NUFT 202 UPDATED EXAM SCRIPT 2026 QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Nurse's Experience data - ✔✔Through clinical experience a nurse observes other
patients; recognizes clinical changes; and learns the types of questions to ask, choosing
only the questions that will give the most useful information.
✔✔Patient Center Interview - ✔✔this is relationship based and is an organized
conversation focused on learning about the well and the sick as they seek care. This
becomes the basis for forming trust and effective long term therapeutic relationships
with patients.
✔✔Effective communication skills - ✔✔Courtesy
Comfort
Connection
Confirmation
✔✔Courtesy - ✔✔greet patients by preferred name
Introduce yourself and explain your role meet and acknowledge any visitors in a
patients room and learn their names
✔✔Comfort - ✔✔In a hospital setting perform any necessary comfort measures before
beginning the interview
✔✔Connection - ✔✔establish eye contact and sit at eye level if possible during an
interview
Do not dominate a discussion or assume that you know the nature of a patients
problems.
Start with open ended questions
listen and be attentive
use your observation skills
respect silence and be flexible 'let the patients needs concerns or questions guide your
follow up questions
✔✔Confirmation - ✔✔Ask the patient to summarize the discussion so there are no
uncertanties
Be open to further clarification or discussion
✔✔Phases of an Interview - ✔✔-orientation and setting an agenda
-working phase
-terminating an Interview
✔✔Orientation and setting an agenda - ✔✔Set the scene! Your aim is to set an agenda
for how you will gather information about a patient current chief concerns or problems
-explaining your purpose
,-asking patient for his or her list of concerns/problems
-nothing that all information will be confidential
✔✔working phase of interview - ✔✔start an assessment or a nursing health history with
open ended questions that allow patients to describe more clearly their concerns or
problem
✔✔Terminating an interview - ✔✔Summarize your discussion with a patient and check
for accuracy of the information collected
Give your patient a clue that the interview is coming to an end
✔✔Interview Techniques - ✔✔Observation
Open-ended questions
Leading questions
Back channeling
Direct closed-ended questions
✔✔Observation - ✔✔gathering of information through nonverbal behavior, appearance,
and interaction with the environment, you determine whether the data you obtained are
consistent with what the patient states verbally
This will help you lead to pursue further objective information to form accurate
conclusions
✔✔open-ended questions - ✔✔gives patient discretion about the extent of their answer
This type of question does not presuppose a specific answer
✔✔Leading Questions - ✔✔These are the most risky questions because of possibly
limiting the information provided to what a patient thinks you want to know
✔✔Back Channeling - ✔✔Active listening technique that prompts a respondent to
continue telling a story or describing a situation. Involves use of phrases such as "Go
on," "Uh huh," and "Tell me more."
✔✔Probing - ✔✔with further open-ended questions to encourage a full description
without trying to control the direction the story takes
Always stay observant and know when it is time to postpone an interview
✔✔direct closed-ended questions - ✔✔Questions that can be answered with short
responses such as "yes" or "no." or a number of frequency of a symptom
✔✔Nursing health history - ✔✔You gather a nursing health history during either your
initial or early contact with a patient. Major part of assessment. Includes biographical
information, reason for seeking health care, patient expectations, present illness or
health concerns, health history, family history, environmental history, psychosocial
history, spiritual health, review of systems, and documentation of history findings.
, ✔✔Cultural Considerations - ✔✔adapt each assessment to the unique needs of
patients of background and cultures different from your own
Be respectful
understand these differences
do no impose on your own attitudes, biases, and beliefs
✔✔components of nursing health history - ✔✔biographic data
chief complaint
history of present illness
past history
family history of illness
lifestyle
social data
psychological data
patterns of health care
✔✔biographic information - ✔✔Factual demographic data; age; address; occupation;
working status; marital status; source of health care; and types of insurance
✔✔Chief concern of reason for seeking health care - ✔✔this is the information you
gather when you initially set an agenda during a patient centered interview
you learn a patient chief concerns or problems
✔✔Patient Expectations - ✔✔Patient's understanding of why he or she is seeking health
care. The assessment of patient expectations is not the same as the reason for seeking
medical care, although they are often related. Failure to identify a patient's expectations
of health care providers results in poor patient satisfaction.
✔✔Present illness of health concerns - ✔✔Essential and relevant data about the nature
and onset of symptoms.
