Chapter 31: Health Assessment and Physical
Examination
Chapter 31: Health Assessment and Physical Examination
Potter et al.: Fundamentals of Nursing,
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MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. A nurse is a preceptor 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.
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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 Less]