Physical Examination and Health Assessment
8th Edition by Carolyn Jarvis,
All Chapters 1 - 32
Physical Examination and Health Assessment
,TABLE OF CONTENTS
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1. After completing an initial assessment of a patient, the nurse has charted that his respirations are eupneic and his pu
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lse is 58 beats per minute. These types of data would be:
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g the physical examination. Subjective data is what the person says about him or herself during history taking. The ter
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ms reflective and introspective are not used to describe data.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Understanding (Comprehension)
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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.
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