Test Bank For Essential Health Assessment 2nd Ed By Janice Thompson focuses on the normal and the normal variants of the adult, child, elderly, and pregnant patients seem most frequently in practice. Then, when a finding falls outside of those parameters, you’ll be able to identify it as abnormal...
Test Bank for: Essential Health Assessment 2nd Ed
By Janice Thompson
All Chapters Included| 100%Verified Answers| Latest Edition 2025| ISBN-13 978-1719642323
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Table of Contents
Chapter 01 Understanding Health Assessment 1
Chapter 02 Interviewing the Patient for the Health History 11
Chapter 03 Taking the Health History 40
Chapter 04 Assessing Nutrition and Anthropometric Measurements61
Chapter 05 Assessment Techniques 88
Chapter 06 General Survey and Assessing Vital Signs 99
Chapter 07 Assessing Pain 128
Chapter 08 Assessing the Skin, Hair, and Nails 149
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Chapter 09 Assessing the Head, Face, Mouth, and Neck 188
Chapter 10 Assessing the Ears 229 LE
Chapter 11 Assessing the Eyes 250
Chapter 12 Assessing the Respiratory System 281
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Chapter 13 Assessing the Cardiovascular System 308
Chapter 14 Assessing the Abdomen 335
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Chapter 15 Assessing the Peripheral Vascular System and Regional Lymphatic System 363
Chapter 16 Assessing the Musculoskeletal System 391
Chapter 17 Assessing the Neurological System 417
Chapter 18 Assessing the Female Breasts, Axillae, and Reproductive System 451
Chapter 19 Assessing the Male Breasts and Reproductive System 477
Chapter 20 Assessing the Anus and Rectum 501
Chapter 21 Assessing the Newborn 517
Chapter 22 Assessing the Child and Adolescent 555
Chapter 23 Assessing the Pregnant Woman 583
Chapter 24 Assessing the Older Adult 612
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Chapter 1: Understanding Health Assessment
1. The World Health Organization (WHO) established a global strategy called “Health for All.”
The goal for this strategy is:
1. All individuals to get the same health care throughout their life spans.
2. The government to supply money to care for all the people in the world.
3. Resources for health care to be evenly distributed and accessible.
4. Health-care providers can never deny patients health care.
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This is incorrect. “Health for All” does not mean that all individuals get the same health
care throughout their life spans.
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2. This is incorrect. “Health for All” does not mean the government will supply money to
care for all the people in the world.
3. This is correct. “Health for All” means that resources for health care are evenly
distributed and accessible to everyone.
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4. This is incorrect. “Health for All” does not mean that health-care providers can deny
patients health care.
2. Health assessment is a foundational and priority nursing skill. This essential skill requires
registered nurses (RNs) to:
1. Diagnose and treat patients.
2. Identify normal and abnormal findings.
3. Refer patients with abnormal findings.
4. Counsel patients with psychosocial needs.
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1. This is incorrect. The role of the RN is not to diagnose and treat patients.
2. This is correct. Assessing patients and being able to identify normal from abnormal
findings is an essential role of the RN.
3. This is incorrect. RNs in collaboration with the health-care providers do refer patients.
This is not the essential and foundational role in health assessment.
4. This is incorrect. RNs do counsel patients, but it is not the essential and foundational role
in health assessment.
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3. You are assessing a patient with five gunshot wounds on a trauma unit. There is a police
presence outside his door because the patient is a known drug dealer in the community. You
know that nurses must treat all patients as persons. This is called:
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1. Caring.
2. Holistic process.
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3. Person-centered care (PCC).
4. Standards of care.
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1. This is incorrect. Caring is displaying a concern for patients.
2. This is incorrect. The holistic caring process is a relational process; the nurse collaborates
with the individual to pursue goals for health and well-being.
3. This is correct. The new movement in health care is person-centered care (PCC), which
emphasizes the intrinsic value of treating all patients as persons.
4. This is incorrect. Standards of care identify standards of professional nursing practice.
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