Deck 11: Patient Assessment

Question 1

Dry desquamation occurs at:

A) 1,600 cGy
B) 4,000 to 6,000 cGy
C) 2,000 to 3,000 cGy
D) 3,000 to 4,000 cGy

Answer 1

B
As per Table 11-2,dry desquamation occurs at 4,000 to 6,000 cGy.

Question 2

Thrombocytopenia is a reduction in:

A) platelets
B) white blood cells
C) red blood cells
D) all blood counts

Answer 2

A
Thrombocytopenia is a reduction in the number of circulating platelets.

Question 3

All of these tools measure hope except:

A) The Nowotny Hope Scale
B) The Herth Hope Scale
C) The Miller Hope Scale
D) The Hope Me Not Scale

Answer 3

D
The Nowotny Hope Scale,The Herth Hope Scale,and The Miller Hope Scale are all assessment tools to measure hope.

Question 4

Cancer patients do not worry about pain.

Question 5

Cystitis is a specific side effect of radiation treatment.

Question 6

Nonverbal communication is not important.

Question 7

Cultural assessment looks at factors including one's:

A) upbringing,health behaviors,values
B) customs,beliefs,and norms
C) customs,values,beliefs
D) beliefs,customs,validity

Question 8

Anemia is a decrease in white blood cell count.

Question 9

Reflective listening involves listening with:

A) prayer
B) praise
C) sympathy
D) empathy

Question 10

Leukopenia is a reduction in platelets.

Question 11

A multidimensional assessment tool to measure pain is:

A) The Brief Pain Inventory
B) Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy
C) The Quality of Life Index
D) The Pain Free Forever Assessment

Question 12

Chemotherapy can cause side effects to appear earlier.

Question 13

Which of the following is not one of the 10 most commonly used and helpful verbal responses?

A) reflecting
B) confronting
C) repeating
D) summarizing

Question 14

Hope is the key concept and essential ingredient in the religious and spiritual aspects of care and a major component in the healing process.

Question 15

Quality of life is how long someone has to live.

Question 16

Epilation occurs at doses around 2,000 cGy.

Question 17

The affective responses that occur most commonly among cancer patients are:

A) anxiety and depression
B) anxiety and coping strategies
C) depression and coping

Question 18

Cognitive content is composed of the actual facts and words of the message.

Question 19

Tools to assess pain should be very detailed and long and take the patients about 2 days to complete.

Question 20

Cachexia is the loss of appetite.

Question 21

The dynamic process directed toward the goal of enabling persons to function at their maximum level within the limitations of their disease or disability in terms of physical,mental,emotional,social,and economic potential is:

A) rehabilitation
B) coping strategy
C) reflecting
D) therapeutic relationship

Question 22

General Health Assessment can include all except:

A) an interview
B) taking medical history past and present
C) a self-report
D) asking when the person last attended church

Question 23

_________ is defined as identifying with the feelings,thoughts,or experiences of another person.

A) Empathy
B) Sympathy
C) Emotionally
D) Willingly

Question 24

__________ pain is the persistence of pain for longer than 3 months with a less well-defined onset.Its cause may not be known.

A) Onset
B) Chronic
C) Sudden
D) Acute

Question 25

Nonspecific side effects include all except:

A) fatigue
B) pain
C) weight loss
D) sleep

Question 26

Assessment of the patient allows health care providers to do all except:

A) Determine the nature of the problem.
B) Select an intervention for that problem.
C) Find a cure for their disease.
D) Evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention.

Question 27

Skin reactions include all except:

A) erythema
B) alopecia
C) dry desquamation
D) moist desquamation

Question 28

All these sociocultural factors influence pain except:

A) spirituality
B) age
C) gender
D) hair and eye color

Question 29

Special attention is needed in caring for:

A) The elderly
B) children
C) adolescents
D) all of the above

Question 30

Marasmus is:

A) calorie malnutrition
B) protein malnutrition
C) fat malnutrition
D) carbohydrate malnutrition