Questions and Answers on Health Assessment and Nursing Care

Running head: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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Question 1:
 Helps to identify the biological, social as well as psychological determinants of health
that is affecting the patient
 Collect cues for diagnosing the disorders
 Develop ideas about the other prior treatments that had been conducted and its success or
failure rates (Morton et al., 2017)
 Develop ideas about the family history, allergic reactions, preferences and others
Question 2:
Part a: involving patients and their family members makes them feel empowered and help them
participate n their own decision making about their health. These have positive outcomes. It also
helps to know whether the patient has any cultural inhibitions that the nurses need to know
before proceeding with the treatment.
Part b: holistic nursing mainly involves providing care that improves the quality of life of the
patients as a whole. It mainly looks over the person’s need like that of the physical, intellectual,
emotional, social cultural as well as spiritual. The nurses thereby provide opportunities to the
patients by which they can develop life in all aspects (Butcher et al., 2018)
Question 3:
 Maintain confidentiality about the information documented
 While medication administration, complete the information under date, time, name ,
route, site, dosage and signature

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 During collaboration, date and time of contact, name of the collaborator, information
provided to or by them, response from others, intervention resulting from collaboration.
 Conclusions should be documented that are supported by data. Value judgments and
unfounded conclusions should be avoided 9zimmerman et al., 2014)
Question 4:
 Person suffering from fever states that temperature should be taken
 Person suffering from breathlessness indicates that respiratory rate should be measured
 A person with medical history of hypertension needs blood pressure to be measured
 Patient with cardiovascular disorder needs to measure heart rate
Question 5:
 Hyperthermic 37.5 – 39.0 0C
 Afebrile 36.2 -37.5 0C
 Hypothermic 35 to 36 0 0C
Question 6:
False
A patient who is confused should not be given oral temperature measurement technique.
Confused persons are usually confused as well as disturbed and there is a high chance that he
may bite the thermometer harming lips and tongue (Bach et al., 2016). Therefore, this procedure
is not correct.

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Question 7:
Sinus tachycardia
Question 8:
 Extreme environmental conditions
 Physical activity
 Diseases
 Stress and anxiety (Urden et al., 2017)
Question 9:
 Pulse rate is to be noted
 Strength of the pulse
 Rhythm that refers to evenness of the beats
Question 10:
 Temporal pulse that is palpated in front of ear
 Carotid pulse that is found in neck
 Brachial pulse in the bend of the arm
 Radial pulse found on the inside of the wrist (Moorhead et al., 2018)
Question 11:
Bradycardia

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Question 12:
 Rate of the respiration
 Depth of the respiration
 Rhythm of the respiration
 Quality of respiration (Patel et al., 2014)
Question 13:
30 to 60 breaths per minute
Question 14:
 Perfusion at the site of the monitoring
 Technique
 Dysfunctional hemoglobin
 Unreliable readings
Question 15:
The normal pulse oximeter readings usually range from 95 to 100 percent
Question 16:
Systolic blood pressure mainly refers to the pressure in the blood vessel when the heart beats
9stephan et al., 2015).
Question 17:

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Diastolic blood pressure mainly refers to the blood pressure when the heart is seen to rest
between the beats.
Question 18:
The client is suffering from hypertension. He is at risk of heart attack, stroke as well as other
acute life threatening problems that require emergency attention (Castellan et al., 2016).
Question 19:
Bacteria
Question 20:
 Color of urine is pale yellow to deep amber
 The odor is odorless
 Volume is 750 to 2000 mL in 24 hours
 The pH is 405 to 8.0
Question 21:
The shortness of breath is called dyspnea
Question 22: