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Chapter 01 Understanding Health Assessment _____________________________________________________ 1
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Chapter 02 Interviewing the Patient for the Health History
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x g x g 11 Chapter 03 Taking the Health History _________________________________________ 40
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Chapter 04 Assessing Nutrition and Anthropometric Measurements
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g x g x 61 Chapter 05 Assessment Techniques _____________________________________________ 88
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Chapter 06 General Survey and Assessing Vital Signs
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x 99 Chapter 07 Assessing Pain ___________________ 128 g x gx gx gx gx




Chapter 08 Assessing the Skin, Hair, and Nails ___________________________________________________ 149
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Chapter 09 Assessing the Head, Face, Mouth, and Neck
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g x g x g 188 Chapter 10 Assessing the Ears _____________________________________________ 229
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Chapter 11 Assessing the Eyes _______________________________________________________________ 250
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Chapter 12 Assessing the Respiratory System
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Chapter 13 Assessing the Cardiovascular System
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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 All.”
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Th 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.gx gx gx gx gx gx gx




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1. This is incorrect. “Health for All” does not mean that all individuals get the same hea
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lth care throughout their life spans.
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2. This is incorrect. “Health for All” does not mean the government will supply money t
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o care for all the people in the world.
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3. This is correct. “Health for All” means that resources for health care are evenly distrib
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uted and accessible to everyone.
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4. This is incorrect. “Health for All” does not mean that health-
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care providers can deny patients health care.
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2. Health assessment is a foundational and priority nursing skill. This essential skill requires
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1. Diagnose and treat patients. gx gx gx



2. Identify normal and abnormal findings.
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3. Refer patients with abnormal findings.
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4. Counsel patients with psychosocial needs.
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1. This is incorrect. The role of the RN is not to diagnose and treat patients.
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2. This is correct. Assessing patients and being able to identify normal from abnormal finding
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s is an essential role of the RN.
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3. This is incorrect. RNs in collaboration with the health-
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care providers do refer patients. This is not the essential and foundational rol
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4. This is incorrect. RNs do counsel patients, but it is not the essential and foundational
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3. You are assessing a patient with five gunshot wounds on a trauma unit. There is a police presen
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ce outside his door because the patient is a known drug dealer in the community. You know that nu rs
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es must treat all patients as persons. This is called:
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1. This is incorrect. Caring is displaying a concern for patients.
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2. This is incorrect. The holistic caring process is a relational process; the nurse c ollaborates
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with the individual to pursue goals for health and well-being.
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3. This is correct. The new movement in health care is person-
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centered care (PCC), which emphasizes the intrinsic value of treating all patients
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4. This is incorrect. Standards of care identify standards of professional nursing practice
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4. The science-
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at has set national goals and objectives for health promotion and disease prevention is:
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3. U.S. Preventive Task Force.
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1. This is incorrect. Healthy People is the general title for the nation’s federal initiative.
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2. This is correct. Healthy People 2020 specifically identifies science-
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based, national goals and objectives with 10-
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year targets designed to guide national health promotion
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3. This is incorrect. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force’s goal is to use evidence-
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based medicine to improve the health of all Americans by making evidence-
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ng services, and preventive medications.
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4. This is incorrect. The World Health Organization is a specialized agency of the
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United Nations working to improve the health of the world’s people.
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