ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING ESSENTIALS
FOR ROLE DEVELOPMENT 4TH EDITION JOEL
TEST BANK LATEST 2023.Qualified,VSU
Advanced Practice Nursing: Doing What Has to Be Done-Radicals, Renegades, and
Rebels
1. The nurse manager of a pediatric clinic could confirm that the new nurse
recognized the purposeof the HEADSS Adolescent Risk Profile when the new nurse
responds that it is used to assess for needs related to
a. anticipatory guidance.
b. low-risk adolescents.
c. physical development.
d. sexual development.
ANS: A
The HEADSS Adolescent Risk Profile is a psychosocial assessment screening tool
which assesseshome, education, activities, drugs, sex, and suicide for the purpose
of identifying high-risk adolescents and the need for anticipatory guidance. It is
used to identify high-risk, not low-risk, adolescents. Physical development is
assessed with anthropometric data. Sexual development is assessed using physical
examination.