health assessment exam 1 test bank

Question 1 of 37

Expert nurses learn to attend to a pattern of assessment data and act without consciously labelling it. This is referred to as:

A. intuition.

B. the nursing process.

C. clinical knowledge.

D. diagnostic reasoning.

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Question 2 of 37

Which of the following statements illustrates the biomedical model of Western traditional views?

A. Health is viewed as the absence of disease.

B. Optimal health is viewed as high-level wellness.

C. Health and disease are considered parts of a cyclical process.

D. The treatment of disease is nursing's primary focus.

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Question 3 of 37

In the socioenvironmental model, the focus of the health care provider includes:

A. changing the patient's perceptions of disease.

B. identification of biomedical model interventions.

C. identifying the negative health behaviours of the patient.

D. helping the patient view health as a resource.

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Question 4 of 37

A patient tells the nurse that he is allergic to penicillin. Which of the following would be the nurse's best response to this information?

A. "Are you allergic to any other drugs?"

B. "How often have you received penicillin?"

C. "I'll record your allergy information on your chart, so you won't receive any."

D. "Please describe what happens to you when you take penicillin."

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Question 5 of 37

What question would you initially ask a patient who has a positive tuberculin test?

A. Have you recently been hospitalized?

B. Are you a member of the homeless population?

D. Have you been out of the country over the past 3 months?

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