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

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