NURS 5355 CT CHEST COMPREHENSIVE
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED PRACTICE
SOLUTIONS
●● open ended questions
Answer: questions that allow respondents to answer however they want
-best to use at beginning of exam
●● closed ended questions
Answer: questions a person must answer by choosing from a limited,
predetermined set of responses
-best to use when trying to get specific info or clarify
●● components of a health history
Answer: identification data
-chief complaint
-present illness
-past history
-family history
-personal and social history
-cultural history
-spiritual assessment
,●● faith, important, community, address
Answer: what does FICA stand for?
●● Onset, location, duration, cause, character, associated symptoms,
aggravating factors, relieving factors, treatment, temporal, severity
Answer: what does OLDCARTS stand for?
●● cut down, annoyance, guilty, eye opener
Answer: what does CAGE stand for?
●● ways to get best history from patient
Answer: -build relationship with patient
-assure privacy and maintain confidentiality
-make and maintain eye contact
-note tone of voice and body posture
-don't interrupt but do clarify
-open ended questions
-approach sensitive areas with care
●● inspection
Answer: general observation of the patient as a whole
,-progressing to specific body areas
●● auscultation
Answer: listening to sounds within the body with a stethoscope
●● palpation
Answer: an examination technique in which the examiner's hands are
used to feel the texture, size, consistency, and location of certain body
parts
●● percussion
Answer: tapping on a surface to determine the difference in the density
of the underlying structure
-listening to vibrations
●● latex, drugs, seasonal, food
Answer: what are the different kinds of allergies?
●● identity, cause, consequence, cure/ control, timeline, emotional
Answer: what areas do you address when asking about a health behavior
or an uncontrolled disease process?
●● learned, taught, shared/ social, adaptive, integrated, satisfying
, Answer: what are the characteristics of culture?
●● become aware of own biases, patients culture, and adaptations by
patient
Answer: what are ways the nurse can improve cultural sensitivity?
●● worldview, beliefs, values, behavior
Answer: what are the components of worldview from the center of the
circle outward?
●● what is real
Answer: what does worldview define?
●● what is true
Answer: what do beliefs define?
●● what is important
Answer: what do values define?
●● what is done
Answer: what does behavior define?
●● spiritual health
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED PRACTICE
SOLUTIONS
●● open ended questions
Answer: questions that allow respondents to answer however they want
-best to use at beginning of exam
●● closed ended questions
Answer: questions a person must answer by choosing from a limited,
predetermined set of responses
-best to use when trying to get specific info or clarify
●● components of a health history
Answer: identification data
-chief complaint
-present illness
-past history
-family history
-personal and social history
-cultural history
-spiritual assessment
,●● faith, important, community, address
Answer: what does FICA stand for?
●● Onset, location, duration, cause, character, associated symptoms,
aggravating factors, relieving factors, treatment, temporal, severity
Answer: what does OLDCARTS stand for?
●● cut down, annoyance, guilty, eye opener
Answer: what does CAGE stand for?
●● ways to get best history from patient
Answer: -build relationship with patient
-assure privacy and maintain confidentiality
-make and maintain eye contact
-note tone of voice and body posture
-don't interrupt but do clarify
-open ended questions
-approach sensitive areas with care
●● inspection
Answer: general observation of the patient as a whole
,-progressing to specific body areas
●● auscultation
Answer: listening to sounds within the body with a stethoscope
●● palpation
Answer: an examination technique in which the examiner's hands are
used to feel the texture, size, consistency, and location of certain body
parts
●● percussion
Answer: tapping on a surface to determine the difference in the density
of the underlying structure
-listening to vibrations
●● latex, drugs, seasonal, food
Answer: what are the different kinds of allergies?
●● identity, cause, consequence, cure/ control, timeline, emotional
Answer: what areas do you address when asking about a health behavior
or an uncontrolled disease process?
●● learned, taught, shared/ social, adaptive, integrated, satisfying
, Answer: what are the characteristics of culture?
●● become aware of own biases, patients culture, and adaptations by
patient
Answer: what are ways the nurse can improve cultural sensitivity?
●● worldview, beliefs, values, behavior
Answer: what are the components of worldview from the center of the
circle outward?
●● what is real
Answer: what does worldview define?
●● what is true
Answer: what do beliefs define?
●● what is important
Answer: what do values define?
●● what is done
Answer: what does behavior define?
●● spiritual health
