Healthy People 2020 objectives provide a framework for:
assessment
diagnosis
prevention
treatment
Which of the following best describes a primary prevention method for colon cancer?
Hemoccult testing
High Fiber Diet
Colonoscopy
Laparoscopy
Who authored the framework which provides the foundation for nursing assessment and diagnosis using the functional health patterns?
Erikson
Gordon
Newman
Nightingale
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?
Age-developmental
Functional
Individual-environmental
Pattern
A nurse is using a functional focus to assess a person. Which of the following the nurse be evaluating?
Visual Acuity
Pupil Reactivity
Ability to drive
The red reflex
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?
Mother
Father
Grandmother
Parents and grandmother
A 27-year-old woman has not received a Pap test in years. This assessment finding identifies an alteration in which functional pattern?
Health-perception health-management pattern
Elimination pattern
Activity-rest pattern
Self-perceptionself-concept 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?
Never sees a physician
Only sees a physician if not feeling well
Sees a physician for screenings only
Sees a physician for follow-up care of a chronic disease
When assessing a persons nutritional-metabolic pattern, which objective finding would have implications for nursing intervention?
The persons 24-hour diet diary
The persons dentition
The persons food preferences
The persons financial status
When assessing a clients activity-exercise pattern, which subjective finding has implications for nursing practice?
A persons decreased muscle tone
A persons amount of leisure time
A persons decreased range of motion
A persons use of a cane
During a health history, a person reports getting 5 hours of sleep a night. What does this information indicate to the nurse?
The person is not receiving enough sleep.
The person is receiving adequate sleep.
The nurse must determine where the person sleeps.
The nurse must ask additional questions.
A nurse assesses the cognitive-perceptual pattern of a Type 1 diabetic client. Which finding has implications for the individuals nursing plan of care?
Decreased sense of hearing
Decreased sense of smell
Decreased sense of taste
Decreased visual acuity
Which scenario indicates a potentially dysfunctional pattern?
Adult with frequent urination
Woman who lost her job
Elderly person with blurred vision
Overweight adult with a sweet tooth
Which scenario represents a dysfunctional pattern?
Sexually active teenager who does not use condoms
Salesman who sleeps only 5 hours a night
Single mother of three children
Woman with a small extended family
A nurse is counseling a person with a dysfunctional sleep pattern. Which of the following recommendations would the nurse most likely give the person?
Read in bed until he falls asleep
Avoid fluids after 7 PM
Exercise immediately before bedtime
Watch television in the recliner in the evening
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?
Arranging for home delivery of medication from the pharmacy
Providing education regarding the dangers of smoking
Instituting visiting nurse services for blood pressure checks
Providing direct observed therapy for tuberculosis medications
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?
Weigh the person.
Set a goal weight with the person
Ask the person what her favorite foods are
Develop a plan for weight loss
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?
Assessment
Implementation
Planning
Evaluation
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
requires interventions for problem drinking
lacks evidence of problem drinking.
requires interventions for sexually transmitted disease risks
lacks evidence of sexually transmitted disease risks
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?
Acupuncture
Cupping
Hot tea
Massage
Which classification system fulfills needs that are exclusive to nursing?
The International Classification of Nursing Practice (ICNP)
The International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF)
The International Nursing Diagnoses Classification (NANDA-I)
The Nursing Diagnostic System (NDS)
Eriksons task of autonomy vs. shame and doubt occurs during which stage of development?
Infancy
Early childhood
Late childhood
Early adolescence
A young couple is deciding if they should get married and start a family. Which of Eriksons life stages are they experiencing?
Identity vs. role confusion
Intimacy vs. isolation
Generativity vs. stagnation
Ego integrity vs. despair
Which cultural group defines illness as a price that is being paid for the past or the future?
African
Native American
Arabian
Asian
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?
Alaska Native
Hispanic
Which of the following is the leading cause of death among women?
Accidents
Cancer
Coronary artery disease
Stroke
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)
Health-perception health-management
Cognitive-perceptual
Elimination
Values-beliefs
Which individual is at risk for a dysfunction in elimination pattern? (SELECT all that apply)
46-year-old mother of two
32-year-old African American man
15-year-old girl
72-year-old white woman