NUR3069 BUMBACH EXAM 1 | QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS | 2025/2026 SOLVED 100% CORRECT
Define focused database? Answer - this is used for a limited or short-term
problem, concerns one problem or body system
Define holistic health? Answer - the view that the mind, body, and spirit are
interdependent and function as a whole within the environment.
What's the difference between a medical diagnosis and a nursing diagnosis?
Answer - a medical diagnosis is focused on the malfunctioning of a organ
caused by disease while a nursing diagnosis is the evaluation of the whole
person to actual problems. Nursing diagnosis are clinical judgements about
person's response to actual/potential state.
Define objective data? Answer - this is what the health professional observes
by inspecting, palpating, percussing and auscultating
Define subjective data? Answer - what the person says about themself/health
status
What is the narrow definition of holistic health? Answer - absence of disease
When is an episodic database collected? Answer - limited, short-term
problems, focuses on one problem or body system
,When is a follow-up database collected? Answer - follows up short-term or
chronic health problems and the statuses of problems are evaluated at regular
intervals
What are not examples of subjective data? Answer - results about the patient's
problems, like a diagnosis of arthritis or pneumonia, that's a medical diagnosis
Differentiate between subjective and objective data? Answer - Objective data
is what the nurse observes including level of consciousness and orientation,
subjective is anything the patient says about themselves including if they say
something like a "sore throat" which verges on a medical diagnosis and is not
objective data, objective data would be pustules on the posterior throat
Differentiate between first, second, and third level priorities? Answer - 1st- life
threatening
2nd- problems requiring prompt intervention to prevent futher deterioration,
like risk of infection
3rd- can be addresses after important stuff, like wellness
The concept of health and healing has evolved in recent years. Which is the
best description of health? Answer - health depends on the interaction of
mind, body, and spirit within the environment
A patient is in the emergency department with nausea and vomiting. Which
would you include in the database? Answer - a diet and GI history
The expert nurse differs from the novice nurse by acting without consciously
thinking about the actions, what is this? Answer - intuition
,What would be included in a holistic model of assessment? Answer - a
patient's perception of his/her health status
What are the steps of the nursing process? Answer - 1. assessment 2.
diagnosis. 3. outcome identification. 4. planning. 5. implementation. 6.
evaluation ADOIPIE
Define acculturation Answer - the process of social and psychological
exchanges with encounters between people of different cultures, resulting in
changes in either group
Define cultural and linguistic competence Answer - a set of congruent
behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come together in a system of
professionals that enable them to work in cross-culture situations
What are the characteristics of culture? Answer - learned, shaped, adapted,
dynamic
What is a national standard? Answer - Health care organizations should ensure
patients are effective, understandable, and get respectful care from staff in a
manner compatible with cultural health beliefs, practices, and language
Define ethnicity Answer - a social group within the social system that clains to
pssess variable traits such as a common geographic origin, migratory status,
and religion.
Define health/illness Answer - the balance or imbalance of a person, both
within one's being (physical, mental, spiritual) and the outside world (natural,
communal, metaphysical).
, Define ad hoc interpreter? Answer - using a patient's family member, friend, or
child as interpreter for a patient with limited english proficiency, LEP
Define animism? Answer - imagining that inantimate objets come alive and
have human characteristics
What is the hold/cold theory? Answer - hispanic thing that is based on
humoral theory. Objects are classified not by hot/cold physicality but by their
hot/cold effect on body. Four humors of body, bile, phlegm, blood and must be
kept moist, dry, whatever
What are the median ages of people groups? Answer - asian 36 years, non-
hispanic white is 40 years, hispanic is 27 years
What is the heritage consistency theory? Answer - studies how a person's
lifestyle matches their heritage
Define elderspeak? Answer - infantilizing and demeaning language used by a
health professional when speaking to an older adult
Define leading question? Answer - question that implies one answer is better
than another
Define open-ended question? Answer - asks for longer narrative info,
unbiased, leaves the person free to answer in any way
What are internal and external factors that facilitate communication? Answer -
internal- liking, empathy, listening
external- privacy, no interruptions, environment, dress, maybe tape/video
ANSWERS | 2025/2026 SOLVED 100% CORRECT
Define focused database? Answer - this is used for a limited or short-term
problem, concerns one problem or body system
Define holistic health? Answer - the view that the mind, body, and spirit are
interdependent and function as a whole within the environment.
