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Test Bank for Physical Examination and Health Assessment
9th Edition by Carolyn Jarvis, Ann
, PHYSICAL EXAMINATION AND HEALTH ASSESSMENT 9TH EDITION JARVIS TEST BANK
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Test Bank - Physical Examination and Health Assessment 9e (by Jarvis)
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Chapter 01: Evidence-Based Assessment = = =
MULTIPLE CHOICE =
1. After completing an initial assessment of a patient, the nurse has charted that his respirations are eupneic andh
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is pulse is 58 beats per minute. These types of data would be:
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a. Objective.
b. Reflective.
c. Subjective.
d. Introspective.
ANS: A =
Objective data are what the health professional observes by inspecting, percussing, palpating, and auscultating dur
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ing the physical examination. Subjective data is what the person says about him or herself during history taking. T
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he terms reflective and introspective are not used to describe data.
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MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
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2. A patient tells the nurse that he is very nervous, is nausea.CteOdM
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a. Objective.
b. Reflective.
c. Subjective.
d. Introspective.
ANS: C =
Subjective data are what the person says about him or herself during history taking. Objective data are what theh
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ealth professional observes by inspecting, percussing, palpating, and auscultating during the physical examination
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. The terms reflective and introspective are not used to describe data.
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MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
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4. When listening to a patients breath sounds, the nurse is unsure of a sound that is heard. The nurses nexta
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ction should be to: = = =
a. Immediately notify the patients physician. = = = =
b. Document the sound exactly as it was heard. = = = = = = =
c. Validate the data by asking a coworker to listen to the breath sounds.
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d. Assess again in 20 minutes to note whether the sound is still present.
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ANS: C =
When unsure of a sound heard while listening to a patients breath sounds, the nurse validates the data to ensureaccurac
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y. If the nurse has less experience in an area, then he or she asks an expert to listen.
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MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
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5. The nurse is conducting a class for new graduate nurses. During the teaching session, the nurse should keep in
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mind that novice nurses, without a background of skills and experience from which to draw, are more likelyto m
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ake their decisions using:
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a. Intuition.
b. A set of rules.
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c. Articles in journals. = =
d. Advice from supervisors. = =
ANS: B =
Novice nurses operate from a set of defined, structured rules. The expert practitioner uses intuitive links.DIF:
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8. The nurse is conducting a class on priority setting for a group of new graduate nurses. Which is an exampleo
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f a first-level priority problem?
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a. Patient with postoperative pain
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b. Newly diagnosed patient with diabetes who needs diabetic teaching
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