NUR 3069 - Communication and Health Assessment Exam 1 Questions and Answers Graded
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Subjective data - Answers What the person says about himself or herself during history taking
Objective data - Answers What you as the health professional observe by inspecting, percussing,
palpating, and auscultating during the physical examination
Diagnostic reasoning - Answers The process of analyzing health data and drawing conclusions
to identify diagnoses
Hypothetico-deductive process - Answers Attending to initially available cues, formulating
diagnostic hypotheses, gathering data relative to tentative hypotheses, and evaluating each
hypothesis with the new data collected, thus arriving at a final diagnosis
Cue - Answers A piece of information, a sign or symptom, or a piece of laboratory data
Hypothesis - Answers A tentative explanation for a cue or set of cues that can be used as a
basis for further investigation
novice - Answers A ________ has no experience and uses rules to guide performance. They have
little situation perception or discretionary judgement.
advanced beginner - Answers An _____________ ______________ relies on guidelines for actions
based on attributes; situational perception is still limited, no discrimination between one finding
and another.
competent - Answers A _____________ nurse is coping with crowdedness. They now see actions
in terms of long-term goals and use of planning and standardized patient procedures.
proficient - Answers A _____________ nurse understands a patient situation as a whole rather
than as a list of tasks. They can identify what is most important to target.
expert - Answers An _________ nurse vaults over steps and arrives at a clinical judgment in one
leap by using intuition. They use future orientation and vision of what is possible.
first - Answers Emergent, life threatening, and immediate problems such as establish an airway
or supporting breathing are examples of _________-level priority problems.
second - Answers Problems that require intervention to forestall further deterioration are
examples of _________-level priority problems. These include problems with mental status
change, acute pain, or untreated medical problems.
third - Answers _________-level priority problems are important to a patient's health but can be
addressed after more urgent health problems. These are more long-term.
Collaborative - Answers ____________ problems are those in which the approach to treatment
,involves multiple disciplines.
evidence-based - Answers Conviction that all patients deserve to be treated with the most
current and best-practice techniques led to the development of ____________ practice.
EBP - Answers _______ is a systematic approach to practice that emphasizes the use of the best
evidence in combination with the clinician's experience, as well as the patient's preferences and
values, to make decisions about care and treatment.
Complete/total health - Answers Database that includes a complete health history and a full
physical examination. It describes the current and past health state and forms a baseline
against which all future changes can be measured. It yields the first diagnoses. This is collected
in a primary care setting usually.
Focused or Problem-Centered - Answers Collect a "mini" database targeted usually on one
problem or body system. It is used in all settings- hospital, primary care, or long-term care
Emergency - Answers Urgent, rapid collection of crucial information and compiled concurrently
with lifesaving measures
holistic - Answers Consideration of the whole person is the essence of _________ health. It views
the mind, body, and spirit as interdependent and functioning as a whole within the environment.
Emerging minority - Answers ___________ __________ is a term used to describe all the minorities
that are rapidly becoming the numeric majority.
Cultural - Answers ____________ assessment must be an integral component of a complete
physical and health assessment.
37, Hispanic, Black - Answers In 2011, emerging majority totaled ____% of the population.
Largest ethnic group was _________ and largest racial minority was _________.
Poverty - Answers __________ has the greatest influence on health status.
Healthy People 2020 - Answers ______________ addresses multiple determinants of health and
has goals to eliminate health disparities.
African Americans - Answers ___________ have the 7 largest health care disparities including
gonorrhea, congenital syphilis, new cases of AIDS, death from AIDS, firearm-related injuries, new
cases of TB, homicides, and drug-induced deaths.
Non-hispanic whites - Answers ___________ had the highest rates for drug-induced deaths, death
from cirrhosis, death from poisoning, smoking in pregnant women, physical assault, chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease, binge drinking among high schoolers, fire-arm related deaths,
steroid use among 10th grades, and prostate cancer deaths.
Effective - Answers _____________ care results in positive outcomes and satisfaction for the
, patient.
Respectful - Answers ____________ care takes into consideration values, preferences, and
expressed needs of the patient.
Cultural and linguistic - Answers ____________ and ______________ competence is a set of
congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come together run a system among
professionals that enables work in cross-cultural situations.
VI - Answers Under provisions of Title _______ of Civil Rights Act of 1964, when people with LEP
seek health care in settings such as hospitals, nursing homes, or daycares, services cannot be
denied to them.
Culture - Answers __________ is a pattern of shared attitudes, beliefs, self-defintions, norms,
roles, and values that can occur among those who speak a particular language or live in a
defined geographic region.
Socialization or enculturation - Answers ______________ is the process of being raised within a
culture and acquiring the norms, values, and behaviors of that group.
Culture - Answers ___________ has four basic characteristics: learned from birth through the
processes of language acquisition and socialization, shared by all members of the same
cultural group, adapted to specific conditions related to environmental and technical factors and
to the availability of natural resources, and dynamic and ever changing.
Race - Answers _________ reflects self-identification by people according to race or races with
which they closely identify.
Ethnicity - Answers ___________ refers to a social group that may possess shared traits such as
a common geographic origin, migratory status, religion, language, values, traditions or symbols,
and food preferences.
Acculturation - Answers ___________ is the process of social and psychological exchanges that
take place when there are ongoing encounters between individuals of different cultures, with
subsequent changes in either or both groups.
Assimilation - Answers Taking on characteristics of dominant culture
Biculturalism/integration - Answers Forging identities between countries
Acculturative stress - Answers The losses and changes that occur when adjusting to or
integrating a new system of beliefs, routines, and social roles are known as ____________ _______.
Spirituality - Answers ___________ is borne out of each person's unique life experience and his or
her personal effort to find purpose and meaning in life.
