NUR 505 2026 EXAM STUDY GUIDE
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
● RESPECT model . Answer: Rapport
Empathy
Support
Partnership
Explanations
Cultural Competence
Trust
● ROS . Answer: review of systems; an inventory of specific body
systems designed to document current or past symptoms; not physical
exam
● problem list . Answer: created after subjective and objective data has
been organized; all pertinent data and exam findings, illustrations, lab
data, imaging studies, and prior diagnoses are reviewed to develop
problem list in form of running log with: problem number, date of onset,
description of problem, and date problem was resolved
,● Assessment (diagnosis) . Answer: develop assessment for each of the
problems in problem list; most severe listed first; must be codable using
ICD 10 codes; state whether improving, worsening, or resolved; include
differential diagnoses
● plan . Answer: diagnostics to be performed or ordered, therapeutic
treatment plan with rationale, and patient education
● Pregnancy: PE & history taking . Answer: include gravidity/parity,
menstrual/OBGYN hx, and how they are adjusting to pregnancy; include
fundal height, fetal HR, pelvic measurements, and uterine size in
physical examinations
● Older adults: PE & history taking . Answer: add community and
family support systems, functional assessment; note skin lesions,
baldness/thinning of hair, chest shape changes, muscle mass/posture
change, cognitive function, gait and balance
● Tanner Stage . Answer: puberty changes; a scale of physical
development in children and adolescents that measures development of
primary and secondary sex characteristics
● When are children considered dependable historians . Answer: age 7
● HEEADSSS . Answer: Adolescent screening tool;
,Home
Education and employment
Eating
Activities
Drugs
Sexuality
Suicide and depression
Safety
● PACES . Answer: adolescent screening tool;
Parents/peers
accidents/alcohol/drugs
Cigarettes
emotional issues
school/sexuality
● CRAFFT . Answer: 6-item screen for alcohol or drugs in adolescents,
14-18
(C=car, R=relax, A=alone, F=forget, F= family or friends, T= trouble)
● Infants: PE & history taking . Answer: add birth hx, growth trajectory,
developmental milestones, diet (breast fed/formula fed), sleep injury
prevention; include head circumference, fontanels, molding, quality of
, cry, primitive reflexes, gross and fine motor development,
speech/language, cognitive, social/emotional
● CAGE . Answer: screening for alcoholism; cut down, annoyed, guilty,
eye opener
● HITS . Answer: screening tool for domestic violence; (hurt-insult-
threaten-scream)
● partner violence screen . Answer: Have you been hit, kicked, punched
or otherwise hurt by someone within the past year?
Do you feel safe in your current relationship?
Is there a partner from a previous relationship who is making you feel
unsafe now?
● FICA screening . Answer: spirituality screening (faith/belief/meaning,
importance/influence, community, address/action in care)
● 5Ps sexual history . Answer: -Partners
-Pregnancy prevention
-Protection STIs
-Practices
-Past hx STIs
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
● RESPECT model . Answer: Rapport
Empathy
Support
Partnership
Explanations
Cultural Competence
Trust
● ROS . Answer: review of systems; an inventory of specific body
systems designed to document current or past symptoms; not physical
exam
● problem list . Answer: created after subjective and objective data has
been organized; all pertinent data and exam findings, illustrations, lab
data, imaging studies, and prior diagnoses are reviewed to develop
problem list in form of running log with: problem number, date of onset,
description of problem, and date problem was resolved
,● Assessment (diagnosis) . Answer: develop assessment for each of the
problems in problem list; most severe listed first; must be codable using
ICD 10 codes; state whether improving, worsening, or resolved; include
differential diagnoses
● plan . Answer: diagnostics to be performed or ordered, therapeutic
treatment plan with rationale, and patient education
● Pregnancy: PE & history taking . Answer: include gravidity/parity,
menstrual/OBGYN hx, and how they are adjusting to pregnancy; include
fundal height, fetal HR, pelvic measurements, and uterine size in
physical examinations
● Older adults: PE & history taking . Answer: add community and
family support systems, functional assessment; note skin lesions,
baldness/thinning of hair, chest shape changes, muscle mass/posture
change, cognitive function, gait and balance
● Tanner Stage . Answer: puberty changes; a scale of physical
development in children and adolescents that measures development of
primary and secondary sex characteristics
● When are children considered dependable historians . Answer: age 7
● HEEADSSS . Answer: Adolescent screening tool;
,Home
Education and employment
Eating
Activities
Drugs
Sexuality
Suicide and depression
Safety
● PACES . Answer: adolescent screening tool;
Parents/peers
accidents/alcohol/drugs
Cigarettes
emotional issues
school/sexuality
● CRAFFT . Answer: 6-item screen for alcohol or drugs in adolescents,
14-18
(C=car, R=relax, A=alone, F=forget, F= family or friends, T= trouble)
● Infants: PE & history taking . Answer: add birth hx, growth trajectory,
developmental milestones, diet (breast fed/formula fed), sleep injury
prevention; include head circumference, fontanels, molding, quality of
, cry, primitive reflexes, gross and fine motor development,
speech/language, cognitive, social/emotional
● CAGE . Answer: screening for alcoholism; cut down, annoyed, guilty,
eye opener
● HITS . Answer: screening tool for domestic violence; (hurt-insult-
threaten-scream)
● partner violence screen . Answer: Have you been hit, kicked, punched
or otherwise hurt by someone within the past year?
Do you feel safe in your current relationship?
Is there a partner from a previous relationship who is making you feel
unsafe now?
● FICA screening . Answer: spirituality screening (faith/belief/meaning,
importance/influence, community, address/action in care)
● 5Ps sexual history . Answer: -Partners
-Pregnancy prevention
-Protection STIs
-Practices
-Past hx STIs
