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Chapter 1: Understanding Health Assessment
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Chapter 2: Interviewing the Patient for the Health History Cha
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Chapter 4: Assessing Nutrition and Anthropometric Measurements Chapt
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Chapter 6: General Survey and Assessing Vital Signs Chapter
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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 Chapt
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Chapter 11: Assessing the Eyes z z z z
Chapter 12: Assessing the Respiratory System Chap
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14: Assessing the Abdomen
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Chapter 15: Assessing the Peripheral Vascular System and Regional Lymphatic System Chap
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ter 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 System Chapter
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19: Assessing the Male Breasts and Reproductive System
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Chapter 20: Assessing the Anus and Rectum Chapter
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21: Assessing the Newborn
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Chapter 22: Assessing the Child and Adolescent Cha
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Essential Health Assessment 2 Editio
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Chapter 1: Understanding Health Assessment
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Chapter 2: Interviewing the Patient for the Health History Cha
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pter 3: Taking the Health History
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Chapter 4: Assessing Nutrition and Anthropometric Measurements Chapt
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Chapter 6: General Survey and Assessing Vital Signs Chapter
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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 Chapt
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Chapter 11: Assessing the Eyes z z z z
Chapter 12: Assessing the Respiratory System Chap
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14: Assessing the Abdomen
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Chapter 15: Assessing the Peripheral Vascular System and Regional Lymphatic System Chap
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ter 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 System Chapter
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19: Assessing the Male Breasts and Reproductive System
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Chapter 20: Assessing the Anus and Rectum Chapter
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21: Assessing the Newborn
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Chapter 22: Assessing the Child and Adolescent Cha
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pter 23 Assessing the Pregnant Woman Chapter 24:
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Assessing the Older Adult z z z
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1. The World Health Organization (WHO) established a global strategy called ―Health for All.‖ Th
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e 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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4. Health-care providers can never deny patients health care. z z z z z z z
2. Health assessment is a foundational and priority nursing skill. This essential skill requires reg
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istered nurses (RNs) to:
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1. Diagnose and treat patients. z z z
2. Identify normal and abnormal findings. z z z z
3. Refer patients with abnormal findings.
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4. Counsel patients with psychosocial needs. z z z z
3. You are assessing a patient with five gunshot wounds on a trauma unit. There is a police pres
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ence outside his door because the patient is a known drug dealer in the community. You know th
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at 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). z z
4. Standards of care. z z
4. The science- z
based framework updated every 10 years by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services t
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hat has set national goals and objectives for health promotion and disease prevention is:
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1. Healthy People. z
2. Healthy People 2020. z z
3. U.S. Preventive Task Force.
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4. World Health Organization. z z
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 example of:
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1. Primary health prevention. z z
, 2. Secondary health prevention. z z
3. Tertiary health prevention. z z
6. A patient in the hospital puts on his call light and tells the person answering that he ―thinks he is ru
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nning a fever and has stomach discomfort.‖ You are the registered nurse in charge. What should yo
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u 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 for a c
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hallenging patient who has behavioral problems. There are several areas that need to be problem sol
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ved and new ideas formulated to create an improved plan of care. What cognitive skills are you usin
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g?
1. Critical thinking z
2. Clinical decision making z z
3. Intuitive thinking z
4. Clinical reasoning z
8. Best practice assessment techniques and instruments have been validated by:
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1. American Nurses Association. z z
2. Code of Ethics for Nurses With Interpretive Statements.
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3. Research and evidence-based practice. z z z
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 z z
2. Gender and occupation z z
3. Individual behavior z
4. Social environment z
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