NSG 121 Exam 1 | Health
Assessment Practice Questions and
Correct Answers Graded A+ |
Herzing
Levels of intervention to promote healthy change
- Correct Answer - Primary prevention
Secondary prevention
Tertiary prevention
Primary prevention
- Correct Answer - involves strategies aimed at preventing problems and
focuses on people and groups. Examples: Immunizations, health
teaching, safety precautions, and nutrition counselling, family planning
services, providing poison-control information, and accident-prevention
education
Secondary prevention
- Correct Answer - focus on screening for early detection of disease with
prompt diagnosis and treatment
Examples: Vision screening, Pap smears, BP screening, hearing testing,
scoliosis screening, and tuberculin skin testing
Tertiary prevention
,- Correct Answer - focuses on preventing complications of an existing
disease and promoting health to the highest level
Examples: Diet teaching, exercise programs, physical therapy,
medication, surgical treatment
What is health assessment?
- Correct Answer - gathering information about the health status of the
patient, analyzing and synthesizing those data, making judgments about
nursing interventions based on the findings, and evaluating patient care
outcomes
Health assessment includes
- Correct Answer - healthy history and physical assessment
Critical thinking in nursing
- Correct Answer - -Purposeful, outcome-directed (result-oriented)
thinking
-Is driven by patient, family, and community needs
-Is based on the nursing process, evidence-based thinking, and the
scientific method
-Requires specific knowledge, skills, and experience
-New nurses must question
-Guided by professional standards and ethic codes
-Is constantly reevaluating, self-correcting, and striving to improve
Health promotion
- Correct Answer - the behavior of a person who is motivated by a
personal desire to increase well-being and health potential
, All life-threatening problems identified during the initial assessment
require the initiation of critical interventions:
- Correct Answer - Provide assistance with circulation (cardiopulmonary
resuscitation if needed).
Open the patient's airway.
Assist the patient's breathing.
Protect the cervical spine if the patient is injured.
Ensure that the disoriented or suicidal patient is safe.
Provide pain management and sedation.
Functional assessment
- Correct Answer - focuses on the functional patterns that all humans
share: health perception and health management, activity and exercise,
nutrition and metabolism, elimination, sleep and rest, cognition and
perception, self-perception and self-concept, roles and relationships,
coping and stress tolerance, sexuality and reproduction, and values and
beliefs; used to collect subjective data and a head-to-toe approach for
the physical assessment
3 common types of nursing assessments
- Correct Answer - emergency
Comprehensive
Focused
Nurse's role in health assessment: 4 goals
- Correct Answer - promote health
Prevent illness
Treat human responses to health or illness
Advocate for individuals, families, communities, and populations
