Good history taking involves the collection of objective and subjective data.  All of the following are examples of subjective data with the exception of the patient’s:

In determining a patient’s chief complaint, which of the following would be appropriate?

When questioning a patient, the use of ______ facilitates accuracy and elaboration by giving the patient time to remember important details.

What should be suggested to a patient to aid with the pain of claudication?

The nurse recognizes that a term referring to mechanical difficulty of swallowing is ___________.

The nurse recognizes that an older adult patient with COPD has a higher incidence of developing which age-related skeletal change that will alter the ability to exchange air effectively?

What is the family pattern in which the female assumes primary dominance in the areas of childcare and homemaking, as well as financial decision making?

When the nurse discusses prevention of cardiac disease, falls, and depression with a group of older adults, the benefits of what are important to stress?

The older adult patient complains to the nurse about nocturia. This problem is most likely related to:

The nurse reminds an older adult patient that the task for the older adult is to achieve ego integrity. Failure to achieve this task results in which of the following?