HEALTH ASSESSMENT FINAL EXAM NEWEST ACTUAL 170

HEALTH ASSESSMENT FINAL EXAM NEWEST ACTUAL 170

QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED

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• What is one of the broad goals within nursing?
• To prevent mental health
• To form broad nursing diagnoses
• To promote self-care
• To treat human responses - ANSWER-D) To treat human responses

What do nursing activities that promote health and prevent disease accomplish? (Select all that apply.) A)Reduce the risk of disease B)Maintain optimal functioning C)Reinforce good habits D)Optimize self-care abilities E)Create home care safety - ANSWER-A) Reduce the risk of disease

• Maintain optimal functioning
• Reinforce good habits

• The purpose of a health assessment includes what? (Select all that apply.)
• Identifying the patient's major disease process
• Collecting information about the health status of the patient
• Clarifying the patient's ability to pay for health care
• Evaluating patient outcomes
• Synthesizing collected data - ANSWER-B) Collecting information about the health status of the

patient

• Evaluating patient outcomes
• Synthesizing collected data

• The nurse is conducting a physical assessment. The data the nurse would collect vary depending

on what? 1 / 4

• How much time the nurse has
• The patient's acuity
• The patient's cooperation
• Onset of current symptoms - ANSWER-B) The patient's acuity

• A nursing instructor is discussing the purposes of health assessment. What is one purpose of

health assessment?

• To establish a database against which subsequent assessments can be measured
• To establish rapport with the patient and family
• To gather information for specialists to whom the patient might be referred
• To quantify the degree of pain a patient may be experiencing - ANSWER-A) To establish a

database against which subsequent assessments can be measured

• How do nurses facilitate the achievement of high-level wellness with a patient?
• Encouraging the patient to keep appointments
• Providing information on alternative treatments
• Promoting health
• Providing good patient care - ANSWER-C) Promoting health

• The nurse is caring for a patient who, on the continuum between wellness and illness, is moving

toward illness and premature death. How would the nurse know this to be true?

• The patient stops doing wellness-promoting activities
• The patient develops signs and symptoms
• The patient begins exercising
• The patient verbalizes anxiety over the cost of medications - ANSWER-B) The patient develops

signs and symptoms

• A nursing instructor is discussing the health belief model with students. What elements would the

instructor explain as part of the health belief model? (Select all that apply.)

• Vector
• Chronicity
• Host 2 / 4

• Agent
• Environment - ANSWER-C) Host
• Agent
• Environment

• A nurse is writing a care plan for a newly admitted patient. When formulating the diagnostic

statements in the care plan, what would the nurse use?

• Rationale
• ANA recommendations
• Physical assessment skills
• Diagnostic reasoning - ANSWER-D) Diagnostic reasoning

• A nurse is caring for three patients whose care involves complex situations and multiple

responsibilities. What is the key to resolving problems for this nurse?

• Diagnostic reasoning
• Physical assessment
• Critical thinking
• Nursing care plan - ANSWER-C) Critical thinking

• A community health nurse is planning individualized care for a community. What does the nurse

use as a framework for this plan?

• Nursing process
• Diagnostic reasoning
• Critical thinking
• Community care map - ANSWER-A) Nursing process

• What are the types of nursing assessments? (Select all that apply.)
• Physical
• Focused
• Mental
• Emergency 3 / 4

• Comprehensive - ANSWER-B) Focused
• Emergency
• Comprehensive

• A nurse performs a comprehensive assessment on a patient. What is included in this assessment?
• Circulatory assessment
• Assessment of the airway
• Complete health history
• Disability assessment - ANSWER-C) Complete health history

• The nurse is admitting a patient to the clinic and performs a focused assessment. What makes a

focused assessment different from a comprehensive assessment?

• Covers the body head to toe
• Occurs only in the clinic area
• Involves all body systems
• Is more in-depth on specific issues - ANSWER-D) Is more in-depth on specific issues

• A nurse is admitting a patient, has completed the health history, and is now doing a physical

assessment. The physical assessment will provide what type of data?

• Concrete
• Subjective
• Realistic
• Objective - ANSWER-D) Objective

• The nurse is performing a health assessment on a new patient. While taking the detailed history,

the nurse knows to include what?

• Functional status
• Only data involving the patient complaint
• A focused assessment of the patient complaint
• Family history for the past three generations - ANSWER-A) Functional status
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