Health Assessment Exam 1 Study Guide
EXAM 1 REVIEW AND BLUEPRINT – FALL 2024
Topic Specifics
Health Assessment and 1. Describe the 7 components of a comprehensive health history.
Social Determinants of 2. Describe the components of the physical examination.
Health 3. What is the nursing process? (ADPIE). Provide an example for each
step in the process.
Critical Thinking and 4. How can you assist patients in carrying out the plan of care?
5. Provide examples for the levels of health prevention (primary,
Clinical Judgment in
secondary, tertiary).
Health Assessment 6. How do we assess the quality of data collected? (reliability, validity,
sensitivity, specificity).
Bates: Ch 1-2
ATI Fundamental:
Interviewing and
Communication 1. When would the nurse use a comprehensive versus a focused health
assessment?
The Health History 2. Describe the 7 components of a comprehensive health history.
Cultural and Spiritual 3. What is the chief complaint?
Assessment 4. What is the review of systems and how is it documented?
5. How do you assess mental health, spirituality, and culture?
6. Therapeutic techniques of communication
7. Best practices for eliciting a health history from the patient
Bates: 3-5 (questioning, communication methods ect.)
ATI Fundamental: 8. Describe the 7 attributes of a symptom (OLDCART).
9. Know the interview phases. When should one use open-ended and
closed -ended questions?
10.What is the difference between subjective versus objective data?
Provide examples.
11.What are considerations around addressing sensitive topics (i.e. sexual
health history)?
12.How would you assess the patient’s perspective of their
disease/injury/complaint?
13.What are the dimensions of cultural humility?
14.Describe signs and symptoms of possible physical abuse.
15.What steps should the nurse take in the pre-interview phase to
prepare for the interview?
Physical Examination: 1. Discuss the components of the general survey.
Getting Started 2. Obesity versus malnutrition risk factors
3. What are causes for an errored elevated blood pressure reading or an
General Survey errored low blood pressure reading?
Including Vital Signs 4. Discuss assessing orthostatic hypertension.
5. State the 4 cardinal assessment techniques and the sequence they
and Pain
should be performed (except for the abdomen).
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, Nutrition and 6. Documenting assessment findings- words or phrases to avoid
Hydration
Bates: 6 -8
ATI Fundamental:
The Integumentary 1. Describe all the functions of the skin.
System 2. How does one assess skin temperature and turgor?
3. Describe the features of skin abnormalities- vitiligo, psoriasis, eczema,
Bates: 9 café au-lait ect.
ATI Fundamental: 4. Describe various types of skin lesions (papule, macule, patch ect.)
5. List all the tineas that can be found on the body. What they look like,
location and expected management.
6. List patient risk factors for skin cancer.
7. Signs, symptoms and causes of variations in skin color- cyanosis,
jaundice, carotenemia, melanin.
8. How would you assess a mole for melanoma using the ABCDE-FG
acronym?
9. Pressure ulcer/injury risk factors.
The Head and Neck 1. List the anatomical location of all the lymph nodes.
Bates: 10 2. What are concerning “red flag” symptoms of a headache?
ATI Fundamental: 3. Describe patient education on how to reduce risk for traumatic brain
injuries.
4. Discriminate between a migraine and tension headache.
5. Describe signs and symptoms of hyperthyroidism versus
hypothyroidism.
The Eyes 1. How do you assess a patient’s vision? Near versus distant.
2. How do you interpret 20/20 vision?
Bates: 11 3. How do you assess a patient’s peripheral vision?
ATI Fundamental: 4. Compare signs and symptoms of cataracts versus glaucoma.
5. Describe the assessment findings of a patient with the following eye
abnormalities: exophthalmos, ectropion, hordeolum, chalazion, ptosis,
6. How does the nurse assess the cranial nerves that innervate the eyes?
7. Which cranial nerves are responsible for extraocular movements
(EOM), how does the nurse assess EOM?
8. How does one assess eye convergence?
9. How does one perform the following assessments: corneal light reflex,
pupillary response (direct versus consensual reaction)?
Mental Status and 1. What are the differences in signs and symptoms between delirium and
Mental Health dementia?
Assessment 2. How would you assess a patient’s current mental health status?
