NR 302 Exam 1 Review
NR 302 EXAM 1 REVIEW NEWEST 2026/2027 ACTUAL EXAM
COMPLETE 100 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+||BRAND NEW
VERSION!!
A 5-year-old boy is being admitted to the hospital to have his tonsils removed.
Which information should the nurse collect before this procedure?
A. The child's birth weight
B. The age at which he crawled
C. Whether he has had the measles
D. Reactions to previous hospitalizations - Correct Answer-D. Reactions to previous
hospitalizations
Assess how the child reacted to hospitalization and any complications. If the child
reacted poorly, he or she may be afraid now and will need special preparation for
the examination that is to follow. The other items are not significant for the
procedure.
The nurse is preparing to do a functional assessment. Which statement best
describes the purpose of a functional assessment?
A. It assesses how the individual is coping with life at home.
B. It determines how children are meeting developmental milestones.
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C. It can identify any problems with memory the individual may be experiencing.
D. It helps to determine how a person is managing day-to-day activities. - Correct
Answer-D. It helps to determine how a person is managing day-to-day activities.
Page: 67. The functional assessment measures how a person manages day-to-day
activities. The other answers do not reflect the purpose of a functional assessment.
The nurse is performing a functional assessment on an 82-year-old patient who
recently had a stroke. Which of these questions would be most important to ask?
A. "Do you wear glasses?"
B. "Are you able to dress yourself?"
C. "Do you have any thyroid problems?"
D. "How many times a day do you have a bowel movement?" - Correct Answer-B.
"Are you able to dress yourself?"
Page: 67. Functional assessment measures how a person manages day-to-day
activities. For the older person, the meaning of health becomes those activities
that they can or cannot do. The other responses do not relate to functional
assessment.
The nurse is assessing a 75-year-old man. As the nurse begins the mental status
portion of the assessment, the nurse expects that this patient:
A) will have no decrease in any of his abilities, including response time.
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B) will have difficulty on tests of remote memory because this typically decreases
with age.
C) may take a little longer to respond, but his general knowledge and abilities
should not have declined.
D) will have had a decrease in his response time because of language loss and a
decrease in general knowledge. - Correct Answer-C) may take a little longer to
respond, but his general knowledge and abilities should not have declined.
Page: 72. The aging process leaves the parameters of mental status mostly intact.
There is no decrease in general knowledge and little or no loss in vocabulary.
Response time is slower than in youth. It takes a bit longer for the brain to process
information and to react to it. Recent memory, which requires some processing is
somewhat decreased with aging, but remote memory is not affected.
The nurse is preparing to do a mental status examination. Which statement is true
regarding the mental status examination?
A) A patient's family is the best resource for information about the patient's
coping skills.
B) It is usually sufficient to gather mental status information during the health
history interview.
C) It takes an enormous amount of extra time to integrate the mental status
examination into the health history interview.
D) It is usually necessary to perform a complete mental status examination to get
a good idea of the patient's level of functioning. - Correct Answer-B) It is usually
sufficient to gather mental status information during the health history interview.
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Page: 73. The full mental status examination is a systematic check of emotional
and cognitive functioning. The steps described here, though, rarely need to be
taken in their entirety. Usually, one can assess mental status through the context
of the health history interview.
The Nurse is interviewing their patient. The nurse states "Can you tell me exactly
what you feel when you are having difficulty catching your breath?" Which of the
following communication techniques is the nurse utilizing?
A) Attending to cues
B) Paraphrasing
C) Focusing
D) Summarazing - Correct Answer-C) Focusing
The nurse is obtaining a family health history when the client reports that a
grandparent has type 1 diabetes. Where can the nurse document this
information?
A) Present health/ illness
B) Family Genogram
C) Past Medical History
D) Health Belief Model - Correct Answer-B) Family Genogram
The Nurse is interviewing a patient with acute pain. Which of the following actions
by the nurse should be preformed first?
