrition and Anthropometric Measurements
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VF Chapter 5: Assessment Techniques
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Chapter 6: General Survey and Assessing Vital Signs
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VF Chapter 7: Assessing Pain VF V F VF




Chapter 8: Assessing the Skin, Hair, and Nails
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VF Chapter 9: Assessing the Head, Face, Mouth, and
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VF Neck 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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VF Chapter 14: Assessing the Abdomen
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Chapter 15: Assessing the Peripheral Vascular System and Regional Lymphatic
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VF System Chapter 16: Assessing the Musculoskeletal System
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Chapter 17: Assessing the Neurological System
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Chapter 18: Assessingthe Female Breasts, Axillae,and Reproductive
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System Chapter
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Chapter 21: Assessing the Newborn
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V F Chapter 22: Assessing the Child and
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1. TheWorld Health Organization (WHO) established a global strategy called ―Health
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for 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
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3. Resources for health care to be evenly distributed and accessible.
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4. Health-careproviders can never deny patients health care. V
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2. Health assessment is a foundational and priority nursing skill. This
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essential skill requires registered nurses (RNs) to:
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1. Diagnose and treat patients. VF V F V F



2. Identify normal and abnormal findings. VF V F V F V F



3. Refer patients with abnormal findings.
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4. Counsel patients with psychosocial needs. VF V F V F V F




3. You are assessing a V patient
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outside his door because the patient is a known drug dealer in the
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community. You know that nurses must treat all patients as persons. This
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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. VF



2. HealthyPeople 2020. VF



3. U.S. Preventive Task Force. VF VF V F



4. World Health Organization. VF VF




5. A 38-year-old male has a family history of colon cancer. His father died of
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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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3. Tertiary health prevention. VF V F




6. A patient in the hospital puts on his call light and tells the person answering
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that he
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―thinks he is running a fever and has stomach discomfort.‖ You are the
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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
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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
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provide better care for a challenging patient who has behavioral problems.
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using?
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8. Best practice assessment techniques and instruments have been validated
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2. Code of Ethics for Nurses With Interpretive Statements.
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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
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health
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identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)? Select all that apply.
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6. Health services VF

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