Health Assessment
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Course Introduction
Health Assessment is a foundational course designed to equip students with the essential knowledge and skills required to conduct comprehensive health evaluations of individuals across the lifespan. Emphasizing both theoretical concepts and practical techniques, the course covers systematic assessment methods including physical, psychological, social, and cultural factors that influence health. Students learn to collect accurate patient histories, perform physical examinations, interpret clinical findings, and document assessment data effectively. Through lectures, simulations, and hands-on practice, students develop clinical reasoning abilities crucial for identifying normal and abnormal health patterns, thus forming the basis for subsequent nursing or clinical interventions.
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Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span 8th Edition by Edelman
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Chapter 1: Health Defined: Objectives for Promotion and Prevention
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Q1) Which of the following is most influenced by the social and economic environment of a community?
A) Social health policies
B) Quality of care
C) Evidence-based practice
D) Practice guidelines
Answer: A
Q2) A nurse is planning to deliver an educational program to individuals with diabetes. Which of the following should be the initial action taken by the nurse to ensure the success of the program?
A) Assess the motivation level of the individuals
B) Assess the knowledge level of the individuals
C) Establish teacher-learner goals with the individuals
D) Establish multiple teaching sessions with the individuals
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Emerging Populations and Health
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Q1) The interrelationship of poverty and health care dollars spent by Blacks and other minorities is affected greatly by:
A) lack of access to preventive health care services
B) low numbers of minority health care providers
C) use of emergency rooms for care
D) increased infant mortality rates in African American populations
Answer: A
Q2) Which of the following individuals will most likely experience a disparity in health and health care? (select all that apply)
A) African American man
B) Unemployed woman
C) White middle-aged man
D) Single white woman
Answer: A, B, D
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Chapter 3: Health Policy and the Delivery System
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Q1) Adoption of a Canadian-style health care system in the United States has the potential to:
A) decrease waiting times for tests and procedures.
B) create further health disparities.
C) increase the number of HMOs.
D) increase the amount of funding available for health care.
Answer: B
Q2) Which form of managed care restricts providers to caring for individuals who are members of their organization?
A) Fee-for-service plan
B) Health maintenance organization (HMO)
C) Preferred provider organization (PPO)
D) Independent practice association (IPA)
Answer: B
Q3) Which nurse is at risk of making a medical error?
A) Working overtime
B) Works in a hospital that advocates multidisciplinary care
C) Caring for four clients during the shift
D) Attends regular continuing education programs
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: The Therapeutic Relationship
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Q1) A nurse is working with a person to increase his daily exercise and activity. Which of the following statements by the nurse best demonstrates the use of reflection?
A) "I have also struggled with finding time to exercise on a regular basis."
B) "Regular exercise plays an important role in preventing many health problems."
C) "You said that you have difficulty making time in your day for exercise."
D) "It may be helpful if we developed a goal related to daily exercise. "
Q2) The nurse makes sure that the distance between himself and the client is at least 6 feet before he begins to ask questions related to the client's health history. Which of the following statements is true?
A) This is the ideal space for intimate communication.
B) This distance is too far for the nurse to build a therapeutic relationship while obtaining the information.
C) This is the recommended distance between client and nurse for effective therapeutic communication.
D) The nurse should position himself an additional foot away to facilitate the conversation.
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Chapter 5: Ethical Issues Related to Health Promotion
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Q1) A nurse is using feminist ethics when planning a program for women to promote screening and early detection of breast cancer. Which of the following considerations would be made by the nurse? (select all that apply)
A) Importance of relationships
B) Understanding of the oppression of women
C) Importance of responsibility when caring for others
D) Understanding of the imbalance of power
Q2) A nurse believes that it is his responsibility to ensure the safety of the public by administering flu shots to everyone in the community. Which ethical theory is being used by the nurse?
