HLTAAP003 Analyse And Respond To Client Health Information Assessment Questions | 2025/26

HLTAAP003 Assessment Information

Conditions of Assessment 

• The student will have access to the relevant learning resources, listed under the learning resources of this document, for this assessment.
• Questions will be completed in the student‘s own time.
• Responses to the questions must be typed.  

Student Instructions for Completion

• This task requires you to complete a written response knowledge assessment.
• You are required to answer all questions correctly in Assessment Task 1 – Questioning.
• The questions within this assessment relate directly to the integrated knowledge contained within the unit of competencies and are fundamental to the student‘s knowledge and performance evidence. Use of correct grammar and spelling is required to demonstrate foundation skills, so please ensure to proofread your answers before submission.
• You may have up to three (3) attempts to receive a Satisfactory outcome for this assessment.
• Failure to receive the Satisfactory outcome after the three (3) attempts, the result for the unit will be deemed Not Yet Satisfactory, and you must re-enroll and repeat the unit to be eligible to be assessed again.
• APA referencing must be used where sources have been used.  Do not copy and paste text from any of the online sources. SCEI has a strict plagiarism policy, and students who are found guilty of plagiarism will be penalised.
• The written assessment standards (8.2) outlined in the PP77 Assessment policy and procedure apply to this assessment task.

Explanation of the Common Command Words Used in the Assessment Task

• List / identify / state / give = present in brief form
• Outline = provide the main facts about something, more than naming, but not a detailed description
• Describe = Provide full details of characteristics and/or features, more needed than an outline or a list
• Explain / Discuss = Provide a reasonable argument to discuss cause and effect and/or make links between things clear in your own words
• Analyse = Identify parts, the relationship between them, and their relationships with the whole. Draw out and relate implications
• Demonstrate = Present, show, or illustrate through example or action

Assessment Procedure

• You will be provided with a briefing on the assessment and the opportunity to seek clarification on the conduct of the assessment.
• You may seek clarification at any point in time during the assessment task. If you feel you need more time to complete the assessment, you must negotiate the time needed with the assessor before the assessment due date.
• Following the assessment, your responses will be assessed and marked as appropriate. Where responses have been assessed in one (1) or more questions as unsatisfactory, students will be required to resubmit these questions. For more information, detailed information can be found in the PP77 Assessment Policy and Procedure.

Due Date

• 14 days after the unit completion date as outlined in the PP77  Assessment Policy and Procedure.

Insert the corresponding roles for different members of the care team in relation to checking client health status, according to their responsibilities and limitations.

What are the levels of structural organization in the body? Explain briefly the physiological significance of each structural level.

Identify the normal limits of vital signs for individual development over the lifespan.

 (The Royal Melbourne Children's Hospital,2023)

Identify the nine (9ti regions of the abdomen.

Identify the anatomical region from its description 

Identify the anatomical region from its description

Name one (1) example of the common unit of measurement of each health data in the following table  

Match the following definitions to the appropriate term in the table. Definitions: 

• The tissue fluid pressure is exerted by the fluid on the capillary wall.    
• The movement of water and dissolved substances across a membrane in response to a difference in concentrations
• The force or pull of attraction that a solution has, dependent on the level of concentration against each other, when divided by a semipermeable membrane
• Substances are moved from a higher concentration toward a lower concentration with help to moveacross the help of a molecule within the membrane
• A transport mechanism that requires ATP to move solutes from a lower area of concentration to a higher concentration

Which of the following is: an acid, acidosis, H+, pH?

Which of these traumatic injuries are blunt force, and which are penetrating?

Fill in the blank spaces with the signs and symptoms, or associated procedures and assessments, or diseases

Fill in the gaps to complete this table

Which of the following are examples of pharmacological processes?   

i) Biotransformation
ii) Cytoprotection 
)Depression 
iv) Cross interactions
v) tolerance 
vi) stimulation  

a) I), iii), and v) only    
b) Iii), iv), and v) only 
c) All except i) 
d) All of the above          

The type of disorder and the physical state of the person determine the indication for a particular drug regimen  

True  or False
 
The cell or tissue to survive requires the following    

a. Oxygen, water, glucose, fats, minerals, and amino acids     

b. Oxygen, glucose, fats, minerals, and amino acids

c. Carbon dioxide, water, fats, minerals, and amino acids  

d. Carbon dioxide, water, glucose, fats, minerals, and amino acids         

Cellular adaptation refers to changes made by a cell in response to adverse environmental changes that can lead to physiological or pathological changes in the cell. The major types of adaptation include hypertrophy, atrophy, hyperplasia, and metaplasia.

 True / False       

A molecule is when two or more atoms bond together. This means that a molecule can only be formed when two identical atoms bond together. 

True / False       

Water is an example of a compound.

True / False 

A chemical reaction is a process where the atoms of molecules or compounds remain separate but form substances.  

