NUR 211 FINAL EXAM
1. Healthy People 2030Answer A branch of the Department of Health and Human Services which aims to
improve health and well-being of individuals who need it most across the United States, creating key leading indicator
objectives every 10 years to address health disparities.
2. Health AssessmentAnswer The sequence of assessment techniques which will gather the most objective da
for
the complete head-to-toe assessment is inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation, except for the abdominal
assessment where the sequence is inspection, auscultation, percussion, and palpation.
3. IAPPAnswer An acronym for the sequence of techniques used in abdominal assessmentInspection, Auscultation,
Percussion, and Palpation.
4. Nursing Process
Answer ADPIE, which stands for Assessment, Diagnosis, Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation.
5. Critical Thinking
Answer The ability to prioritize care and solve problems ettectively in nursing.
,6. Clinical Reasoning
Answer The process of using a patient's history, physical signs, symptoms, labs, and imaging to arrive at a
diagnosis and plan care.
7. Clinical Judgment
Answer Decisions made about whether or not to take action, including holding contraindicated medications.
8. Purpose of Health History
Answer To document a database of past and present health, including medical problems, hospitalizations,
surgeries, family history, psychosocial factors, self-care practices, strengths and weaknesses, teaching needs, and
discharge needs.
9. Therapeutic Communication
Answer A complex process influenced by personal, environmental, cultural, and
social factors, requiring empathy, compassion, and understanding during patient encounters.
10. Patient-centered care
Answer Healthcare that is focused on the patient or consumer rather than on providers, financiers, insurers,
or institutions.
,11. Culturally sensitive care
Answer Care that acknowledges and respects cultural considerations, such as modesty and gender
preferences in healthcare providers.
12. Biographic Data
Answer Information including name, address, DOB, birthplace, age, gender, race, religion, primary and
secondary languages, marital status, occupation, health insurance, allergies, and emergency contact.
13. Past Medical History
Answer Information pertaining to childhood illnesses, adult illnesses, accidents, injuries, chronic illness,
hospitalizations, surgeries, mental illnesses.
14. History of Present Illness
Answer The patient's current reason for seeking care; documents the specific details of symptoms that have
brought the patient to this healthcare encounter.
15. Subjective Data vs. Objective DataAnswer Objective data are any observations and assessments
made by the nurse. Subjective data are reported by the patient and should be documented using the patient's exact
words using quotation marks.
, 16. Electronic Health Record
Answer Documentation in the patient's medical record should be clear, concise, and detailed.
17. Anthropometric assessment
Answer Includes stadiometer, scale, BMI, % weight loss.
18. Functional deficits
Answer Inability to work, inability to perform ADLs, disability.
19. Factors that contribute to the pain experience
Answer Age, religious background, type of injury, etc.
20. Temperature
Answer Assessing body temp; several routes (oral, temporal, tympanic, axillary, rectal) and techniques and normal
ranges vary for each route.
21. Pulse
Answer Heart rate measured either by auscultation at the apical site or palpation at arterial sites; normal ranges
vary based on developmental stage.
1. Healthy People 2030Answer A branch of the Department of Health and Human Services which aims to
improve health and well-being of individuals who need it most across the United States, creating key leading indicator
objectives every 10 years to address health disparities.
2. Health AssessmentAnswer The sequence of assessment techniques which will gather the most objective da
for
the complete head-to-toe assessment is inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation, except for the abdominal
assessment where the sequence is inspection, auscultation, percussion, and palpation.
3. IAPPAnswer An acronym for the sequence of techniques used in abdominal assessmentInspection, Auscultation,
Percussion, and Palpation.
4. Nursing Process
Answer ADPIE, which stands for Assessment, Diagnosis, Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation.
5. Critical Thinking
Answer The ability to prioritize care and solve problems ettectively in nursing.
,6. Clinical Reasoning
Answer The process of using a patient's history, physical signs, symptoms, labs, and imaging to arrive at a
diagnosis and plan care.
7. Clinical Judgment
Answer Decisions made about whether or not to take action, including holding contraindicated medications.
8. Purpose of Health History
Answer To document a database of past and present health, including medical problems, hospitalizations,
surgeries, family history, psychosocial factors, self-care practices, strengths and weaknesses, teaching needs, and
discharge needs.
9. Therapeutic Communication
Answer A complex process influenced by personal, environmental, cultural, and
social factors, requiring empathy, compassion, and understanding during patient encounters.
10. Patient-centered care
Answer Healthcare that is focused on the patient or consumer rather than on providers, financiers, insurers,
or institutions.
,11. Culturally sensitive care
Answer Care that acknowledges and respects cultural considerations, such as modesty and gender
preferences in healthcare providers.
12. Biographic Data
Answer Information including name, address, DOB, birthplace, age, gender, race, religion, primary and
secondary languages, marital status, occupation, health insurance, allergies, and emergency contact.
13. Past Medical History
Answer Information pertaining to childhood illnesses, adult illnesses, accidents, injuries, chronic illness,
hospitalizations, surgeries, mental illnesses.
14. History of Present Illness
Answer The patient's current reason for seeking care; documents the specific details of symptoms that have
brought the patient to this healthcare encounter.
15. Subjective Data vs. Objective DataAnswer Objective data are any observations and assessments
made by the nurse. Subjective data are reported by the patient and should be documented using the patient's exact
words using quotation marks.
, 16. Electronic Health Record
Answer Documentation in the patient's medical record should be clear, concise, and detailed.
17. Anthropometric assessment
Answer Includes stadiometer, scale, BMI, % weight loss.
18. Functional deficits
Answer Inability to work, inability to perform ADLs, disability.
19. Factors that contribute to the pain experience
Answer Age, religious background, type of injury, etc.
20. Temperature
Answer Assessing body temp; several routes (oral, temporal, tympanic, axillary, rectal) and techniques and normal
ranges vary for each route.
21. Pulse
Answer Heart rate measured either by auscultation at the apical site or palpation at arterial sites; normal ranges
vary based on developmental stage.