A) Descriptive value theory
B) Normative theory
C) Consequentialism theory
D) Duty-based theory
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Chapter 6: Health Promotion and the Individual
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Q1) A client who fails to take his insulin on a regular basis may have a conflict in which of the following functional health patterns? (select all that apply)
A) Health-perception-health-management
B) Cognitive-perceptual
C) Elimination
D) Values-beliefs
Q2) Which scenario indicates a potentially dysfunctional pattern?
A) Adult with frequent urination
B) Woman who lost her job
C) Elderly person with blurred vision
D) Overweight adult with a sweet tooth
Q3) A nurse weighs a person who has been diagnosed with a dysfunction in the nutritional-metabolic pattern. Which aspect of the nursing process is being performed?
A) Assessment
B) Implementation
C) Planning
D) Evaluation
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Chapter 7: Health Promotion and the Family
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Q1) A nurse is determining which family assessment tool would be best to implement with a family when planning home visits for health promotion. Which of the following criteria should the nurse use to evaluate these tools?
A) The number of questions asked on the assessment tool
B) The linkages of the assessment to Healthy People 2020
C) The amount of involvement that the family has in completing the tool
D) The capability of the tool to assess goals and outcomes
Q2) A nurse is making a final home visit with a family to evaluate the nursing care plan. Which of the following actions would the nurse most likely complete during this visit?
A) Obtain vital signs from all members of the family.
B) Ask the family members to state the goals that were previously developed.
C) Collect data similar to that which was collected at the initial visit for comparison.
D) Educate about the importance of using role relationships to create a healthy family.
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Chapter 8: Health Promotion and the Community
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Q1) A nurse is interviewing members of a substance abuse unit at a local Veterans Administration (VA) hospital. Which of the following parts of a community is the nurse assessing?
A) Structure of a community
B) Subsystem of a community
C) Supra system of a community
D) Interaction of a community
Q2) A nurse is working with a community that is experiencing an alteration in its values-beliefs pattern. Which of the following is most likely to result because of a disturbance in this functional health pattern?
A) Respiratory disorders
B) Hearing loss
C) Coronary artery disease
D) Stress
Q3) Which of the following best describes the primary goal of community nurses?
A) Create charts/graphs of data collected.
B) Create plans for community health promotion programs.
C) Create evaluation tools for health promotion programs.
D) Create a culture of health promotion/health protection with the community.
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Chapter 9: Screening
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Q1) Influenza occurs among Americans at a rate of 36 per 100 people annually. Which type of rate is this statement describing?
A) Prevalence rate
B) Incidence rate
C) Morbidity rate
D) Mortality rate
Q2) During a screening, a test with a high specificity and low sensitivity is utilized. Which of the following issues could arise by using this test?
A) Ethical issues
B) Race issues
C) Gender issues
D) Cultural issues
Q3) A nurse is assessing a low-income population in a community. Which of the following would be most appropriate for this population?
A) HIV screening
B) Blood pressure screening
C) Colorectal cancer screening
D) Breast cancer mammography screening
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Chapter 10: Health Education
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Q1) A nurse is developing an educational session for adolescents related to avoidance of risky behaviors. Which of the following steps of the teaching-learning process will need to be considered? (select all that apply)
A) Assessment
B) Diagnosis
C) Development
D) Implementation
Q2) The goal for the educational session is for the individual to correctly demonstrate proper technique for checking blood sugar levels. Which of the following teaching strategies would be most effective?
A) Provide the individual with one-on-one education about blood sugar monitoring.
B) Provide the individual with a scenario about blood sugar monitoring.
C) Provide the individual with the opportunity to practice blood sugar monitoring.
D) Provide the individual with a blood sugar monitor.
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Chapter 11: Nutrition Counseling for Health Promotion
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Q1) A school nurse is discussing the income eligibility requirements for free and reduced-price school meals with a family who is new to the school district. Which of the following statements would the nurse most likely make?
A) "If the employed member of your family earns less than $50,000 per year, your child will qualify for reduced-price meals."
B) "If your family's income is less than 185% above the federal poverty level, your child will qualify for free or reduced-price meals."
