NURS 3314 Health Assessment Midterm questions
and answers with solutions 2025/2026
Types of Priority Problems - ANSWER o 1st level priorities: Emergent, life
threatening, and immediate
o 2nd level priorities: Next in urgency, requiring attention so as to avoid
further deterioration
o 3rd level priorities: important to patients health but can be addressed
after more urgent problems are addressed
o Collaborative problems: approach to treatment involves multiple
disciplines
Types of Databases and When to Use Them - ANSWER o Database: what
is formed from subjective and objective data)
• Complete total database: includes complete health history and full
physical examination (PRIMARY CARE)
• Episodic or problem-centered database: form a limited or short-term
problem, collect "mini" database, smaller scope and more focused than
complete, concerns one problem
• Follow-up database: status of all identified problems should be
evaluated at a regular and appropriate intervals
• Emergency database: rapid collection of data, often compiled
concurrently with lifesaving measures (physical assess, history from
family)
, Barriers to EBP - ANSWER o Time it takes for research to be implemented
into practice
o Lack of time for us to look and read
Verbal Responses - ANSWER o Empathy: recognizing the feeling and
putting it into words
o Clarification: use when person's words are ambiguous or confusing
o Confrontation: Frame of reference shift's from patient's perspective to
yours,
o Interpretation: based on your inference or conclusion (linking events)
o Explanation: inform the person
o Summary: final review of what the person has said; condense the facts
Questions for assessing quality, intensity, location, alleviating and
aggravating factors - ANSWER • P = provocative
• Q = quality or quanitiy
• R = Region
• S = Severity
• T = Timing
• U = Understanding patients perception
When to perform a full mental health status assessment - ANSWER o
Intial screening suggests an anxiety or depression
o Behavioral changes (memory loss, inappropriate social interaction)
o Brain lesions
and answers with solutions 2025/2026
Types of Priority Problems - ANSWER o 1st level priorities: Emergent, life
threatening, and immediate
o 2nd level priorities: Next in urgency, requiring attention so as to avoid
further deterioration
o 3rd level priorities: important to patients health but can be addressed
after more urgent problems are addressed
o Collaborative problems: approach to treatment involves multiple
disciplines
Types of Databases and When to Use Them - ANSWER o Database: what
is formed from subjective and objective data)
• Complete total database: includes complete health history and full
physical examination (PRIMARY CARE)
• Episodic or problem-centered database: form a limited or short-term
problem, collect "mini" database, smaller scope and more focused than
complete, concerns one problem
• Follow-up database: status of all identified problems should be
evaluated at a regular and appropriate intervals
• Emergency database: rapid collection of data, often compiled
concurrently with lifesaving measures (physical assess, history from
family)
, Barriers to EBP - ANSWER o Time it takes for research to be implemented
into practice
o Lack of time for us to look and read
Verbal Responses - ANSWER o Empathy: recognizing the feeling and
putting it into words
o Clarification: use when person's words are ambiguous or confusing
o Confrontation: Frame of reference shift's from patient's perspective to
yours,
o Interpretation: based on your inference or conclusion (linking events)
o Explanation: inform the person
o Summary: final review of what the person has said; condense the facts
Questions for assessing quality, intensity, location, alleviating and
aggravating factors - ANSWER • P = provocative
• Q = quality or quanitiy
• R = Region
• S = Severity
• T = Timing
• U = Understanding patients perception
When to perform a full mental health status assessment - ANSWER o
Intial screening suggests an anxiety or depression
o Behavioral changes (memory loss, inappropriate social interaction)
o Brain lesions