A) Attempt to reduce the pain and complete the interview later
B) Interview the family to get the information needed
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NR 302 EXAM 1 REVIEW NEWEST 2026/2027 ACTUAL EXAM
COMPLETE 100 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+||BRAND NEW
VERSION!!
A 5-year-old boy is being admitted to the hospital to have his tonsils removed.
Which information should the nurse collect before this procedure?
A. The child's birth weight
B. The age at which he crawled
C. Whether he has had the measles
D. Reactions to previous hospitalizations - Correct Answer-D. Reactions to previous
hospitalizations
Assess how the child reacted to hospitalization and any complications. If the child
reacted poorly, he or she may be afraid now and will need special preparation for
the examination that is to follow. The other items are not significant for the
procedure.
The nurse is preparing to do a functional assessment. Which statement best
describes the purpose of a functional assessment?
A. It assesses how the individual is coping with life at home.
B. It determines how children are meeting developmental milestones.
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C. It can identify any problems with memory the individual may be experiencing.
D. It helps to determine how a person is managing day-to-day activities. - Correct
Answer-D. It helps to determine how a person is managing day-to-day activities.
Page: 67. The functional assessment measures how a person manages day-to-day
activities. The other answers do not reflect the purpose of a functional assessment.
The nurse is performing a functional assessment on an 82-year-old patient who
recently had a stroke. Which of these questions would be most important to ask?
A. "Do you wear glasses?"
B. "Are you able to dress yourself?"
C. "Do you have any thyroid problems?"
D. "How many times a day do you have a bowel movement?" - Correct Answer-B.
"Are you able to dress yourself?"
Page: 67. Functional assessment measures how a person manages day-to-day
activities. For the older person, the meaning of health becomes those activities
that they can or cannot do. The other responses do not relate to functional
assessment.
The nurse is assessing a 75-year-old man. As the nurse begins the mental status
portion of the assessment, the nurse expects that this patient:
A) will have no decrease in any of his abilities, including response time.
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B) will have difficulty on tests of remote memory because this typically decreases
with age.
C) may take a little longer to respond, but his general knowledge and abilities
should not have declined.
D) will have had a decrease in his response time because of language loss and a
decrease in general knowledge. - Correct Answer-C) may take a little longer to
respond, but his general knowledge and abilities should not have declined.
Page: 72. The aging process leaves the parameters of mental status mostly intact.
There is no decrease in general knowledge and little or no loss in vocabulary.
Response time is slower than in youth. It takes a bit longer for the brain to process
information and to react to it. Recent memory, which requires some processing is
somewhat decreased with aging, but remote memory is not affected.
The nurse is preparing to do a mental status examination. Which statement is true
regarding the mental status examination?
A) A patient's family is the best resource for information about the patient's
coping skills.
B) It is usually sufficient to gather mental status information during the health
history interview.
C) It takes an enormous amount of extra time to integrate the mental status
examination into the health history interview.
D) It is usually necessary to perform a complete mental status examination to get
a good idea of the patient's level of functioning. - Correct Answer-B) It is usually
sufficient to gather mental status information during the health history interview.
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Page: 73. The full mental status examination is a systematic check of emotional
and cognitive functioning. The steps described here, though, rarely need to be
taken in their entirety. Usually, one can assess mental status through the context
of the health history interview.
The Nurse is interviewing their patient. The nurse states "Can you tell me exactly
what you feel when you are having difficulty catching your breath?" Which of the
following communication techniques is the nurse utilizing?
A) Attending to cues
B) Paraphrasing
C) Focusing
D) Summarazing - Correct Answer-C) Focusing
The nurse is obtaining a family health history when the client reports that a
grandparent has type 1 diabetes. Where can the nurse document this
information?
A) Present health/ illness
B) Family Genogram
C) Past Medical History
D) Health Belief Model - Correct Answer-B) Family Genogram
The Nurse is interviewing a patient with acute pain. Which of the following actions
by the nurse should be preformed first?
A) Attempt to reduce the pain and complete the interview later
B) Interview the family to get the information needed
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