Question

Where would you first put a physical exam finding of abdominal tenderness and a positive urine pregnancy result?

Subjective

Objective

Assessment

Plan

Finish this statement: Pertinent positives point the doctor ________.

Leftward

Away from a likely diagnosis

Toward a likely diagnosis

Downward

Answer 1

1) the answer is objective. The assessment is the first step of nursing process and collection of data is the essential for assessment part. If a patient seek medical care ,the first step is the assessment of clients condition. The assessment finding will provide detailed clue regarding client's condition. In assessments there is two types of data are collected that is subjective data and objective data. Subjective data is the information from the client's point of view that is mainly verbalized by patient such as feel and beliefs .

Objective data are the information that collect by observation and measuring. The objective data are collected by physical examination, observation, laboratory and diagnostic examination.

So physical examination and laboratory examination findings are coming under objective in assessment stage.

2)the correct answer is option c that is pertinent positive point the doctor towards the likely diagnosis, because the positive pertinent point is the chief complaints related to diagnosis ,that is the points are disease specific. So the doctor can easily rule out the diagnosis .Example for positive pertinent are if a patient come to hospital with chest pain, the positive pertinent are history of chest trauma, history of smoking etc. So the doctor can rule out diagnosis easily.