Nursing Health Assessment A Best Practice Approach 1st edition by Jensen -Test Bank

1.

What is one of the broad goals within nursing?

A)

To prevent mental health

C)

To promote self-care

B)

To form broad nursing diagnoses

D)

To treat human responses

2.

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

3.

The purpose of a health assessment includes what? (Select all that apply.)

A)

Identifying the patient's major disease process

B)

Collecting information about the health status of the patient

C)

Clarifying the patient's ability to pay for health care

D)

Evaluating patient outcomes

E)

Synthesizing collected data

4.

The nurse is conducting a physical assessment. The data the nurse would collect vary depending on what?

A)

How much time the nurse has

C)

The patient's cooperation

B)

The patient's acuity

D)

Onset of current symptoms

5.

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

A)

To establish a database against which subsequent assessments can be measured

B)

To establish rapport with the patient and family

C)

To gather information for specialists to whom the patient might be referred

D)

To quantify the degree of pain a patient may be experiencing

6.

How do nurses facilitate the achievement of high-level wellness with a patient?

A)

Encouraging the patient to keep appointments

B)

Providing information on alternative treatments

C)

Promoting health

D)

Providing good patient care

7.

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?

A)

The patient stops doing wellness-promoting activities

B)

The patient develops signs and symptoms

C)

The patient begins exercising

D)

The patient verbalizes anxiety over the cost of medications

8.

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.)

A)

Vector

B)

Chronicity

C)

Host

D)

Agent

E)

Environment

9.

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?

A)

Rationale

C)

Physical assessment skills

B)

ANA recommendations

D)

Diagnostic reasoning

10.

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?

A)

Diagnostic reasoning

C)

Critical thinking

B)

Physical assessment

D)

Nursing care plan