True / False

Energy is required for molecules to form or break bonds and create new substances.   

True  / False  

An acid is an electrolyte that dissociates into a hydrogen ion and an anion. The amount of H+determines the level of acidity.

True / False       

Surgical insult is a trauma that requires energy and time to recover from. The term refers to:  

a. Tissue damage as a result of surgery, which generally forms scar tissue.     
b. Trauma to a part of the body that is unintentional when a client undergoes surgery 
c. Tissue damage as a result of being on the operating table for long periods of time  
d. Tissue damage as a result of surgery that only relates to the internal environment of the body   

All of the following are true about homeostasis, except:    

a. It is necessary for normal body functioning and to sustain life  
b. The body communicates through neural and hormonal control systems  
c. Works through positive and negative feedback mechanisms  
d. Information flows from the control centre to the effector along the afferent pathway
. A disturbance in homeostasis results in disease             

Contraindications for a particular drug include

a. Allergies  
b. Other prescribed medication  
c. Comorbidities  
d. All of the above.  

Identify from the list provided the two ways the enrolled nurse can assist in the recognition of the signs and symptoms of common clinical conditions

a. Vital sign monitoring     
b. CT scanning  
c. Blood test analysis
d. Therapeutic communication in the nursing admission
e. Undertaking procedures such as a biopsy

Biological maturation is a process of human growth and development.  And there are differences for individuals in both performance and body size.

True / False  

Cellular respiration refers to

a. The breaking up of sugars for the cell to use as energy  
b. The cell creates ATP chemical  
c. Cellular respiration uses energy  
d. All of the above 

Glucose                    

a. is usually burned as fuel to get energy     
b. can be converted to protein
c. cannot be converted to fat  
d. must be converted to urea to be excreted from the body.    

In respiratory acidosis, you would expect to find a client‘s blood pH to be less than 7. 35

True / False                

If a client is diagnosed with renal or metabolic alkalosis, you would expect that the pH of their blood would be higher than 7.45 

True / False              

Altitude sickness and diving disorders are caused by changing altitude (from sea level to heights in the first, and from diving to sea level in the second) too quickly for the body to adjust to environmental and air pressure changes. Symptoms include all of the following except:   

a. Cerebral oedema 
b. Pulmonary oedema 
c. Intestinal oedema    
d. Nausea and vomiting 
e. Seizures            

Increasing age may affect all of the following homeostatic processes except:   

a. Thermoregulation, causing increased vulnerability to temperature extremes 
b. Baroreceptors in blood vessels, contributing to high and/or low blood pressure 
c. Acid/base balance, leading to acidosis and/or alkalosis 
d. Thirst receptors, increasing the risk of dehydration 
e. Lymphatic responses to invasive microbes, making older people more vulnerable to overwhelming infections

All of the following special senses are likely to diminish as part of the normal aging process except:         

a. Hearing 
b. Vision/sight 
c. Tactile/sensation 
d. Smell/olfactory 
e. Taste/gustatory                       

Loss of smell can be a symptom of all of the following except:    

a. Snake bite 
b. Heart disease    
c. Brain injury (including stroke) 
d. Pernicious anemia 
e. Lewy body dementia             

Heat exhaustion that causes loss of body water and salt through excessive sweating is characterized by weakness,  dizziness, visual disturbances, thirst,  nausea, headache, vomiting, diarrhoea, muscle cramps, palpitations, and tingling and numbness of the hands and feet.  

True  / False     

Some conditions that affect hearing can also affect balance  

True / False  

Unsteady gait can be caused by all of the following except:     

a. Arthritis or gout 
b. Parkinson‘s disease 
c. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)    d. Some medications 
e. Neuropathy 

Older people, even if they‘re completely well, tend to have less good balance than young and middle-aged people, and are more likely to have impaired balance if unwell. Which of the following conditions does not contribute to an altered equilibrium?
       
i) Deafness 
ii) Visual disturbances (e.g., glaucoma, macular degeneration) 
iii)Polypharmacy and/or drug interactions   
iv) Cardiac or circulatory disease      
v) Postural hypotension      

An overdose is the ingestion or application of a drug or other substance in quantities less than those recommended or generally practiced.  

True / False       

A poison is any substance that is harmful to the body when eaten, breathed, injected, or absorbed through the skin. The impact of poisoning depends on the substance, quantity, period of exposure, and the health of the person, but may include any of the following except:  

a. Behavioural problems in children 
b. Liver failure 
c. Kidney failure 
d. Hiatus hernia 
e. Cancer 
f. Gastrointestinal bleeding 
g. Dementia 
h. Gout 
i. Diabetes 
j. Arthritis 

D.  Hitatus Hernia

This is not usually a direct result of poisoning, although it can cause many ailments, including liver failure, gastrointestinal haemorrhage, and even long-term consequences like cancer, dementia / other chronic illnesses.