Chapter 1: Understanding Heaith Assessment
Chapter 2: Interviewing the Patient for the Heaith History Chapter 3: Taking the Heaith History
Chapter 4: Assessing Nutrition and Anthropometric Measurements Chapter 5: Assessment Techniques
Essential Heaith Assessment 2nd
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, Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Understanding Heaith Assessment
Chapter 2: Interviewing the Patient for the Heaith History
Chapter 3: Taking the Heaith History
Chapter 4: Assessing Nutrition and Anthropometric Measurements
Chapter 5: Assessment Techniques
Chapter 6: General Survey and Assessing Vital Signs
Chapter 7: Assessing Pain
Chapter 8: Assessing the Skin, Hair, and Nails
Chapter 9: Assessing the Head, Face, Mouth, and Neck
Chapter 10: Assessing the Ears
Chapter 11: Assessing the Eyes
Chapter 12: Assessing the Respiratory System
Chapter 13: Assessing the Cardiovascular System
Chapter 14: Assessing the Abdomen
Chapter 15: Assessing the Peripheral Vascular System and Regional Lymphatic System
Chapter 16: Assessing the Musculoskeletal System
Chapter 17: Assessing the Neurological System
Chapter 18: Assessing the Female Breasts, Axillae, and Reproductive System
Chapter 19: Assessing the Male Breasts and Reproductive System
Chapter 20: Assessing the Anus and Rectum
Chapter 21: Assessing the Newborn
Chapter 22: Assessing the Child and Adolescent
Chapter 23 Assessing the Pregnant Woman
Chapter 24: Assessing the Older Adult
,Chapter 1: Understanding Heaith Assessment
1. The World Heaith Organization (WHO) established a global strategy called “Heaith for All.”
The goal for this strategy is:
1. All Individuals To Get The Same Heaith Care Throughout Their Life Spans.
2. The Government To Supply Money To Care For All The People In The World.
3. Resources For Heaith Care To Be Evenly Distributed And Accessible.
4. Heaith-Care Providers Can Never Deny Patients Heaith Care.
2. Heaith Assessment Is A Foundational And Priority Nursing Skill. This Essential Skill
RequiresRegistered Nurses (Rns) To:
1. Diagnose And Treat Patients.
2. Identify Normal And Abnormal Findings.
3. Refer Patients With Abnormal Findings.
4. Counsel Patients With Psychosocial Needs.
3. You Are Assessing A Patient With Five Gunshot Wounds On A Trauma Unit. There Is
A Police Presence Outside His DoorGRADESMORE.COM
Because The Patient Is A Known Drug Dealer In The
Community. YouKnow That Nurses Must Treat All Patients As Persons. This Is Called:
1. Caring.
2. Holistic Process.
3. Person-Centered Care (PCC).
4. Standards Of Care.
4. The Science-Based Framework Updated Every 10 Years By The U.S. Department Of Heaith
AndHuman Services That Has Set National Goals And Objectives For Heaith Promotion And
Disease Prevention Is:
1. Heaithy People.
2. Heaithy People 2020.
3. U.S. Preventive Task Force.
4. World Heaith Organization.
5. A 38-Year-Old Male Has A Family History Of Colon Cancer. His Father Died Of Colon Cancer At Age
48. The Doctor Recommended That This Patient Have A Colonoscopy This Year. This Is An
ExampleOf:
1. Primary Heaith Prevention.
6. A patient in the hospital puts on his call light and tells the person answering that he “thinks he
is running a fever and has stomach discomfort.” You are the registered nurse in charge. What
should you do?
1. Ask the medical assistant to go to the patient’s room and assess his complaints.
2. Go check to see if the patient has an order for Tylenol for a fever.
3. Page the resident on call immediately to assess the patient.
4. Go to the patient’s room and assess for fever and the epigastric discomfort.
7. You are leading an interdisciplinary team conference to discuss how to provide better care for
a challenging patient who has behavioral problems. There are several areas that need to be
problem solved and new ideas formulated to create an improved plan of care. What cognitive
skills are you using?
1. Critical thinking
2. Clinical decision making
3. Intuitive thinking
4. Clinical reasoning
8. Best practice assessment techniques and instruments have been validated by:
1. American Nurses Association.
2. Code of Ethics for Nurses With Interpretive Statements.
3. Research and evidence-based practice.
4. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
9. Heaith and illness are determined by many factors. What are the determinants of Heaith
identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)? Select all that apply.
1. Genetics and biology
2. Gender and occupation
3. Individual behavior
4. Social environment
5. Physical environment
6. Heaith services
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