C) "If you have more than five members living in your household, your child will qualify for reduced-price meals."
D) "If your family has an income above the federal poverty level, your child will not qualify for free or reduced-price meals."
Q2) A nurse is working with a family that is experiencing food insecurity. Which of the following statements best describes this family?
A) Members of this family are susceptible to food-borne illness.
B) This family's access to adequate food is limited by lack of money.
C) This family is unable to purchase fresh fruits and vegetables.
D) Members of this family are obese.
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Chapter 12: Exercise
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Q1) A nurse is reviewing an exercise prescription for a person. Which of the following aspects should be included? (select all that apply)
A) Frequency of exercise
B) Intensity level of exercise
C) Time and duration of exercise
D) Type of exercise
E) None of above
Q2) A nurse is working with a group of individuals to start an exercise program. Which of the following would require the most attention and assistance?
A) White man who works 50 to 60 hours a week as a business executive
B) Unemployed, obese Hispanic woman
C) Employed White woman with hypertension
D) White man with a high school diploma
Q3) An inborn set of physiological changes that offset those of the fight or flight response is known as:
A) Self-efficacy
B) Catecholamine surge
C) Relaxation response
D) Metabolism
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Chapter 13: Stress Management
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Q1) A nurse has stated that the person she is working with demonstrates stress hardiness. Which of the following individuals is most likely being described?
A) Refuses to see family members after the nurse practitioner tells him or her about test results
B) Conducts Internet research to learn about the latest treatment options for a health deviation
C) Calls in sick when faced with a personal relationship problem
D) Views stressors as negative life events
Q2) A nurse responded to a natural disaster and used expressive writing as a means of coping with the stress related to this experience. Which of the following benefits of expressive writing should the nurse expect?
A) Immediate relief of stress through storytelling
B) Insight into the personal meaning of the experience
C) Absence of the symptoms of stress
D) Feeling a great sense of relief immediately after making a journal entry
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Chapter 14: Complementary and Alternative Strategies
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Q1) A nurse discussing aromatherapy at a community health fair. Which of the following aspects of this technique should be stressed?
A) Aromatherapy can be used by individuals without special training.
B) Aromatherapy is a recently developed therapy based on the work of contemporary natural healers.
C) Aromatherapy uses herbal scents in candles or incense as the primary method of delivery.
D) Aromatherapy can cause an allergic reaction in some people.
Q2) A nurse is performing therapeutic touch with a person. Which of the following would be the first action that the nurse would take?
A) Centering
B) Movement of hands above the body
C) Treatment technique
D) Attunement
Q3) Which of the following describes a nurse who is "being with" the client?
A) Answers a call bell
B) Completes a dressing change
C) Silently prays with a client when requested to do so
D) Teaches a client about his or her medication regime
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Chapter 15: Overview of Growth and Development Framework
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Q1) A nurse is caring for a person with the nursing diagnosis of chronic sorrow related to missed opportunities. Which of the following nursing interventions would be appropriate for this person?
A) Sharing a personal story with the person to demonstrate empathy
B) Assuring the person that he or she will be able to cope with the illness
C) Encouraging the person to discuss his or her fears
D) Contacting a support group representative for the person
Q2) The nurse at a well-baby clinic is assessing a 12-month-old child. At birth, the child weighed 7 lb. 3 oz. During this visit, the child weighs 21 lb. 10 oz. Which of the following conclusions would the nurse make about the child's weight?
A) The infant is gaining weight faster than anticipated.
B) The infant is malnourished.
C) The infant is at the expected weight for his or her age.
D) The infant is having a growth spurt.
Q3) Kohlberg's theory of moral development is based on:
A) Erikson's theory of psychosocial development
B) Piaget's theory of cognitive development
C) Vygotsky's theory of cognitive development
D) Gilligan's theory of moral development
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Chapter 16: The Prenatal Period
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Q1) During the first prenatal visit, the pregnant woman informs the nurse that she cannot wait to start wearing maternity clothes. This finding is based on an assessment of which functional health pattern?
