Test Bank for Health Assessment in Nursing, 7th North American Edition (Chapters 1-34)

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TEST BANK FOR HEALTH ASSESSMENT IN
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A nurse on a postsurgical unit is admitting a patient following the patient's cholecystectomy
(gall bladder removal). What is the overall purpose of assessment for this patient?
• Collecting accurate data
• Assisting the primary care provider
• Validating previous data
• Making clinical judgments
• A patient has presented to the emergency department (ED) with complaints of
abdominal pain. Which member of the care team would most likely be responsible for
collecting the subjective data on the patient during the initial comprehensive
assessment?
• Gastroenterologist
• ED nurse
• Admissions clerk
• Diagnostic technician
• The nurse has completed an initial assessment of a newly admitted patient and is
applying the nursing process to plan the patient's care. What principle should the nurse
apply when using the nursing process?
• Each step is independent of the others.
• It is ongoing and continuous.
• It is used primarily in acute care settings.
• It involves independent nursing actions.
• The nurse who provides care at an ambulatory clinic is preparing to meet a patient
and perform a comprehensive health assessment. Which of the following actions
should the nurse perform first?
• Review the patient's medical record.
• Obtain basic biographic data.

• Consult clinical resources explaining the patient's diagnosis.
• Validate information with the patient.
• Which of the following patient situations would the nurse interpret as requiring
an emergency assessment?
• A pediatric patient with severe sunburn
• A patient needing an employment physical
• A patient who overdosed on acetaminophen
• A distraught patient who wants a pregnancy test
• In response to a patient's query, the nurse is explaining the differences between the
physician's medical exam and the comprehensive health assessment performed by
the nurse. The nurse should describe the fact that the nursing assessment focuses on
which aspect of the patient's situation?
• Current physiologic status
• Effect of health on functional status
• Past medical history
• Motivation for adherence to treatment
• After teaching a group of students about the phases of the nursing process, the
instructor determines that the teaching was successful when the students identify
which phase as being foundational to all other phases?
• Assessment
• Planning
• Implementation
• Evaluation
• The nurse has completed the comprehensive health assessment of

• A 45-year-old man with chest pain and diaphoresis for 1 hour
• A 3-year-old child with fever, rash, and sore throat
• A 20-year-old man with a 3-inch shallow laceration on his leg
• A nurse has completed gathering some basic data about a patient who has multiple
health problems that stem from heavy alcohol use. The nurse has then reflected on her
personal feelings about the patient and his circumstances. The nurse does this
primarily to accomplish which of the following?
• Determine if pertinent data has been omitted
• Identify the need for referral
• Avoid biases and judgments
• Construct a plan of care
• The nurse is collecting data from a patient who has recently been diagnosed with type
1 diabetes and who will begin an educational program. The nurse is collecting
subjective and objective data. Which of the following would the nurse categorize as
objective data?
• Family history
• Occupation
•

• An instructor is reviewing the evolution of the nurse's role in health assessment. The
instructor determines that the teaching was successful when the students identify
which of the following as the major method used by nurses early in the history of the
profession?
• Natural senses
• Biomedical knowledge
• Simple technology
• Critical pathways
• When describing the expansion of the depth and scope of nursing assessment over
the past several decades, which of the following would the nurse identify as being
the primary force?
• Documentation
• Informatics
• Diversification
• Technology
• A group of nurses are reviewing information about the potential opportunities for
nurses who have advanced assessment skills. When discussing phenomena that have
contributed to these increased opportunities, what should the nurses identify?
• Expansion of health care networks
• Decrease in patient participation in care
• The shrinking cost of medical care
• Public mistrust of physicians
• A nurse has documented the findings of a comprehensive assessment of a new
patient. What is the primary rationale that the nurse should identify for accurate and
thorough documentation?
• Guaranteeing a continual assessment process
• Identifying abnormal data
• Assuring valid

• A community health nurse is assessing an older adult patient in the patient's home.
When the nurse is gathering subjective data, which of the following would the nurse
identify?
• The patient's feelings of happiness
• The patient's posture
• The patient's affect
• The patient's behavior
• A nurse on the hospital's subacute medical unit is planning to perform a patient's
focused assessment. Which of the following statements should inform the nurse's
practice?
• The focused assessment should be done before the physical exam.
• The focused assessment replaces the comprehensive database.
• The focused assessment addresses a particular patient problem.
• The focused assessment is done after gathering subjective data.
• The nurse is reviewing a patient's health history and the results of the most recent
physical examination. Which of the following data would the nurse identify as
being subjective? Select all that apply.
• ìI feel so tired sometimes.î
• Weight: 145 lbs
• Lungs clear to

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• A nurse is completing an assessment that will involve gathering subjective and
objective data. Which of the following assessment techniques will best allow the nurse
to collect objective data?
• Inspection
• Therapeutic communication
• Interviewing
• Active listening
• The nurse is performing a health assessment on a community-dwelling patient
who is recovering from hip replacement surgery. Which of the following actions
should the nurse prioritize during assessment?
• Focus the assessment on the patient as a member of her age group.
• Interpret the information about the patient in context.
• Corroborate the patient's statements with trusted sources.
• Gather information from a variety of sources.
• A patient comes to the health care provider's office for a visit. The patient has been
seen in this office on occasion for the past 5 years and arrives today complaining of a
fever and sore throat. Which type of assessment would the nurse most likely perform?
• Comprehensive assessment
• Ongoing assessment
• Focused assessment
• Emergency assessment
• A nurse has assessed a patient who was admitted to the medical unit to treat acute
complications of type 1 diabetes. During the assessment, the patient admitted that
his blood

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• A nurse will complete an initial comprehensive assessment of a 60-year-old patient
who is new to the clinic. What goal should the nurse identify for this type of
assessment?
• Identify the most appropriate forms of medical intervention for the patient.
• Determine the most likely prognosis for the patient's health problem.
• Identify the status of the patient's airway, breathing, and circulation.
• Establish a baseline for the comparison of future health changes.
• A nurse who provides care in a hospital setting is creating a plan of nursing care for
a patient who has a diagnosis of chronic renal failure. The nurse's plan specifies
frequent ongoing assessments. The frequency of these nursing assessments should
be primarily determined by what variable?
• The patient's age
• The unit's protocols
• The patient's acuity
• The nurse's potential for liability
• A patient who is new to the facility has a recent history of chronic pain that is
attributed to fibromyalgia. The nurse has reviewed the available health records and
suspects that pain management will be a major focus of nursing care. How can the
nurse best validate this assumption?
• Review the patient's medication administration record for analgesic use.
• Ask

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• D
• A
• C
• C
• A
• C
• A, D, E
• C, B, A, E, D
• A
• B
• C
• A
• A
• D
• C
• B
• A nurse is preparing to assess a patient who is new to the clinic. When beginning
the collection of the patient database, which of the following actions should the
nurse prioritize?
• Establishing a trusting relationship
• Determining the patient's strengths
• Identifying potential health problems
• Making clinical inferences
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