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NUR 101 ( LATEST 2024 / 2025 ) TEST 11 | COMPLETE ANSWERS 100% CORRECT
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NUR 101 Test 111. Patient Centered Care
Answer
The responsiveness to individual preferences, needs, values and physical assessment findings
ensuring that these considerations guide all clinical decisions, in addition to treating patients
with respect and dignity as you would like to be treated. It requires feedback from the patient
and his or her family in all aspects of care (Giddens, 2021).
2. activities for daily living
Answer
feeding, dressing, grooming, bathing, toileting
3. Auscultation
Answer
Listening with a stethoscope
4. cyanosis
Answer
a bluish discoloration of the skin resulting from poor circulation or inadequate oxygenation of
the blood.
5. diaphoresis
Answer
excessive sweating
6. Ecchymosis
Answer
bruising of the skin
7. edema
,Answer
Abnormal accumulation of fluid in interstitial spaces of tissues.
8. erythema
Answer
redness of the skin due to capillary dilation
9. jaundice
Answer
yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes caused by an accumulation of bile pigment
(bilirubin) in the blood
10. pallor
Answer
Extreme or unnatural paleness
11. Palpation
Answer
an examination technique in which the examiner's hands are used to feel the texture, size,
consistency, and location of certain body parts
12. percussions
Answer
when a physical uses a small hammer or tapping with his finger over the body to elicit sounds
or vibratory sensation
13. petechiae/purpura
Answer
Hemorrhagic spots. Petechiae are pin sized, Purpura are larger.
14. precordium
Answer
, area of the chest wall overlying the heart and great vessels
15. Turgor
Answer
Elasticity of the skin
16. Physical Assessment
Answer
One method of gathering health data, An assessment can be a head-to-toe, focused, or system
assessment. a collection of objective data that provides information about changes in the
patient's body systems
17. Purpose of physical assessment
Answer
1. Assess the client's current health status
2. Interpret physical data
3. Decide on interventions based on data obtained (Data is both subjective and objective)
4. detect early signs of health problems To establish a baslin efor future
5. to evaluate the patients responses to medical or nursing intervention.
18. 4 basic physical assessment techniques
Answer
1. Inspection
2. Percussion
3. Palpation
4. Auscultation
19. Safety Assessment can include
Answer
bed position, call bell location, appropriate emergency equipment, assistive devices, fall
risk/hazards
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