A) Cognitive-perceptual pattern
B) Self-perception-self-concept pattern
C) Health-perception-health-management pattern
D) Values-beliefs pattern
Q2) During a prenatal visit, a nurse discovers that a Black woman has been occasionally craving and eating clay. Which of the following actions should be taken by the nurse?
A) Tell the client that many pregnant women crave such nonfood substances, and it is not a problem.
B) Ignore the comment because pica is acceptable in some rural Black cultures.
C) Encourage the client to eat it with plenty of water because of the risk of constipation.
D) Stress the importance of an appropriate diet and avoiding pica in a culturally sensitive way.
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Chapter 17: Infant
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Q1) An infant is lying in a crib watching and listening to a colorful mobile. What is the purpose of having a mobile?
A) Provides stimulation necessary for continued growth and development for the infant
B) Provides too much stimulation for the infant, making it difficult for the infant to focus
C) Serves as inadequate stimulation for the infant because it is an inanimate object
D) Serves as a distractor for the infant, making it easier to fall asleep
Q2) Which of the following infants is most at risk to experience child abuse?
A) Father has experienced paternal engrossment
B) Responds to parental touch
C) Parents have low-self esteem
D) Has been adopted
Q3) Which of the following is the most common poison ingested by infants?
A) Houseplants
B) Lead
C) Cleaning agents
D) Aspirin
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Chapter 18: Toddler
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Q1) How many words are in a toddler's receptive language at 24 months of age?
A) 500 words
B) 1200 words
C) 2400 words
D) 3600 words
Q2) A mother asks her toddler if she is tired. The toddler responds by saying, "Sammy bed." Based on her expressive language and speech pattern, the nurses determines that this child is likely how old?
A) 18 months
B) 24 months
C) 30 months
D) 36 months
Q3) A mother tells the nurse that ever since she started toileting training, the toddler has been touching his genitals. Which of the following statements is the most appropriate response by the nurse?
A) "This is a sign that he is not ready to toilet train yet."
B) "This behavior is developmentally normal."
C) "Tell him to stop touching himself."
D) "Don't worry about it."
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Chapter 19: Preschool Child
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Q1) A mother tells the nurse her 3-year-old child has not been himself lately. The nurse examines the child. Which of the following physical findings would be cause for concern? (select all that apply)
A) Bruises
B) Pale skin
C) Enlarged lymph nodes
D) Hives
Q2) A nurse is determining caloric needs for a preschooler who weighs 18 kilograms. Which of the following represents the daily caloric needs for this child?
A) 1360 calories
B) 1540 calories
C) 1620 calories
D) 1800 calories
Q3) A 4-year-old boy had an episode of enuresis. Which of the following actions should be taken by the parents?
A) Have him change his own pajamas before going to bed.
B) Take away one video game.
C) Tell his 6-year-old sister about the incident.
D) Make him wear his diaper to bed.
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Chapter 20: School-Age Child
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Q1) A nurse is conducting a school-wide in-service program about child abuse and is asked to describe common indicators of abuse. Which of the following signs would the nurse include? (select all that apply)
A) Caregivers and parents who are reluctant to take the child for treatment for an injury
B) Statement by the day care provider that the child was injured by falling off a chair
C) Explanation of the injury from the child and caregiver or parent that are similar
D) Lack of emotional response from child to a playground injury
Q2) Which of the following children should the school nurse monitor closely for hypertension (HTN)? (select all that apply)
A) 7-year-old White male with no known family history of HTN
B) 9-year-old White female whose maternal grandfather has HTN
C) 6-year-old Black child with no family history of HTN
D) 10-year-old Mexican American child with known family history of HTN
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Chapter 21: Adolescent
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Q1) The school nurse is working on a campaign in the school to prevent adolescent pregnancies. Which of the following interventions should the nurse implement?
A) Talk to teenagers about sex, including abstinence, contraception, and sexually transmitted diseases.
B) Tell the teenagers they should abstain from sex until they are old enough to cope with the potential consequences such as an unwanted pregnancy.