What's the difference between a medical diagnosis and a nursing diagnosis?
Answer - a medical diagnosis is focused on the malfunctioning of a organ
caused by disease while a nursing diagnosis is the evaluation of the whole
person to actual problems. Nursing diagnosis are clinical judgements about
person's response to actual/potential state.
Define objective data? Answer - this is what the health professional observes
by inspecting, palpating, percussing and auscultating
Define subjective data? Answer - what the person says about themself/health
status
What is the narrow definition of holistic health? Answer - absence of disease
When is an episodic database collected? Answer - limited, short-term
problems, focuses on one problem or body system
,When is a follow-up database collected? Answer - follows up short-term or
chronic health problems and the statuses of problems are evaluated at regular
intervals
What are not examples of subjective data? Answer - results about the patient's
problems, like a diagnosis of arthritis or pneumonia, that's a medical diagnosis
Differentiate between subjective and objective data? Answer - Objective data
is what the nurse observes including level of consciousness and orientation,
subjective is anything the patient says about themselves including if they say
something like a "sore throat" which verges on a medical diagnosis and is not
objective data, objective data would be pustules on the posterior throat
Differentiate between first, second, and third level priorities? Answer - 1st- life
threatening
2nd- problems requiring prompt intervention to prevent futher deterioration,
like risk of infection
3rd- can be addresses after important stuff, like wellness
The concept of health and healing has evolved in recent years. Which is the
best description of health? Answer - health depends on the interaction of
mind, body, and spirit within the environment
A patient is in the emergency department with nausea and vomiting. Which
would you include in the database? Answer - a diet and GI history
The expert nurse differs from the novice nurse by acting without consciously
thinking about the actions, what is this? Answer - intuition
,What would be included in a holistic model of assessment? Answer - a
patient's perception of his/her health status
What are the steps of the nursing process? Answer - 1. assessment 2.
diagnosis. 3. outcome identification. 4. planning. 5. implementation. 6.
evaluation ADOIPIE
Define acculturation Answer - the process of social and psychological
exchanges with encounters between people of different cultures, resulting in
changes in either group
Define cultural and linguistic competence Answer - a set of congruent
behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come together in a system of
professionals that enable them to work in cross-culture situations
What are the characteristics of culture? Answer - learned, shaped, adapted,
dynamic
What is a national standard? Answer - Health care organizations should ensure
patients are effective, understandable, and get respectful care from staff in a
manner compatible with cultural health beliefs, practices, and language
Define ethnicity Answer - a social group within the social system that clains to
pssess variable traits such as a common geographic origin, migratory status,
and religion.
Define health/illness Answer - the balance or imbalance of a person, both
within one's being (physical, mental, spiritual) and the outside world (natural,
communal, metaphysical).
, Define ad hoc interpreter? Answer - using a patient's family member, friend, or
child as interpreter for a patient with limited english proficiency, LEP
Define animism? Answer - imagining that inantimate objets come alive and
have human characteristics
What is the hold/cold theory? Answer - hispanic thing that is based on
humoral theory. Objects are classified not by hot/cold physicality but by their
hot/cold effect on body. Four humors of body, bile, phlegm, blood and must be
kept moist, dry, whatever
What are the median ages of people groups? Answer - asian 36 years, non-
hispanic white is 40 years, hispanic is 27 years
What is the heritage consistency theory? Answer - studies how a person's
lifestyle matches their heritage
Define elderspeak? Answer - infantilizing and demeaning language used by a
health professional when speaking to an older adult
Define leading question? Answer - question that implies one answer is better
than another
Define open-ended question? Answer - asks for longer narrative info,
unbiased, leaves the person free to answer in any way
What are internal and external factors that facilitate communication? Answer -
internal- liking, empathy, listening
external- privacy, no interruptions, environment, dress, maybe tape/video
