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NUR2092 Health Assessment Final Exam Practice
Questions and Answers (100% Correct)
Activity of Daily Living - Answer✔️✔️-Tasks that are necessary for self-
care, such as eating/feeding, bathing, grooming, toileting, walking, and
transferring.
Advanced Activities of Daily Living - Answer✔️✔️-Activities that an
older adult performs as a family member or as a member of society or
community, including occupational and recreational activities.
Caregiver Assessment - Answer✔️✔️-Assessment of the health and well-
being of an individual's caregiver.
Caregiver Burden - Answer✔️✔️-The perceived strain by the person who
cares for an older, chronically ill, or disabled person.
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Domains of Cognition - Answer✔️✔️-Domains included in mental status
assessments, such as attention, memory, orientation, language,
visuospatial skills, and higher cognitive functions.
Environment - Answer✔️✔️-Assessment of an indovodual's home
environment and community systems, including hazards at home.
Functional Ability - Answer✔️✔️-The ability of a person to perform
activities necessary to live in modern society; may include driving, using
the telephone, or performing personal tasks such as baking or toileting.
Functional Assessment - Answer✔️✔️-A systematic assessment that
includes assessment of an individual's activities of daily living,
instrumental activities of daily living, and mobility.
Functional Status - Answer✔️✔️-A person's actual performance of
activities and tasks associated with current life roles.
Geriatric Assessment - Answer✔️✔️-Multidimensional assessment;
physical examination and assessments of mental status, functional status,
social and economical status, pain, and physical environment safety.
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Home Care - Answer✔️✔️-Supportive services provided in the home:
skilled nursing care, primary care, therapy (physical, occupational,
speech), social work, nutrition, case management, ADL assistance,
durable medical equipment.
Instrumental Activities of Daily Living - Answer✔️✔️-Functional abilities
necessary for independent community living, such as, shopping, meal
preparation, housekeeping, laundry, managing finances, taking
medications, and using transportation.
Katz Index of Independence in Activities of Daily Living - Answer✔️✔️-
An instrument used to measure physical function in older adults and the
chronically ill.
Lawton Instrumental Activities of Daily Living - Answer✔️✔️-An
instrument used to measure an individual's ability to perform
instrumental activities of daily living; may assist in assessing one's
ability to live independently.
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Physical Performance Measures - Answer✔️✔️-Tests that measure
balance, gait, motor coordination, and endurance.
Social Domain - Answer✔️✔️-The domain that focuses on an individual's
relationships within family, social groups, and the community.
Social Networks - Answer✔️✔️-Informal supports accessed by older
adults, such as family members and close friends, neighbors, church
societies, neighborhood groups, and senior centers.
Spiritual Assessment - Answer✔️✔️-Assessment of the individual's
spiritual health.
An appropriate tool to assess an individual's instrumental activities of
daily living is a tool by: - Answer✔️✔️-a. Katz
b. Lawton *CORRECT ANSWER*
c. Tinetti
d. Norbeck
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