C) Encourage parents of all teenage girls to make sure their daughters start oral contraceptives early.
D) Offer all teenagers free condoms when they come in for physical exams.
Q2) Which of the following disorders is characterized by males having an extra chromosome, typically being tall and initially thin, and not developing secondary sex characteristics?
A) Gynecomastia
B) Menstruation
C) Turner syndrome
D) Klinefelter syndrome
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Chapter 22: Young Adult
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Q1) An occupational health nurse is conducting a blood pressure screening. Which of the following clients is at greatest risk of mortality from cardiac disease? (select all that apply)
A) Black man with a blood pressure of 130/80
B) Mexican American man with a blood pressure of 110/60
C) White woman with a bold pressure of 120/80
D) Black woman with a blood pressure of 128/78
Q2) Which of the following young adults exemplifies Kohlberg's postconventional level of moral reasoning?
A) 28-year-old person who calls in sick so as to help a friend move to a new location
B) 22-year-old man who uses marijuana on the weekends with friends
C) 30-year-old woman who volunteers at a soup kitchen one day a month
D) 35-year-old who works long hours so as to be considered for a promotion
Q3) Which of the following reflects Piaget's theory as applied to young adults?
A) Voting for a candidate based on popularity
B) Voting for a candidate based on media advertisements
C) Voting for a candidate based on support of the candidate by peers
D) Voting for a candidate based on analysis of views about various issues
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Chapter 23: Middle-Age Adult
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Q1) A 62-year-old person states to the nurse, "I have trouble with my peripheral vision. Sometimes, I do not notice objects unless they are in front of me." Which of the following disorders is the client likely experiencing?
A) Presbyopia
B) Glaucoma
C) Cataracts
D) Diabetic retinopathy
Q2) A nurse is discussing sexuality with middle-age men and women. Which of the following information should be stressed by the nurse?
A) Contraception usage should be decreased as a woman nears menopause.
B) Difficulty with sexual performance among men happens near age 60.
C) HIV infection after age 50 is rare.
D) The majority of new HIV/AIDS cases occur among middle-age adults.
Q3) Which of the following medications is generally recommended to help preserve cardiovascular health in middle-age women?
A) Aspirin
B) Folic acid
C) Estrogen
D) Estrogen receptor modulator
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Chapter 24: Older Adult
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Q1) A nurse is assigned to provide care for a 96-year-old bedridden man who experiences severe pain from a chronic neurological disease. The man asks the nurse to please help him leave this world so that his suffering ends. Which of the following actions would be most appropriate for the nurse to take?
A) Assist the doctor with the man's request
B) Refuse to care for the man
C) Contact the pain care specialist
D) Provide the man with names of doctors who participate in assisted suicide
Q2) A nurse has accepted a position as director of health services in a retirement community. Which of the following statements about retirees is important for the nurse to consider as she plans programs? (select all that apply)
A) Depressed and inactive.
B) Left their job to spend more time with family.
C) Left their job because of ill health.
D) Happy and well-adjusted to retirement.
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Chapter 25: Health Promotion in the Twenty-First Century
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Q1) The school nurse is planning a workshop for high school students about interpersonal violence (IPV). Which of the following information would the nurse discuss as risk factors for IPV?
A) Cultural norms
B) Family support
C) Drug and alcohol abuse
D) Depression
Q2) Which of the following projects would most likely be administered by International Micronutrient Malnutrition Prevention and Control (IMMPaCT) Program?
A) Researching best methods to preserve the freshness of foods
B) Surveying various populations about consumption patterns
C) Comparing the effectiveness of vitamin pills versus fresh fruit and vegetables
D) Analyzing the relationship between BMI and cardiovascular disease
Q3) Which of the following information about anthrax is correct?
A) Anthrax is a viral infection.
B) Anthrax can cause skin lesions or pneumonia.
C) Anthrax is spread by person-to-person contact.
D) Anthrax is treated by IV penicillin for 30 days.
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