A patient asks why a health assessment needs to be done. What should the nurse respond to
this patient? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔"It determines your health status, risk factors
and educational needs to develop a plan of care."
Data collection occurs where in the nursing process? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰
✔✔Assessment
What is one-way nurses use critical thinking in regard to the nursing process? - **
VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Critical thinking helps nurses work through the analysis,
develop alternatives, and implement the best
interventions
The nurse is planning to interview a patient who is being treated for depression. When the
nurse enters the examination
room, the patient is sitting on the table with shoulders slumped. The nurse should plan to
approach this patient by: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔expressing interest in a neutral
manner.
What intervention should the nurse implement to regain control of the interview process
when the patient, reporting
abdominal pain monopolizes the conversation with unrelated information? - ** VERIFIED
ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Politely direct the interview in order to ask about the characteristics of
the pain.
Which type of question is asked first by the nurse in order to attain a full description of the
patient's symptoms and to
, generate and test diagnostic hypotheses? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔open-ended
questions to encourage the patient to tell his or her story
Safety must be considered at all times to protect the examiner and the patient against the
spread of infection. Which
statement describes the nurse's appropriate action when performing a physical
examination? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Wash hands before and after every physical
patient encounter
When preparing to examine a 4-year-old child the nurse needs to consider which action as
appropriate for this age
group? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Give the child feedback and reassurance during
the examination
Which statement is accurate regarding the inspection phase of the physical assessment?
Inspection: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔takes time and reveals a surprising amount of
information.
A 20-year-old construction worker is brought to the emergency department with symptoms
of heat stroke causing signs
of delirium. The nurse completes which of the following assessments first? - ** VERIFIED
ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Level of consciousness and cognitive abilities
A 22-year-old woman comes to the clinic at the insistence of her brother. She is wearing
black combat boots and a
black lace nightgown over the top of her other clothes. Her hair is dyed pink with black
streaks throughout. The nurse
concludes she: - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔more information should be gathered to
decide whether her dress is appropriate.
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