Test Bank - Essential Health Assessment, 2nd edition
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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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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. r r r r r r r
2. Health assessment is a foundational and priority nursing skill. This essential skill requires
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registered nurses (RNs) to:
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1. Diagnose and treat patients. r r r
2. Identify normal and abnormal findings. r r r r
3. Refer patients with abnormal findings.
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4. Counsel patients with psychosocial needs. r r r r
3. You are assessing a patient with five gunshot wounds on a trauma unit. There is a police
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know that 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). r r
4. Standards of care. r r
4. The science-based framework updated every 10 years by the U.S. Department of Health and
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Human Services that has set national goals and objectives for health promotion and disease
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prevention is:
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1. Healthy People. r
2. Healthy People 2020. r r
3. U.S. Preventive Task Force.
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4. World Health Organization. r r
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. r r
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6. A patient in the hospital puts on his call light and tells the person answering that he “thinks he is
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running a fever and has stomach discomfort.” You are the registered nurse in charge. What should
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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 for a
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challenging patient who has behavioral problems. There are several areas that need to be problem
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solved and new ideas formulated to create an improved plan of care. What cognitive skills are you
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using?
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8. Best practice assessment techniques and instruments have been validated by:
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1. American Nurses Association. r r
2. Code of Ethics for Nurses With Interpretive Statements.
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3. Research and evidence-based practice. r r r
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 r r
2. Gender and occupation r r
3. Individual behavior r
4. Social environment r
5. Physical environment r
6. Health services r
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10. The U.S. health-care system is evolving, and care is becoming more focused on which of the
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following? Select all that apply.
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1. Wellness
2. Functional status r
3. Disease prevention r
4. Health promotion r
5. Acute illness management r r
11. You are performing a health assessment on a 32-year-old female patient who reports “feeling
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fatigued all the time.” She states, “I have not had a physical in over 8 years because I did not
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have medical insurance.” The patient will be having a physical today. What will be part of the
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health assessment? Select all that apply.
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1. Collecting data on past health r r r r
2. Collecting data on present health r r r r
3. Collecting data on significant other’s health r r r r r
4. Assessing factors influencing health r r r
5. Performing a physical examination r r r
12. You are working with a patient as a copartner in care. The patient has multiple medical
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problems. Put the following steps of the nursing process in the correct order (1–5). (Enter the
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number of each step in the proper sequence; do not use punctuation or spaces. Example: 1234.)
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1. Planning
2. Evaluation
3. Assessment
4. Implementation
5. Diagnosis
13. You are working on a medical surgical unit and are caring for a 24-year-old patient who is 3
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hours post-op. The patient seems confused and restless since you assessed her an hour ago. You
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have a gut feeling that something is very wrong. This is an example of
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thinking.
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14. The four techniques of health assessment include inspection, palpation, percussion, and
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r (Thompson), Chapter 1-24 | All Chapters
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TEST BANK r
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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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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. r r r r r r r
2. Health assessment is a foundational and priority nursing skill. This essential skill requires
r r r r r r r r r r r r
registered nurses (RNs) to:
r r r r
1. Diagnose and treat patients. r r r
2. Identify normal and abnormal findings. r r r r
3. Refer patients with abnormal findings.
r r r r
4. Counsel patients with psychosocial needs. r r r r
3. You are assessing a patient with five gunshot wounds on a trauma unit. There is a police
r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r
presence outside his door because theGRADESMORE.COM
r patient is a known drug dealer in the community. You
r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r
know that nurses must treat all patients as persons. This is called:
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1. Caring.
2. Holistic process. r
3. Person-centered care (PCC). r r
4. Standards of care. r r
4. The science-based framework updated every 10 years by the U.S. Department of Health and
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Human Services that has set national goals and objectives for health promotion and disease
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prevention is:
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1. Healthy People. r
2. Healthy People 2020. r r
3. U.S. Preventive Task Force.
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4. World Health Organization. r r
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. r r
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2. Secondary health prevention. r r
3. Tertiary health prevention. r r
6. A patient in the hospital puts on his call light and tells the person answering that he “thinks he is
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running a fever and has stomach discomfort.” You are the registered nurse in charge. What should
r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r
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 for a
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challenging patient who has behavioral problems. There are several areas that need to be problem
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solved and new ideas formulated to create an improved plan of care. What cognitive skills are you
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using?
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1. Critical thinking r
2. Clinical decision making r r
3. Intuitive thinking r
4. Clinical reasoning GRADESMORE.COM
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8. Best practice assessment techniques and instruments have been validated by:
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1. American Nurses Association. r r
2. Code of Ethics for Nurses With Interpretive Statements.
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3. Research and evidence-based practice. r r r
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 r r
2. Gender and occupation r r
3. Individual behavior r
4. Social environment r
5. Physical environment r
6. Health services r
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10. The U.S. health-care system is evolving, and care is becoming more focused on which of the
r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r
following? Select all that apply.
r r r r r
1. Wellness
2. Functional status r
3. Disease prevention r
4. Health promotion r
5. Acute illness management r r
11. You are performing a health assessment on a 32-year-old female patient who reports “feeling
r r r r r r r r r r r r r
fatigued all the time.” She states, “I have not had a physical in over 8 years because I did not
r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r
have medical insurance.” The patient will be having a physical today. What will be part of the
r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r
health assessment? Select all that apply.
r r r r r r
1. Collecting data on past health r r r r
2. Collecting data on present health r r r r
3. Collecting data on significant other’s health r r r r r
4. Assessing factors influencing health r r r
5. Performing a physical examination r r r
12. You are working with a patient as a copartner in care. The patient has multiple medical
r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r
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problems. Put the following steps of the nursing process in the correct order (1–5). (Enter the
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number of each step in the proper sequence; do not use punctuation or spaces. Example: 1234.)
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1. Planning
2. Evaluation
3. Assessment
4. Implementation
5. Diagnosis
13. You are working on a medical surgical unit and are caring for a 24-year-old patient who is 3
r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r r
hours post-op. The patient seems confused and restless since you assessed her an hour ago. You
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have a gut feeling that something is very wrong. This is an example of
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thinking.
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14. The four techniques of health assessment include inspection, palpation, percussion, and
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.
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