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Health Promotion and Prevention
The Complete Health History
Assessment Techniques
Assessment Equipment
Vital Signs
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 normal range for adult pulse rate.
What is 60-100 beats per minute.
200
It is "the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health".
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 four components that make up percussion "notes".
What are amplitude, pitch, quality and duration?
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 normal pulse and respiratory rate should be counted for.
What is 30 seconds.
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 four routes for taking temperature.
What are oral, axilla, rectal and tympanic.
400
She developed the Health Promotion Model
Who is Nola J. Pender?
400
A subjective sensation that the patient feels from a disorder.
What is a symptom.
400
When auscultating the 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, quality and equality.
500
There are 9 social determinants of health. Name four of them.
What are socioeconomic environment, physical environment, healthy childhood development, personal health practices, individual capacity and coping skills, biology and genetics, gender, health services and culture.
500
Using the mnemonic PQRSTU is an excellent way to assess symptoms, it stands for:
What is provocative or palliative; quality or quantity; region or radiation; severity; timing; understanding.
500
The 5 sounds that can be heard on percussion.
What are resonant, hyperresonant, tympany, dull and flat
500
In hospitals the proper cleaning of assessment devices used for multiple patients should prevent these.
What are nosocomial infections.
500
The difference between systolic and diastolic blood pressure is the pulse pressure. It is a reflection of what??
What is stroke volume.