Bates’ Guide To Physical Examination and History
Taking 13th Edition Bickley Test Bank latest updated
,CHAPTER 1
Foundations for Clinical Proficiency
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. After completing an initial assessment of a patient, the nurse has charted that his
respirations are eupneic and his pulse is 58 beats per minute. These types of data
would be:
a. Objective.
b. Reflective.
c. Subjective.
d. Introspective.
ANSWER: A
Objective data are what the health professional observes by inspecting, percussing, palpating,
and auscultating during the physical examination. Subjective data is what the person says about
him or herself during history taking. The terms reflective and introspective are not used to
describe data.
2. A patient tells the nurse that he is very nervous, is nauseated, and feels hot. These
types of data would be:
a Objective.
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b Reflective.
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c Subjective.
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d Introspective.
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ANSWER: C
Subjective data are what the person says about him or herself during history taking. Objective data
are what the health professional observes by inspecting, percussing, palpating, and auscultating
,during the physical examination. The terms reflective and introspective are not used to describe
data.
3. The patients record, laboratory studies, objective data, and subjective data combine
to form the:
a Data base.
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b Admitting data.
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c Financial statement.
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d Discharge summary.
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ANSWER: A
Together with the patients record and laboratory studies, the objective and subjective data
form the data base. The other items are not part of the patients record, laboratory studies, or
data.
4. When listening to a patients breath sounds, the nurse is unsure of a sound that
is heard. The nurses next action should be to:
a Immediately notify the patients physician.
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b Document the sound exactly as it was heard.
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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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ANSWER: C
When unsure of a sound heard while listening to a patients breath sounds, the nurse validates the
data to ensure accuracy. If the nurse has less experience in an area, then he or she asks an expert
to listen.
5. The nurse is conducting a class for new graduate nurses. During the teaching
session, the nurse should keep in mind that novice nurses, without a background
of skills and experience from which to draw, are more likely to make their
decisions using:
a Intuition.
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, b A set of rules.
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c Articles in journals.
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d Advice from supervisors.
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ANSWER: B
Novice nurses operate from a set of defined, structured rules. The expert practitioner uses
intuitive links.
6. Expert nurses learn to attend to a pattern of assessment data and act without
consciously labeling it. These responses are referred to as:
a Intuition.
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b The nursing process.
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c Clinical knowledge.
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d Diagnostic reasoning.
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ANSWER: A
Intuition is characterized by pattern recognition expert nurses learn to attend to a pattern of
assessment data and act without consciously labeling it. The other options are not correct.
7. The nurse is reviewing information about evidence-based practice (EBP). Which
statement best reflects EBP?
a EBP relies on tradition for support of best practices.
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b EBP is simply the use of best practice techniques for the treatment of patients.
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c EBP emphasizes the use of best evidence with the clinicians experience.
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d The patients own preferences are not important with EBP.
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ANSWER: C
EBP is a systematic approach to practice that emphasizes the use of best evidence in
combination with the clinicians experience, as well as patient preferences and values, when
