NU 518 EXAM 1 WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS 2025
1. For which of the following patients would a comprehensive
health history be appropriate?
A) A new patient with the chief complaint of "I sprained my ankle"
B) An established patient with the chief complaint of "I have an
upper respiratory infection"
C) A new patient with the chief complaint of "I am here to
establish care"
D) A new patient with the chief complaint of "I cut my hand"
correct answers >> C
2. The components of the health history include all of the
following except which one?
A) Review of systems
B) Thorax and lungs
C) Present illness
D) Personal and social items correct answers >> B
Is the following information subjective or objective?
Mr. M. has shortness of breath that has persisted for the past 10
days; it is worse with activity
and relieved by rest.
A) Subjective
B) Objective correct answers >> A
,Is the following information subjective or objective?
Mr. M. has a respiratory rate of 32 and a pulse rate of 120.
A) Subjective
B) Objective correct answers >> B
The following information is recorded in the health history: "The
patient has had abdominal
pain for 1 week. The pain lasts for 30 minutes at a time; it comes
and goes. The severity is 7 to 9
on a scale of 1 to 10. It is accompanied by nausea and vomiting. It
is located in the midepigastric area."
Which of these categories does it belong to?
A) Chief complaint
B) Present illness
C) Personal and social history
D) Review of systems correct answers >> B
The following information is recorded in the health history: "The
patient completed 8th grade.
He currently lives with his wife and two children. He works on old
cars on the weekend. He
works in a glass factory during the week."
Which category does it belong to?
A) Chief complaint
B) Present illness
C) Personal and social history
,D) Review of systems correct answers >> C
The following information is recorded in the health history: "I feel
really tired."
Which category does it belong to?
A) Chief complaint
B) Present illness
C) Personal and social history
D) Review of systems correct answers >> A
The following information is recorded in the health history:
"Patient denies chest pain,
palpitations, orthopnea, and paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea."
Which category does it belong to?
A) Chief complaint
B) Present illness
C) Personal and social history
D) Review of systems correct answers >> D
The following information is best placed in which category?
"The patient has had three cesarean sections."
A) Adult illnesses
B) Surgeries
C) Obstetrics/gynecology
D) Psychiatric correct answers >> B
, The following information is best placed in which category?
"The patient had a stent placed in the left anterior descending
artery (LAD) in 1999."
A) Adult illnesses
B) Surgeries
C) Obstetrics/gynecology
D) Psychiatric correct answers >> A
The following information is best placed in which category?
"The patient was treated for an asthma exacerbation in the
hospital last year; the patient has
never been intubated."
A) Adult illnesses
B) Surgeries
C) Obstetrics/gynecology
D) Psychiatric correct answers >> A
After completing an initial assessment of a patient, the nurse has
charted that his respirations
are eupneic and his pulse is 58 beats per minute. These types of
data would be:
A Objective.
B Reflective.
C Subjective.
D Introspective. correct answers >> A
ANSWERS 2025
1. For which of the following patients would a comprehensive
health history be appropriate?
A) A new patient with the chief complaint of "I sprained my ankle"
B) An established patient with the chief complaint of "I have an
upper respiratory infection"
C) A new patient with the chief complaint of "I am here to
establish care"
D) A new patient with the chief complaint of "I cut my hand"
correct answers >> C
2. The components of the health history include all of the
following except which one?
A) Review of systems
B) Thorax and lungs
C) Present illness
D) Personal and social items correct answers >> B
Is the following information subjective or objective?
Mr. M. has shortness of breath that has persisted for the past 10
days; it is worse with activity
and relieved by rest.
A) Subjective
B) Objective correct answers >> A
,Is the following information subjective or objective?
Mr. M. has a respiratory rate of 32 and a pulse rate of 120.
A) Subjective
B) Objective correct answers >> B
The following information is recorded in the health history: "The
patient has had abdominal
pain for 1 week. The pain lasts for 30 minutes at a time; it comes
and goes. The severity is 7 to 9
on a scale of 1 to 10. It is accompanied by nausea and vomiting. It
is located in the midepigastric area."
Which of these categories does it belong to?
A) Chief complaint
B) Present illness
C) Personal and social history
D) Review of systems correct answers >> B
The following information is recorded in the health history: "The
patient completed 8th grade.
He currently lives with his wife and two children. He works on old
cars on the weekend. He
works in a glass factory during the week."
Which category does it belong to?
A) Chief complaint
B) Present illness
C) Personal and social history
,D) Review of systems correct answers >> C
The following information is recorded in the health history: "I feel
really tired."
Which category does it belong to?
A) Chief complaint
B) Present illness
C) Personal and social history
D) Review of systems correct answers >> A
The following information is recorded in the health history:
"Patient denies chest pain,
palpitations, orthopnea, and paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea."
Which category does it belong to?
A) Chief complaint
B) Present illness
C) Personal and social history
D) Review of systems correct answers >> D
The following information is best placed in which category?
"The patient has had three cesarean sections."
A) Adult illnesses
B) Surgeries
C) Obstetrics/gynecology
D) Psychiatric correct answers >> B
, The following information is best placed in which category?
"The patient had a stent placed in the left anterior descending
artery (LAD) in 1999."
A) Adult illnesses
B) Surgeries
C) Obstetrics/gynecology
D) Psychiatric correct answers >> A
The following information is best placed in which category?
"The patient was treated for an asthma exacerbation in the
hospital last year; the patient has
never been intubated."
A) Adult illnesses
B) Surgeries
C) Obstetrics/gynecology
D) Psychiatric correct answers >> A
After completing an initial assessment of a patient, the nurse has
charted that his respirations
are eupneic and his pulse is 58 beats per minute. These types of
data would be:
A Objective.
B Reflective.
C Subjective.
D Introspective. correct answers >> A
