Health Promotion and Prevention
The Complete Health History
Assessment Techniques
Assessment Equipment
Vital Signs
Pain, Pain, Go Away
100
They are the three levels of prevention.
What are primary, secondary and tertiary prevention?
100
It is usually the first information collected in a health history.
What is biographical data?
100
The four skills required to do an assessment.
What are inspection, palpation, percussion and auscultation?
100
It is the end piece on a stethoscope used for soft, low pitched sounds.
What is the bell.
100

It is the expected range for adult pulse rate.

What is 60-100 beats per minute.

100

This is pain less than 3 months (some sources might say 6 months)

What is acute pain?

200

It is "behavior motivated by the desire to increase well-being and actualize human health potential"

What is health promotion?

200
Childhood illnesses, serious or chronic illnesses, immunizations, hospitalizations, are part of this section of the health history.
What is past health?
200

They are the five "tones" in percussion

What are resonant, flat, dull, tympanic and hyperresonant? 

200
You do this to your stethoscope after you have finished the exam.
What is clean the end piece with alcohol.
200

It is the amount of time a regular pulse and respiratory rate that fall within expected range should be counted for.

What is 30 seconds.

200

This is when the patient has an outward response to the pain, often times can be influenced

What is pain tolerance?

300
Name 3 examples of primary prevention.
What are immunizations, water sanitation, seat belt and helmet laws, promoting healthy diet, promoting exercise, fluorination of water.
300
A circle in a family history diagram represents the following.
What is a female.
300
This is the correct order for palpation.
What is light palpation followed by deeper palpation.
300
It is the real name of the gauge and blood pressure cuff.
What is a sphygmomanometer?
300

Name the five routes for taking temperature.

What are oral, temporal, axilla, rectal and tympanic.

300

Examples of factors that can increase pain tolerance (be able to endure more pain before the outward response)

Distraction, warmth, cold, medication, medication/mindfulness, prior experience (not repeat exposure)

400

Caring for someone in a rehabilitation facility is an example of what level of prevention?

What is tertiary prevention? 

400
A subjective sensation that the patient feels from a disorder.
What is a symptom.
400

When auscultating the headpiece should be in direct contact with this.

What is the skin?

400
You need one of these to visualize the structures of the eye.
What is an ophthalmoscope?
400

Pulse assessment should include these four elements.

What are rate, rhythm, amplitude and equality.

400

Well localized, aching, throbbing, cramping, constant or intermittent

What is somatic pain - a type of nociceptive pain?

500
Helping out with a blood pressure fair

What is secondary prevention? 

500

When a positive symptom is reported, OLD CARTS is used and it means:

What is onset, location, duration, characteristics, aggravating factors, related symptoms, treatment, severity

500

You can use the same large area headpiece for both diaphragm and bell, depending on the pressure used.

What is a tunable stethoscope? 

500

Your hands are visibly soiled, it is best to do this next

What is wash with soap and water

500

This is the 1st and last Korotkoff sound heard

What is systolic and diastolic BP?

500

When the pain has been there so long, vital signs are no longer affected 

What is chronic pain?

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