NUR401 Midterm Exam Questions with
Answers
Handwashing - ✔✔Simplest, easiest, cheapest way to prevent spread of disease
Correct hand washing should occur when: - ✔✔1. before/after doing a procedure that involves
direct or indirect client contact
2. after contact with wastes
3. after handling food or receptacles
4. between clients
5. after removing gloves
IPPA - ✔✔Inspection
Palpation
Percussion
Auscultation
When performing an abdominal exam, is IPPA appropriate? If not, what it? - ✔✔No.
IAPP
Inspection, Auscultation, Palpation, Percussion
Inspection - ✔✔Use of senses of vision, smell and hearing.
To observe and detect normal and abnormal findings.
, Palpation - ✔✔Using parts of the hand to touch & feel:
Texture, Temperature, Moisture, Mobility, Consistency, Strength of pulses, Size, Shape, Pain or
Tenderness
Percussion - ✔✔Tapping body parts to produce sound, waves/vibrations to assess underlying
structures.
To know: Location, Size, Shape, Density, Masses, Reflexes
Auscultation - ✔✔Use of stethoscope to listen for sounds:
Heart, Lungs, Abdomen, Blood Vessels
Lydia Hall - ✔✔1950s: Developed the nursing process (APIE)
What is the Nursing Process - ✔✔ADPIE
Assessment
Diagnosis
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
NANDA - ✔✔Developed in 1973 by North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA)
Nursing Diagnosis - ✔✔Used to:
Diagnose and treat human responses to actual or potential health problems.
Answers
Handwashing - ✔✔Simplest, easiest, cheapest way to prevent spread of disease
Correct hand washing should occur when: - ✔✔1. before/after doing a procedure that involves
direct or indirect client contact
2. after contact with wastes
3. after handling food or receptacles
4. between clients
5. after removing gloves
IPPA - ✔✔Inspection
Palpation
Percussion
Auscultation
When performing an abdominal exam, is IPPA appropriate? If not, what it? - ✔✔No.
IAPP
Inspection, Auscultation, Palpation, Percussion
Inspection - ✔✔Use of senses of vision, smell and hearing.
To observe and detect normal and abnormal findings.
, Palpation - ✔✔Using parts of the hand to touch & feel:
Texture, Temperature, Moisture, Mobility, Consistency, Strength of pulses, Size, Shape, Pain or
Tenderness
Percussion - ✔✔Tapping body parts to produce sound, waves/vibrations to assess underlying
structures.
To know: Location, Size, Shape, Density, Masses, Reflexes
Auscultation - ✔✔Use of stethoscope to listen for sounds:
Heart, Lungs, Abdomen, Blood Vessels
Lydia Hall - ✔✔1950s: Developed the nursing process (APIE)
What is the Nursing Process - ✔✔ADPIE
Assessment
Diagnosis
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
NANDA - ✔✔Developed in 1973 by North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA)
Nursing Diagnosis - ✔✔Used to:
Diagnose and treat human responses to actual or potential health problems.
