Chapter 6 Practice Test

Healthy People 2020 objectives provide a framework for:

Which of the following best describes a primary prevention method for colon cancer?

Who authored the framework which provides the foundation for nursing assessment and diagnosis using the functional health patterns?

Over the last week, a person has had finger stick glucose levels of 127, 132, 140, 138, 143, 145, and 140. This information allows the nurse to characterize the persons function pattern by utilizing which area of focus?

A nurse is using a functional focus to assess a person. Which of the following the nurse be evaluating?

A nurse working with a Hispanic family is explaining the plan for managing a childs asthma to the childs mother, father, and grandmother. To whom should the nurse direct the education?

A 27-year-old woman has not received a Pap test in years. This assessment finding identifies an alteration in which functional pattern?

A client is experiencing an alteration in the health-perception health-management pattern and an alteration in the values-beliefs pattern. Which of the following best describes the behavior of this person?

When assessing a persons nutritional-metabolic pattern, which objective finding would have implications for nursing intervention?

When assessing a clients activity-exercise pattern, which subjective finding has implications for nursing practice?

During a health history, a person reports getting 5 hours of sleep a night. What does this information indicate to the nurse?

A nurse assesses the cognitive-perceptual pattern of a Type 1 diabetic client. Which finding has implications for the individuals nursing plan of care?

Which scenario indicates a potentially dysfunctional pattern?

Which scenario represents a dysfunctional pattern?

A nurse is counseling a person with a dysfunctional sleep pattern. Which of the following recommendations would the nurse most likely give the person?

A nurse is caring for a person with a potential dysfunction in the health-perception healthmanagement pattern. Which of the following nursing interventions would most likely be performed?

The nurse has determined that a person has a dysfunction in the nutritional-metabolic pattern. Which action would be the next step for the nurse to take?

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 nurse administers the T-ACE test to a pregnant woman. The womans responses result in a score of 3. This score indicates that the woman

A Hispanic mother tells the nurse that she has been using home remedies for her childs asthma. Which home remedy might this mother be using?

Which classification system fulfills needs that are exclusive to nursing?

Eriksons task of autonomy vs. shame and doubt occurs during which stage of development?

A young couple is deciding if they should get married and start a family. Which of Eriksons life stages are they experiencing?

Which cultural group defines illness as a price that is being paid for the past or the future?

A man is telling a nurse that he feels that his health is a gift from God. This statement most closely coincides with beliefs of which cultural group?

Which of the following is the leading cause of death among women?

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)

Which individual is at risk for a dysfunction in elimination pattern? (SELECT all that apply)