3. What is the difference between a hallucination, illusion, and delusion?
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EXAM 1 REVIEW AND BLUEPRINT – FALL 2024
Topic Specifics
Health Assessment and 1. Describe the 7 components of a comprehensive health history.
Social Determinants of 2. Describe the components of the physical examination.
Health 3. What is the nursing process? (ADPIE). Provide an example for each
step in the process.
Critical Thinking and 4. How can you assist patients in carrying out the plan of care?
5. Provide examples for the levels of health prevention (primary,
Clinical Judgment in
secondary, tertiary).
Health Assessment 6. How do we assess the quality of data collected? (reliability, validity,
sensitivity, specificity).
Bates: Ch 1-2
ATI Fundamental:
Interviewing and
Communication 1. When would the nurse use a comprehensive versus a focused health
assessment?
The Health History 2. Describe the 7 components of a comprehensive health history.
Cultural and Spiritual 3. What is the chief complaint?
Assessment 4. What is the review of systems and how is it documented?
5. How do you assess mental health, spirituality, and culture?
6. Therapeutic techniques of communication
7. Best practices for eliciting a health history from the patient
Bates: 3-5 (questioning, communication methods ect.)
ATI Fundamental: 8. Describe the 7 attributes of a symptom (OLDCART).
9. Know the interview phases. When should one use open-ended and
closed -ended questions?
10.What is the difference between subjective versus objective data?
Provide examples.
11.What are considerations around addressing sensitive topics (i.e. sexual
health history)?
12.How would you assess the patient’s perspective of their
disease/injury/complaint?
13.What are the dimensions of cultural humility?
14.Describe signs and symptoms of possible physical abuse.
15.What steps should the nurse take in the pre-interview phase to
prepare for the interview?
Physical Examination: 1. Discuss the components of the general survey.
Getting Started 2. Obesity versus malnutrition risk factors
3. What are causes for an errored elevated blood pressure reading or an
General Survey errored low blood pressure reading?
Including Vital Signs 4. Discuss assessing orthostatic hypertension.
5. State the 4 cardinal assessment techniques and the sequence they
and Pain
should be performed (except for the abdomen).
NUR 3065 Fall 2024
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, Nutrition and 6. Documenting assessment findings- words or phrases to avoid
Hydration
Bates: 6 -8
ATI Fundamental:
The Integumentary 1. Describe all the functions of the skin.
System 2. How does one assess skin temperature and turgor?
3. Describe the features of skin abnormalities- vitiligo, psoriasis, eczema,
Bates: 9 café au-lait ect.
ATI Fundamental: 4. Describe various types of skin lesions (papule, macule, patch ect.)
5. List all the tineas that can be found on the body. What they look like,
location and expected management.
6. List patient risk factors for skin cancer.
7. Signs, symptoms and causes of variations in skin color- cyanosis,
jaundice, carotenemia, melanin.
8. How would you assess a mole for melanoma using the ABCDE-FG
acronym?
9. Pressure ulcer/injury risk factors.
The Head and Neck 1. List the anatomical location of all the lymph nodes.
Bates: 10 2. What are concerning “red flag” symptoms of a headache?
ATI Fundamental: 3. Describe patient education on how to reduce risk for traumatic brain
injuries.
4. Discriminate between a migraine and tension headache.
5. Describe signs and symptoms of hyperthyroidism versus
hypothyroidism.
The Eyes 1. How do you assess a patient’s vision? Near versus distant.
2. How do you interpret 20/20 vision?
Bates: 11 3. How do you assess a patient’s peripheral vision?
ATI Fundamental: 4. Compare signs and symptoms of cataracts versus glaucoma.
5. Describe the assessment findings of a patient with the following eye
abnormalities: exophthalmos, ectropion, hordeolum, chalazion, ptosis,
6. How does the nurse assess the cranial nerves that innervate the eyes?
7. Which cranial nerves are responsible for extraocular movements
(EOM), how does the nurse assess EOM?
8. How does one assess eye convergence?
9. How does one perform the following assessments: corneal light reflex,
pupillary response (direct versus consensual reaction)?
Mental Status and 1. What are the differences in signs and symptoms between delirium and
Mental Health dementia?
Assessment 2. How would you assess a patient’s current mental health status?
3. What is the difference between a hallucination, illusion, and delusion?
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