HEAS 1000 - Midterm Review
(Unit 1-5) Questions and Answers
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Subjective data - ANSWER - what the person says about himself or herself
Objective data - ANSWER - what you observe by inspecting, percussing, palpating,
and auscultating
Diagnostic reasoning - ANSWER - is the process of analyzing health data and
drawing conclusions to identify diagnoses. It has 4 major components
Cues - ANSWER - piece of information, a sign or symptom, or a piece of laboratory
data
Complete database - ANSWER - includes a complete health history & results of a full
physical examination (used when meeting the patient for the 1st time)
Focused (episodic) database - ANSWER - "mini-database", smaller in scope & more
focused than the complete database. Concerns mainly one problem, one cue
complex, or one body system
Follow-up database - ANSWER - the status of any identified problems should be
evaluated at regular & appropriate intervalsa
Emergency database - ANSWER - calls for a rapid collection of the data, often
compiled while life-saving measures are occurring (diagnosis must be swift & sure)
Cultural competence - ANSWER - self awareness of your cultural beliefs, and biases
or misconceptions of cultural differences
, Percussion - ANSWER - tapping the person's skin with short, sharp strokes to assess
underlying structures (ex. enlarged livers) (hollow or solid)
General Survey - ANSWER - physical appearance, body structure, mobility,
behaviours
Cultural safety - ANSWER - not forcing your cultures onto others (ex. saying "Happy
Holidays"instead of "Merry Christmas")
What drives who we are? - ANSWER - values, beliefs, experience, biases,
family/friends, tradition --> influence the way we behave and our own biases
Goal of an interview - ANSWER - the main purpose is to collect subjective data,
regarding the clients current state of health
Inspection - ANSWER - concentrated watching (close, careful, scrutiny, 1st of the
individual as a whole and then following each body system) always performed 1st*
(looky not touchy!)
Palpation - ANSWER - follows & often confirms points you noted during inspection.
apply a sense of touch to assess texture, temp, moisture & organ location & size, as
well as any swelling, vibration or pulsation, rigidity or spasticity, presence of lumps
or masses & presence of tenderness or pain
Auscultation - ANSWER - listening to sounds produced by parts of the body, such as
the heart and blood vessels, the lungs, and abdomen
Temperature - ANSWER - normal 37.2 C° --> allows stable cellular metabolism
Hyperthermia - ANSWER - or fever, (>38C°) caused by pyrogens secreted by toxic
bacteria breakdown
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