ITHS Chapter 11

Question 1

What is a method of relative weight to height used to define normal weights, overweight and obesity?

Answer 1

Body Mass Index (BMI)

Question 2

What is the use of a stethoscope to listen to sounds made by a patient’s internal organs?

Answer 2

ausculation

Question 3

What is the access, use, or disclosure of protected health information that compromises the security or privacy of that information?

Answer 3

Breach

Question 4

What is the ability to interact effectively with people with people of different cultures?

Answer 4

cultural compentence

Question 5

What term refers to health documents from which specified personal data has been removed?

Answer 5

De-identified information

Question 6

What is a determination made by a doctor that distinguishes a disease or condition from others that present with similar symptoms?

Answer 6

differential diagnosis

Question 7

What is a visual examination used to assess parts of the body by looking for abnormal colors, shapes, size or textures?

Answer 7

inspection

Question 8

What is a determiantion made by a doctor that identifies the causes of a patient’s illness?

Answer 8

medical diagnosis

Question 9

What is the description of a client’s health probelm that a nurse is licensed and competent to treat?

Answer 9

nursing diagnosis

Question 10

What medical examination uses touch to detect growth, changes in the size of organs or tissues reactions to pressure?

Answer 10

palpation

Question 11

What is the process of tapping various body parts during examination and using resulting sounds to assess the condition of internal organs?

Answer 11

percussion

Question 12

What term refers to a unfair preference for, or dislike of something or someone?

Answer 12

personal bias

Question 13

What term refers to a strong feeling of belief about a person or subject that is not based on reason or actual experience?

Answer 13

prejudice

Question 14

What is evidence of a health condition that can be seen or measured?

Answer 14

sign

Question 15

What is the assumption that everyone in a particular group is the same?

Answer 15

sterotype

Question 16

What is an indication of a disease or disorder experiences by the patient?

Answer 16

symptom

Question 17

What is the use of electrinic inforamtion and teelcommunication technologies to support long distance clinical healthcare?

Answer 17

telehealth

Question 18

What term refers to signs of illness or injury through inspections?

Answer 18

objective observations

Question 19

What term refers to signs that a patient might reveal through pain or complaints?

Answer 19

subjective observations

Question 20

What is a method of tapping body parts with fingers, hands or small instruments while listening for sounds coming from body organs?

Answer 20

percussion

Question 21

What is a waste material released during bowel movement?

Answer 21

stool

Question 22

What is part of a governemnt requirement for the clinical asseminism for all residents and provides a comprehensive evalution of each resident’s functional capabilities?

Answer 22

minimum data set (MDS)

Question 23

What does MDS stand for?

Answer 23

minimum data set (MDS)

Question 24

What report tells oncoming staff that information nesscary for smooth continuation of pateint care?

Answer 24

shift report

Question 25

What should one do before entering the exam room to avoid interrupting a patient who is changing?

Answer 25

knock on the door

Question 26

What term refers to understandings with the patients you serve?

Answer 26

rapports

Question 27

What is the process by which memories of a new cultural group adopts all the beliefs and customs of the majority group?

Answer 27

assimilation

Question 28

What is the process by which immigrants learn the beliefs and customs of the dominant culture and adopt some of them while maintaining their own customs?

Answer 28

acculturation

Question 29

What term refers to the surgical removal of the prostate gland?

Answer 29

partial prostatecetomy

Question 30

What does PHI stand for?

Answer 30

protected health information

Question 31

What data set includes any information that can be used to identify a person?

Answer 31

PHI

Question 32

Who oversees the investigation of breaches and enforces privacy lights?

Answer 32

HHS office of Civil Rights

Question 33

Which system manages data about patients, lab test requests and lab test results?

Answer 33

lab information system

Question 34

What does LIS stand for?

Answer 34

lab information system

Question 35

Which form of communciation allows medical images to be accessed and transfeered between devices disigned by different manufactuers and among medical staff?

Answer 35

digital imaging communication in medicine

Question 36

What does DICOM stand for?

Answer 36

digital imaging communication in medicine

Question 37

What can the celcsius scale also be referred to as?

Answer 37

centigrade scale

Question 38

What is the average adult temperature in fahrenehit?

Answer 38

98.6 degrees

Question 39

What is the average adult temperature in celsius scale?

Answer 39

37 degrees

Question 40

What is the range of the average oral temperature?

Answer 40

36.5 to 37.5 celcius

Question 41

What is the range of the average rectal temperature?

Answer 41

37 to 38.1 celcius

Question 42

What is the range of the average axillary temperature?

Answer 42

36 to 37 celcius

Question 43

What is the range of the average tympanic and temporal temperature?

Answer 43

37 degrees celcius

Question 44

What term means that is pertains to human body measurements used for comparison?

Answer 44

anthropometric index

Question 45

What means a measurement mean that indicates a dividing kine between average development and a health concern?

Answer 45

cut off value