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Chapter 31: Health Assessment and Physical Examination Chapter 31: Health Assessment and Physical Examination Potter et al.: Fundamentals of Nursing, 9th Edition MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. A nurse is a p... receptor for a nurse who just graduated from nursing school. When caring for a patient, the new graduate nurse begins to explain to the patient the purpose of completing a physical assessment. Which statement made by the new graduate nurse requires the preceptor to intervene? a. “I will use the information from my assessment to ᴀ밄gure out if your antihypertensive medication is working eᴀ洅ectively.” b. “Nursing assessment data are used only to provide information about the eᴀ洅ectiveness of your medical care.” c. “Nurses use data from their patient’s physical assessment to determine a patient’s educational needs.” d. “Information gained from physical assessment helps nurses better understand their patients’ emotional needs.” ANS: B Nursing assessment data are used to evaluate the eᴀ洅ectiveness of all aspects of a patient’s care, not just the patient’s medical care. Assessment data help to evaluate the eᴀ洅ectiveness of medications and to determine a patient’s health care needs, including the need for patient education. Nurses also use assessment data to identify patients’ psychosocial and cultural needs. DIF:Apply (application)REF:533-534 10/15/2016 Chapter 31: Health Assessment and Physical Examination | Nursing Test Banks http://boostgrade.info/chapter31healthassessmentandphysicalexamination/ 2/31 OBJ iscuss the purposes of physical assessment. TOP: Communication and Documentation MSC: Management of Care 2. Having misplaced a stethoscope, a nurse borrows a colleague’s stethoscope. The nurse next enters the patient’s room and identiᴀ밄es self, washes hands with soap, and states the purpose of the visit. The nurse performs proper identiᴀ밄cation of the patient before auscultating the patient’s lungs. Which critical health assessment step should the nurse have performed? [Show More]

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