PQRST
Provokes
Quality
Radiates
Severity
Time
✔✔Health History - ✔✔provides a holistic view of a patient's health care experiences
and current health habits
Medical history
surgical history
medication history
Allergies
Social History
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Nurse's Experience data - ✔✔Through clinical experience a nurse observes other
patients; recognizes clinical changes; and learns the types of questions to ask, choosing
only the questions that will give the most useful information.
✔✔Patient Center Interview - ✔✔this is relationship based and is an organized
conversation focused on learning about the well and the sick as they seek care. This
becomes the basis for forming trust and effective long term therapeutic relationships
with patients.
✔✔Effective communication skills - ✔✔Courtesy
Comfort
Connection
Confirmation
✔✔Courtesy - ✔✔greet patients by preferred name
Introduce yourself and explain your role meet and acknowledge any visitors in a
patients room and learn their names
✔✔Comfort - ✔✔In a hospital setting perform any necessary comfort measures before
beginning the interview
✔✔Connection - ✔✔establish eye contact and sit at eye level if possible during an
interview
Do not dominate a discussion or assume that you know the nature of a patients
problems.
Start with open ended questions
listen and be attentive
use your observation skills
respect silence and be flexible 'let the patients needs concerns or questions guide your
follow up questions
✔✔Confirmation - ✔✔Ask the patient to summarize the discussion so there are no
uncertanties
Be open to further clarification or discussion
✔✔Phases of an Interview - ✔✔-orientation and setting an agenda
-working phase
-terminating an Interview
✔✔Orientation and setting an agenda - ✔✔Set the scene! Your aim is to set an agenda
for how you will gather information about a patient current chief concerns or problems
-explaining your purpose
,-asking patient for his or her list of concerns/problems
-nothing that all information will be confidential
✔✔working phase of interview - ✔✔start an assessment or a nursing health history with
open ended questions that allow patients to describe more clearly their concerns or
problem
✔✔Terminating an interview - ✔✔Summarize your discussion with a patient and check
for accuracy of the information collected
Give your patient a clue that the interview is coming to an end
✔✔Interview Techniques - ✔✔Observation
Open-ended questions
Leading questions
Back channeling
Direct closed-ended questions
✔✔Observation - ✔✔gathering of information through nonverbal behavior, appearance,
and interaction with the environment, you determine whether the data you obtained are
consistent with what the patient states verbally
This will help you lead to pursue further objective information to form accurate
conclusions
✔✔open-ended questions - ✔✔gives patient discretion about the extent of their answer
This type of question does not presuppose a specific answer
✔✔Leading Questions - ✔✔These are the most risky questions because of possibly
limiting the information provided to what a patient thinks you want to know
✔✔Back Channeling - ✔✔Active listening technique that prompts a respondent to
continue telling a story or describing a situation. Involves use of phrases such as "Go
on," "Uh huh," and "Tell me more."
✔✔Probing - ✔✔with further open-ended questions to encourage a full description
without trying to control the direction the story takes
Always stay observant and know when it is time to postpone an interview
✔✔direct closed-ended questions - ✔✔Questions that can be answered with short
responses such as "yes" or "no." or a number of frequency of a symptom
✔✔Nursing health history - ✔✔You gather a nursing health history during either your
initial or early contact with a patient. Major part of assessment. Includes biographical
information, reason for seeking health care, patient expectations, present illness or
health concerns, health history, family history, environmental history, psychosocial
history, spiritual health, review of systems, and documentation of history findings.
, ✔✔Cultural Considerations - ✔✔adapt each assessment to the unique needs of
patients of background and cultures different from your own
Be respectful
understand these differences
do no impose on your own attitudes, biases, and beliefs
✔✔components of nursing health history - ✔✔biographic data
chief complaint
history of present illness
past history
family history of illness
lifestyle
social data
psychological data
patterns of health care
✔✔biographic information - ✔✔Factual demographic data; age; address; occupation;
working status; marital status; source of health care; and types of insurance
✔✔Chief concern of reason for seeking health care - ✔✔this is the information you
gather when you initially set an agenda during a patient centered interview
you learn a patient chief concerns or problems
✔✔Patient Expectations - ✔✔Patient's understanding of why he or she is seeking health
care. The assessment of patient expectations is not the same as the reason for seeking
medical care, although they are often related. Failure to identify a patient's expectations
of health care providers results in poor patient satisfaction.
✔✔Present illness of health concerns - ✔✔Essential and relevant data about the nature
and onset of symptoms.
PQRST
Provokes
Quality
Radiates
Severity
Time
✔✔Health History - ✔✔provides a holistic view of a patient's health care experiences
and current health habits
Medical history
surgical history
medication history
Allergies
Social History