Religion - Answers ____________ refers to an organized system of beliefs concerning the cause,
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Subjective data - Answers What the person says about himself or herself during history taking
Objective data - Answers What you as the health professional observe by inspecting, percussing,
palpating, and auscultating during the physical examination
Diagnostic reasoning - Answers The process of analyzing health data and drawing conclusions
to identify diagnoses
Hypothetico-deductive process - Answers Attending to initially available cues, formulating
diagnostic hypotheses, gathering data relative to tentative hypotheses, and evaluating each
hypothesis with the new data collected, thus arriving at a final diagnosis
Cue - Answers A piece of information, a sign or symptom, or a piece of laboratory data
Hypothesis - Answers A tentative explanation for a cue or set of cues that can be used as a
basis for further investigation
novice - Answers A ________ has no experience and uses rules to guide performance. They have
little situation perception or discretionary judgement.
advanced beginner - Answers An _____________ ______________ relies on guidelines for actions
based on attributes; situational perception is still limited, no discrimination between one finding
and another.
competent - Answers A _____________ nurse is coping with crowdedness. They now see actions
in terms of long-term goals and use of planning and standardized patient procedures.
proficient - Answers A _____________ nurse understands a patient situation as a whole rather
than as a list of tasks. They can identify what is most important to target.
expert - Answers An _________ nurse vaults over steps and arrives at a clinical judgment in one
leap by using intuition. They use future orientation and vision of what is possible.
first - Answers Emergent, life threatening, and immediate problems such as establish an airway
or supporting breathing are examples of _________-level priority problems.
second - Answers Problems that require intervention to forestall further deterioration are
examples of _________-level priority problems. These include problems with mental status
change, acute pain, or untreated medical problems.
third - Answers _________-level priority problems are important to a patient's health but can be
addressed after more urgent health problems. These are more long-term.
Collaborative - Answers ____________ problems are those in which the approach to treatment
,involves multiple disciplines.
evidence-based - Answers Conviction that all patients deserve to be treated with the most
current and best-practice techniques led to the development of ____________ practice.
EBP - Answers _______ is a systematic approach to practice that emphasizes the use of the best
evidence in combination with the clinician's experience, as well as the patient's preferences and
values, to make decisions about care and treatment.
Complete/total health - Answers Database that includes a complete health history and a full
physical examination. It describes the current and past health state and forms a baseline
against which all future changes can be measured. It yields the first diagnoses. This is collected
in a primary care setting usually.
Focused or Problem-Centered - Answers Collect a "mini" database targeted usually on one
problem or body system. It is used in all settings- hospital, primary care, or long-term care
Emergency - Answers Urgent, rapid collection of crucial information and compiled concurrently
with lifesaving measures
holistic - Answers Consideration of the whole person is the essence of _________ health. It views
the mind, body, and spirit as interdependent and functioning as a whole within the environment.
Emerging minority - Answers ___________ __________ is a term used to describe all the minorities
that are rapidly becoming the numeric majority.
Cultural - Answers ____________ assessment must be an integral component of a complete
physical and health assessment.
37, Hispanic, Black - Answers In 2011, emerging majority totaled ____% of the population.
Largest ethnic group was _________ and largest racial minority was _________.
Poverty - Answers __________ has the greatest influence on health status.
Healthy People 2020 - Answers ______________ addresses multiple determinants of health and
has goals to eliminate health disparities.
African Americans - Answers ___________ have the 7 largest health care disparities including
gonorrhea, congenital syphilis, new cases of AIDS, death from AIDS, firearm-related injuries, new
cases of TB, homicides, and drug-induced deaths.
Non-hispanic whites - Answers ___________ had the highest rates for drug-induced deaths, death
from cirrhosis, death from poisoning, smoking in pregnant women, physical assault, chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease, binge drinking among high schoolers, fire-arm related deaths,
steroid use among 10th grades, and prostate cancer deaths.
Effective - Answers _____________ care results in positive outcomes and satisfaction for the
, patient.
Respectful - Answers ____________ care takes into consideration values, preferences, and
expressed needs of the patient.
Cultural and linguistic - Answers ____________ and ______________ competence is a set of
congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come together run a system among
professionals that enables work in cross-cultural situations.
VI - Answers Under provisions of Title _______ of Civil Rights Act of 1964, when people with LEP
seek health care in settings such as hospitals, nursing homes, or daycares, services cannot be
denied to them.
Culture - Answers __________ is a pattern of shared attitudes, beliefs, self-defintions, norms,
roles, and values that can occur among those who speak a particular language or live in a
defined geographic region.
Socialization or enculturation - Answers ______________ is the process of being raised within a
culture and acquiring the norms, values, and behaviors of that group.
Culture - Answers ___________ has four basic characteristics: learned from birth through the
processes of language acquisition and socialization, shared by all members of the same
cultural group, adapted to specific conditions related to environmental and technical factors and
to the availability of natural resources, and dynamic and ever changing.
Race - Answers _________ reflects self-identification by people according to race or races with
which they closely identify.
Ethnicity - Answers ___________ refers to a social group that may possess shared traits such as
a common geographic origin, migratory status, religion, language, values, traditions or symbols,
and food preferences.
Acculturation - Answers ___________ is the process of social and psychological exchanges that
take place when there are ongoing encounters between individuals of different cultures, with
subsequent changes in either or both groups.
Assimilation - Answers Taking on characteristics of dominant culture
Biculturalism/integration - Answers Forging identities between countries
Acculturative stress - Answers The losses and changes that occur when adjusting to or
integrating a new system of beliefs, routines, and social roles are known as ____________ _______.
Spirituality - Answers ___________ is borne out of each person's unique life experience and his or
her personal effort to find purpose and meaning in life.
Religion - Answers ____________ refers to an organized system of beliefs concerning the cause,
