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NUR 206/ NUR206 Final Exam | Questions &
Answers| Grade A| 100% Correct (Verified
Solutions) (2025/ 2026 Update)
1. What is a Health Assessment?: A process used to evaluate the
health status of a person.
2. Primary prevention: Efforts to prevent an injury or illness from
ever occurring.
3. secondary prevention: screening efforts to promote early
detection of disease
4. tertiary prevention: aims to prevent the long-term consequences
of a chronic illness or disability and to support optimal functioning,
maximizing health
5. PQRST: 1. provocation factors
2. quality
3. radiation
4. severity - pain assess scale
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5. timing - onset, duration
6. Therapeutic Communication Techniques to Patient:: Active
listening Guided questioning
Nonverbal communication
Empathic response
Validation
Reassurance
Transitions
Empowering patient
Summarization
7. standard precautions: A strict form of infection control that is
based on the assumption that all blood and other body fluids are
infectious.
8. transmission-based precautions: measures taken to prevent the
spread of diseases from people suspected to be infected or
colonized with highly transmissible pathogens that require measures
beyond standard precautions to interrupt transmission, specifically,
airborne, droplet, and contact precautions
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9. primary elements of standard precautions: hand hygiene,
personal protective equipment, managing contaminated equipment
(including sharps) environmental control, respiratory hygiene/cough
etiquette, and patient placement
10. Equipment for Physical Exam: Thermometer - electronic, infrared
ear, rectal, temporal Stethoscope
Manual BP cuff (sphygmomanometer) / automated
Pulse Oximeter
Penlight + tape measure
11. Techniques of Physical Exam: Examine patient from the patients
Right Side
Standard position for examination
Move to opposite side or foot only as necessary
12. General Survey Components: - LOC - ao x 3
- skin color
- general appearance
- pain
- signs of distress
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- obvious lesions
- odors of body or breath
13. Normal VS ranges: RR: 12-20
HR: 60-100 BPM
BP: 120/80
O2: 95-100%
Temp: 97.6-99.0
14. ERRORS that result in falsely elevated readings: Cuff too small
Cuff too loose or uneven
Arm below heart level
Arm not supported
Legs crossed
Failing to wait after repeat measurememt
15. ERRORS that result in falsely low readings: Cuff too wide
Not inflating cuff enough
Arm placed above heart level
Deflating cuff too rapidly
Pressing too firmly on brachial artery
NUR 206
NUR 206
NUR 206/ NUR206 Final Exam | Questions &
Answers| Grade A| 100% Correct (Verified
Solutions) (2025/ 2026 Update)
1. What is a Health Assessment?: A process used to evaluate the
health status of a person.
2. Primary prevention: Efforts to prevent an injury or illness from
ever occurring.
3. secondary prevention: screening efforts to promote early
detection of disease
4. tertiary prevention: aims to prevent the long-term consequences
of a chronic illness or disability and to support optimal functioning,
maximizing health
5. PQRST: 1. provocation factors
2. quality
3. radiation
4. severity - pain assess scale
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5. timing - onset, duration
6. Therapeutic Communication Techniques to Patient:: Active
listening Guided questioning
Nonverbal communication
Empathic response
Validation
Reassurance
Transitions
Empowering patient
Summarization
7. standard precautions: A strict form of infection control that is
based on the assumption that all blood and other body fluids are
infectious.
8. transmission-based precautions: measures taken to prevent the
spread of diseases from people suspected to be infected or
colonized with highly transmissible pathogens that require measures
beyond standard precautions to interrupt transmission, specifically,
airborne, droplet, and contact precautions
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9. primary elements of standard precautions: hand hygiene,
personal protective equipment, managing contaminated equipment
(including sharps) environmental control, respiratory hygiene/cough
etiquette, and patient placement
10. Equipment for Physical Exam: Thermometer - electronic, infrared
ear, rectal, temporal Stethoscope
Manual BP cuff (sphygmomanometer) / automated
Pulse Oximeter
Penlight + tape measure
11. Techniques of Physical Exam: Examine patient from the patients
Right Side
Standard position for examination
Move to opposite side or foot only as necessary
12. General Survey Components: - LOC - ao x 3
- skin color
- general appearance
- pain
- signs of distress
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- obvious lesions
- odors of body or breath
13. Normal VS ranges: RR: 12-20
HR: 60-100 BPM
BP: 120/80
O2: 95-100%
Temp: 97.6-99.0
14. ERRORS that result in falsely elevated readings: Cuff too small
Cuff too loose or uneven
Arm below heart level
Arm not supported
Legs crossed
Failing to wait after repeat measurememt
15. ERRORS that result in falsely low readings: Cuff too wide
Not inflating cuff enough
Arm placed above heart level
Deflating cuff too rapidly
Pressing too firmly on brachial artery
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