Nur’s 252 - Midterm #1 Study Guide
Exam with Actual Detailed Answers
2026-2027 Updated.
Purpose of Health Assessment
Benefits? - Answer What?
- to collect subjective + objective data
- encompasses health history, physical examination, documentation and analysis.
Why?
-- to individualize care, gain insight, update or establish a knowledge base, understand
patterns/trends, for comparison.
improve, maximize, restore health
Emergency Assessment - Answer life threatening situation (RAPID)
Comprehensive Assessment - Answer annually in primary care, on admission (complete)
-all systems
Focused Assessment - Answer based on patient's issues or concerns (may be episodic or
problem-based)
- usually involves one or two body systems
Follow up assessment - Answer evaluation may occur at appropriate intervals (1 week, 1
month, 6 months etc)
What affects frequency of health assessment? - Answer patients needs, health care setting,
shift change/handover, critical care, post op Q15, lots of different reasons.
Functional assessment - Answer - focuses on functional patterms that all humans share
(Gordons), normal vs altered.
Head to toe - Answer most organized
, Body Systems approach - Answer promotes critical thinking
Phases of the Interview - Answer Pre-interaction
beginning
working
closing
Components of a health history - Answer biographical data
reason for care
current health/illness
past history
family history
personal/social hist
review of systems
FAR, ADL's
Biographical data - Answer name, address + #, age DOB, birthplace, gender, martial status,
ethnocultural backgrounds, occupation, primary language, source of info.
Source of History/ information - Answer Primary Source = PT
Secondary = family, other nurse etc.
Reliability? accurate = reliable, innaccurate = unreliable.
8 attributes* (S&S)
PQRSTU - symptom analysis - Answer P: provocative/pallative
Q:
quality/quantity
R:
region/radiation
S:
Severity (scale)
T:
timing
Exam with Actual Detailed Answers
2026-2027 Updated.
Purpose of Health Assessment
Benefits? - Answer What?
- to collect subjective + objective data
- encompasses health history, physical examination, documentation and analysis.
Why?
-- to individualize care, gain insight, update or establish a knowledge base, understand
patterns/trends, for comparison.
improve, maximize, restore health
Emergency Assessment - Answer life threatening situation (RAPID)
Comprehensive Assessment - Answer annually in primary care, on admission (complete)
-all systems
Focused Assessment - Answer based on patient's issues or concerns (may be episodic or
problem-based)
- usually involves one or two body systems
Follow up assessment - Answer evaluation may occur at appropriate intervals (1 week, 1
month, 6 months etc)
What affects frequency of health assessment? - Answer patients needs, health care setting,
shift change/handover, critical care, post op Q15, lots of different reasons.
Functional assessment - Answer - focuses on functional patterms that all humans share
(Gordons), normal vs altered.
Head to toe - Answer most organized
, Body Systems approach - Answer promotes critical thinking
Phases of the Interview - Answer Pre-interaction
beginning
working
closing
Components of a health history - Answer biographical data
reason for care
current health/illness
past history
family history
personal/social hist
review of systems
FAR, ADL's
Biographical data - Answer name, address + #, age DOB, birthplace, gender, martial status,
ethnocultural backgrounds, occupation, primary language, source of info.
Source of History/ information - Answer Primary Source = PT
Secondary = family, other nurse etc.
Reliability? accurate = reliable, innaccurate = unreliable.
8 attributes* (S&S)
PQRSTU - symptom analysis - Answer P: provocative/pallative
Q:
quality/quantity
R:
region/radiation
S:
Severity (scale)
T:
timing
