NUR 6001 Exams 1–3 – Advanced Health Assessment
Q1. What are the types of assessment?
Answer: Comprehensive, episodic or problem-focused, and emergency assessment.
Q2. What is a comprehensive assessment?
Answer: An initial assessment that results in baseline data for problem identification and care
planning. It is time consuming, complete, and covers all aspects of preventive health and
physical disease.
Q3. What is an episodic or problem-focused assessment?
Answer: An assessment based on the patient's health issues that involves one or two body
systems. It has a smaller scope but is more in depth.
Q4. What is the nursing process?
Answer: A systematic problem-solving approach to identifying and treating human responses
to actual or potential health difficulties. It is patient-centered, focuses on problem solving and
building on strengths, and uses ADPIE.
Q5. What is an emergency assessment?
Answer: An assessment that involves a life-threatening or unstable situation or traumatic
injury. It uses the ABCDE framework.
Q6. What does ABCDE stand for?
Answer: Airway, Breathing, Circulation, Disability, and Exposure.
Q7. What does ADPIE stand for?
Answer: Assessment of patient, Nursing Diagnosis, Planning care, Implementing, and then
Evaluating the patient's status.
Q8. What is the implementation phase of the nursing process?
, Answer: The implementation phase involves collaboration with other team members and
involvement of the patient and family. It is the phase where the planned care is actually
carried out.
Q9. What is the evaluation phase of the nursing process?
Answer: The evaluation phase assesses how effective nursing care is. Each phase affects the
other phases of the nursing process.
Q10. What is the difference between a nursing diagnosis and a medical diagnosis?
Answer: A medical diagnosis focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of disease, whereas a
nursing diagnosis focuses on the human response to actual or potential health problems.
Q11. What does the assessment phase of ADPIE involve?
Answer: Establishing a baseline, reviewing history, and conducting a physical assessment.
Q12. What is the diagnosis phase of ADPIE?
Answer: The clustering of data to make a judgment or statement about the patient's
difficulties or condition.
Q13. What is a NANDA diagnosis for nursing?
Answer: A clinical judgment about individual, family, or community responses to actual or
potential health difficulties or life processes. It provides the basis for selection of nursing
interventions to achieve outcomes for which the nurse is accountable.
Q14. What is the normal range of blood pressure?
Answer: 120/80 mmHg.
Q15. What is the normal range of pulse?
Answer: 60–100 beats per minute (bpm).
Q16. What is the scale used to measure pulse strength?
Answer: A scale of 0 to 4+.
Q17. What does a pulse scale of 0 indicate?
Answer: Non-palpable or absent pulse.
Q1. What are the types of assessment?
Answer: Comprehensive, episodic or problem-focused, and emergency assessment.
Q2. What is a comprehensive assessment?
Answer: An initial assessment that results in baseline data for problem identification and care
planning. It is time consuming, complete, and covers all aspects of preventive health and
physical disease.
Q3. What is an episodic or problem-focused assessment?
Answer: An assessment based on the patient's health issues that involves one or two body
systems. It has a smaller scope but is more in depth.
Q4. What is the nursing process?
Answer: A systematic problem-solving approach to identifying and treating human responses
to actual or potential health difficulties. It is patient-centered, focuses on problem solving and
building on strengths, and uses ADPIE.
Q5. What is an emergency assessment?
Answer: An assessment that involves a life-threatening or unstable situation or traumatic
injury. It uses the ABCDE framework.
Q6. What does ABCDE stand for?
Answer: Airway, Breathing, Circulation, Disability, and Exposure.
Q7. What does ADPIE stand for?
Answer: Assessment of patient, Nursing Diagnosis, Planning care, Implementing, and then
Evaluating the patient's status.
Q8. What is the implementation phase of the nursing process?
, Answer: The implementation phase involves collaboration with other team members and
involvement of the patient and family. It is the phase where the planned care is actually
carried out.
Q9. What is the evaluation phase of the nursing process?
Answer: The evaluation phase assesses how effective nursing care is. Each phase affects the
other phases of the nursing process.
Q10. What is the difference between a nursing diagnosis and a medical diagnosis?
Answer: A medical diagnosis focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of disease, whereas a
nursing diagnosis focuses on the human response to actual or potential health problems.
Q11. What does the assessment phase of ADPIE involve?
Answer: Establishing a baseline, reviewing history, and conducting a physical assessment.
Q12. What is the diagnosis phase of ADPIE?
Answer: The clustering of data to make a judgment or statement about the patient's
difficulties or condition.
Q13. What is a NANDA diagnosis for nursing?
Answer: A clinical judgment about individual, family, or community responses to actual or
potential health difficulties or life processes. It provides the basis for selection of nursing
interventions to achieve outcomes for which the nurse is accountable.
Q14. What is the normal range of blood pressure?
Answer: 120/80 mmHg.
Q15. What is the normal range of pulse?
Answer: 60–100 beats per minute (bpm).
Q16. What is the scale used to measure pulse strength?
Answer: A scale of 0 to 4+.
Q17. What does a pulse scale of 0 indicate?
Answer: Non-palpable or absent pulse.
