NUR 202 HEALTH ASSESSMENT EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE ANSWERS |
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE, NCLEX-STYLE PRACTICE REVIEW 2026/2027
1. Assessment
2. Diagnosis
4. Planning
5. Implementation
6. Evaluation - correct answer ✔✔What are the six steps of the nursing process ?
Assessment : Ask pain level, how long
Diagnosis : Pain
Planning : aspirin
Intervention : give them the aspirin
Evaluation : checking on them again - correct answer ✔✔Using ADPIE what would you do for a
patient who comes in with a headache ?
Nursing - To diagnose and treat human responses to actual or potential health problems
Medicine - To diagnose and treat disease - correct answer ✔✔What is the nursing goal and the
medicine's goal ?
Primary : To focus on health promotion and illness prevention
Secondary : To focus on early detection, prompt intervention, and health maintenance
Tertiary : To focus on rehabilitation and extended care - correct answer ✔✔Describe the levels
of preventive care
Subjective : Covert (not openly displayed), not measurable symptoms; what they tell you,
communication, something you can't measure
Objective : Overt (shown openly), measurable signs; by inspection, percussing, palpitating,
auscalating; have to observe, what you see, a. something you can observe or measure, get by
inspecting, percussing, palpating, auscultating - correct answer ✔✔What is the difference
between subjective and objective ?
, Primary : patient
Secondary : old records, family, other healthcare providers - correct answer ✔✔When it comes
to getting your data, who's primary and whose/ whats secondary ?
Comprensive - initial detailed history and physical
Focused - problem oriented, initial, or on-going (ex. emergency room evaluation, rash) - correct
answer ✔✔What are the two types of assessments (define them too)?
Interview : subjective
History : subjective
observation : objective
Physical assessment : objective - correct answer ✔✔Which ones are subjective and which are
objective - interview, history, observation, physical assessment?
-Open ended : asks for narrative responses, state topic only in general terms (use to begin
interview, to introduce a new section of questions or whenever the patient introduces a new
topic)
-Closed ended : yes or no questions (use after opening narrative to fill in details person may
have left out, when you need many specific facts about past health problems or during review
of systems, or to move the interview along) - correct answer ✔✔What are the two types of
interviews and when to use them ?
-Primary : patients with life threatening problems (the ABC's and V&L)
-Secondary : have to check back so they don't get worse, but they're stable; require prompt
attention to prevent further progression or deterioration
Tertiary : Important, but do not require immediate attention - correct answer ✔✔As a nurse
how do decide which patients to treat first and which patients to check up on first ?
A) 2nd
B) 2nd
C) 1st
D) 3rd - correct answer ✔✔Would this be primary, secondary, or tertiary - a)A patient with a
high blood sugar reading of 350 b)A patient reporting a headache rated 10/10 c)A patient
stating they are unable to breathe d)A patient requesting a bed bath ?
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE, NCLEX-STYLE PRACTICE REVIEW 2026/2027
1. Assessment
2. Diagnosis
4. Planning
5. Implementation
6. Evaluation - correct answer ✔✔What are the six steps of the nursing process ?
Assessment : Ask pain level, how long
Diagnosis : Pain
Planning : aspirin
Intervention : give them the aspirin
Evaluation : checking on them again - correct answer ✔✔Using ADPIE what would you do for a
patient who comes in with a headache ?
Nursing - To diagnose and treat human responses to actual or potential health problems
Medicine - To diagnose and treat disease - correct answer ✔✔What is the nursing goal and the
medicine's goal ?
Primary : To focus on health promotion and illness prevention
Secondary : To focus on early detection, prompt intervention, and health maintenance
Tertiary : To focus on rehabilitation and extended care - correct answer ✔✔Describe the levels
of preventive care
Subjective : Covert (not openly displayed), not measurable symptoms; what they tell you,
communication, something you can't measure
Objective : Overt (shown openly), measurable signs; by inspection, percussing, palpitating,
auscalating; have to observe, what you see, a. something you can observe or measure, get by
inspecting, percussing, palpating, auscultating - correct answer ✔✔What is the difference
between subjective and objective ?
, Primary : patient
Secondary : old records, family, other healthcare providers - correct answer ✔✔When it comes
to getting your data, who's primary and whose/ whats secondary ?
Comprensive - initial detailed history and physical
Focused - problem oriented, initial, or on-going (ex. emergency room evaluation, rash) - correct
answer ✔✔What are the two types of assessments (define them too)?
Interview : subjective
History : subjective
observation : objective
Physical assessment : objective - correct answer ✔✔Which ones are subjective and which are
objective - interview, history, observation, physical assessment?
-Open ended : asks for narrative responses, state topic only in general terms (use to begin
interview, to introduce a new section of questions or whenever the patient introduces a new
topic)
-Closed ended : yes or no questions (use after opening narrative to fill in details person may
have left out, when you need many specific facts about past health problems or during review
of systems, or to move the interview along) - correct answer ✔✔What are the two types of
interviews and when to use them ?
-Primary : patients with life threatening problems (the ABC's and V&L)
-Secondary : have to check back so they don't get worse, but they're stable; require prompt
attention to prevent further progression or deterioration
Tertiary : Important, but do not require immediate attention - correct answer ✔✔As a nurse
how do decide which patients to treat first and which patients to check up on first ?
A) 2nd
B) 2nd
C) 1st
D) 3rd - correct answer ✔✔Would this be primary, secondary, or tertiary - a)A patient with a
high blood sugar reading of 350 b)A patient reporting a headache rated 10/10 c)A patient
stating they are unable to breathe d)A patient requesting a bed bath ?
