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Chapter 01 Understanding Health Assessment
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Chapter 02 Interviewing the Patient for the Health History
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Chapter 03 Taking the Health History
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Chapter 04 Assessing Nutrition and Anthropometric Measurements
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Chapter 05 Assessment Techniques
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Chapter 06 General Survey and Assessing Vital Signs
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Chapter 07 Assessing Pain
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Chapter 08 Assessing the Skin, Hair, and Nails
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Chapter 09 Assessing the Head, Face, Mouth, and Neck
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Chapter nk 10 nk Assessing the
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Chapter nk 11 nk Assessing the
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Chapter nk 12 nk Assessing the
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Chapter 14 Assessing the Abdomen
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Chapter 15 Assessing the Peripheral Vascular System and Regional Lymphatic System
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Chapter 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
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Chapter 19 Assessing the Male Breasts and Reproductive System
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Chapter 20 Assessing the Anus and Rectum
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Chapter 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 24 Assessing the Older Adult
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Chapter 1: Understanding Health Assessment
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1. The World Health Organization (WHO) established a global strategy called ―Health for
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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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4. Health-care providers can never deny patients health care.
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2. Health assessment is a foundational and priority nursing skill. This essential skill
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4. Counsel patients with psychosocial needs.
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police presence outside his door because the patient is a known drug dealer in the community.
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You know that nurses must treat all patients as persons. This is called:
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4. The science-based framework updated every 10 years by the U.S. Department of Health
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and Human Services that has set national goals and objectives for health promotion
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and disease prevention is:
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6. A patient in the hospital puts on his call light and tells the person answering that he ―thinks
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he is running a fever and has stomach discomfort.‖ You are the registered nurse in charge.
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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
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for a challenging patient who has behavioral problems. There are several areas that need to
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Essential Health Assessment
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Chapter 01 Understanding Health Assessment
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Chapter 02 Interviewing the Patient for the Health History
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Chapter 03 Taking the Health History
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Chapter 04 Assessing Nutrition and Anthropometric Measurements
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Chapter 05 Assessment Techniques
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Chapter 06 General Survey and Assessing Vital Signs
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Chapter 07 Assessing Pain
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Chapter 08 Assessing the Skin, Hair, and Nails
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Chapter 09 Assessing the Head, Face, Mouth, and Neck
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Chapter nk 10 nk Assessing the
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Chapter 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
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Chapter 19 Assessing the Male Breasts and Reproductive System
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Chapter 20 Assessing the Anus and Rectum
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Chapter 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 24 Assessing the Older Adult
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Chapter 1: Understanding Health Assessment
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1. The World Health Organization (WHO) established a global strategy called ―Health for
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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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4. Health-care providers can never deny patients health care.
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2. Health assessment is a foundational and priority nursing skill. This essential skill
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requires registered nurses (RNs) to:
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1. Diagnose and treat patients. nk nk nk
2. Identify normal and abnormal findings. nk nk nk nk
3. Refer patients with abnormal findings.
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4. Counsel patients with psychosocial needs.
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3. You are assessing a patient with five gunshot wounds on a trauma unit. There is a
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police presence outside his door because the patient is a known drug dealer in the community.
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You know that nurses must treat all patients as persons. This is called:
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1. Caring.
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4. The science-based framework updated every 10 years by the U.S. Department of Health
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and Human Services that has set national goals and objectives for health promotion
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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 example of:
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he is running a fever and has stomach discomfort.‖ You are the registered nurse in charge.
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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 care
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for a challenging patient who has behavioral problems. There are several areas that need to
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be problem solved and new ideas formulated to create an improved plan of care. What
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cognitive skills are you using?
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8. Best practice assessment techniques and instruments have been validated by:
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2. Codeof Ethics for Nurses With Interpretive Statements.
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