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2024 Newest|LSUHSC HA| UPDATE|COMPREHENSIVE FREQUENTLY MOST TESTED QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS|GET IT 100% ACCURATE - ANSWER-The nurse is preparing to examine a 6-year-old child. Which action is most appropriate? A. The thorax, abdomen, and genitalia are examined before the head. B. Talkin...

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- ANSWER✔✔-The nurse is preparing to examine a 6-year-old child. Which action is

most appropriate?


A. The thorax, abdomen, and genitalia are examined before the head.


B. Talking about the equipment being used is avoided because doing so may increase

the childs anxiety.


C. The nurse should keep in mind that a child at this age will have a sense of modesty.


D. The child is asked to undress from the waist up.


Ans: A. Objective


Exp: objective data are what the health professional observes by inspecting, percussing,

palpating, and auscultating during the physical examination. Subjective data is what

the person says about hm or herself during history taking. The terms REFLECTIVE and

INTROSPECTIVE are not used to describe data. - ANSWER✔✔-After completing an

initial assessment of a patient, the nurse has charted that his reparations are eupneic

and his pulse is 58 beats per minute. These types of data would be:


A. Objective


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,B. Reflective


C. Subjective


D Introspective


Ans: C. Subjective


Exp: subjective data are what the person says about him or herself during history

taking. Objective data are what the health professional observes by inspecting,

percussing, palpating, and auscultating during the physical examination. The terms

REFLECTIVE and INTROSPECTIVE are not used to describe data. - ANSWER✔✔-A

patient tells the nurse that he is very nervous, is nauseated, and feels hot. These types of

data would be:


A. Objective


B. Reflective


C. Subjective


D Introspective


Ans: A. Data base


Exp: together with the patients record and laboratory studies, the objective and

subjective data form the data base. The other items are not part of the patients record,

laboratory studies, or data. - ANSWER✔✔-The patients record, laboratory studies,

objective data, and subjective data combine to form the:
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,A. Data base


B. Admitting data


C. Financial statement


D. Discharge summary


Ans: C. Validate the data by asking a coworker to listen to the breath sounds


Exp: when unsure of a sound heard while listening to a patients breath sounds, the

nurse validates the data to ensure accuracy. If the nurse has less experience in an area,

then he or she asks an expert to listen. - ANSWER✔✔-When listening to a patients

breath sounds, the nurse is unsure of a sound that is heard. The nurses next action

should be to:


A. Immediately notify the patients physician


B. Document the sound exactly as it was heard


C. Validate the data by asking a coworker to listen to the breath sounds


D. Asses again in 20 minutes to note weather the sound is still present


Ans: B. A set of rules


Exp: novice nurses operate from a set of defined, structured rules. The expert

practitioner uses intuitive links. - ANSWER✔✔-The nurse is conducting a class for new

graduate nurses. During the teaching session, the nurse should keep in mind that


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, novice nurses, without a background of skills and experience from which to draw, are

more likely to make their decisions using:


A. Intuition


B. A set of rules


C. Articles in journals


D. Advice from supervisors


Ans: A. Intuition


Exp: intuition is characterized by pattern recognition expert nurses learn to attend to a

pattern of assessment data and act without consciously labeling it. The other options are

not correct. - ANSWER✔✔-Expert nurses learn to attend to a pattern of assessment data

and act without consciously labeling it. These responses are referred to as:


A. Intuition


B. The nursing process


C. Clinical knowledge


D. Diagnostic reasoning


Ans: C. EBP emphasizes the use of best evidence with the clinicans experience


Exp: EBP is a systematic approach to practice that emphasizes the use of best evidence

in combination with the clinicians experience, as well as patient preferences and values,

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