NUR500 Study Guide Exam 1 Question
and answers verified to pass
2025/2026
Subjective Data - correct answer ✔Information directly from the patient
Objective Data - correct answer ✔include information obtained by the health care provider from
inspecting, percussing, palpating, and auscultating during physical exam. Can also be information from
family members/EMS/etc.
Diagnostic Reasoning - correct answer ✔The process of analyzing health data and drawing conclusions
to identify diagnoses.
1. attending to cues
2. formulating hypotheses
3. Gathering data
4. Evaluating each hypothesis
Nursing Process - correct answer ✔Assess, diagnose, plan, implement, evaluate
First-level priority problems - correct answer ✔Emergent and life-threatening and need immediate care
such as establishing airway or supporting breathing
Second-level priority problems - correct answer ✔Require prompt intervention to prevent further
deterioration - things like AMS, acute pain, or abnormal lab values.
Inspection - correct answer ✔close and careful observation of the patient.
, Palpation - correct answer ✔use of touch to assess temperature, moisture, texture, and organ
size/location.
Percussion - correct answer ✔tapping on the patient's skin with short and sharp strokes to assess
underlying structures. Assess location, size, and density of an organ. Detect abnormal mass or elicit
reflex.
Auscultation - correct answer ✔Listening to sounds produced by body. Using stethoscope, the heart,
blood vessels, lungs, abdomen, etc.
Stethoscope diagpragm/bell - correct answer ✔The round part of the stethoscope
Standard Precautions - correct answer ✔used for all patients
Hand Hygiene - correct answer ✔before and after physical contact with patient, contact with fluids or
fluids, and after removing gloves.
Stroke Volume - correct answer ✔Volume of blood pumped from the ventricle per beat
Third-level priority problems - correct answer ✔are important to the patient's health but can be
addressed after more urgent problems. Family coping or patient education.
Evidence-based practice - correct answer ✔a systemic approach to practice that uses research
evidence, clinical expertise, clinician knowledge, and the patient's preferences and values.
Holistic Health - correct answer ✔assess the whole person because it views the mind, body, and spirit
as interdependent and functioning as a whole within the environment.
and answers verified to pass
2025/2026
Subjective Data - correct answer ✔Information directly from the patient
Objective Data - correct answer ✔include information obtained by the health care provider from
inspecting, percussing, palpating, and auscultating during physical exam. Can also be information from
family members/EMS/etc.
Diagnostic Reasoning - correct answer ✔The process of analyzing health data and drawing conclusions
to identify diagnoses.
1. attending to cues
2. formulating hypotheses
3. Gathering data
4. Evaluating each hypothesis
Nursing Process - correct answer ✔Assess, diagnose, plan, implement, evaluate
First-level priority problems - correct answer ✔Emergent and life-threatening and need immediate care
such as establishing airway or supporting breathing
Second-level priority problems - correct answer ✔Require prompt intervention to prevent further
deterioration - things like AMS, acute pain, or abnormal lab values.
Inspection - correct answer ✔close and careful observation of the patient.
, Palpation - correct answer ✔use of touch to assess temperature, moisture, texture, and organ
size/location.
Percussion - correct answer ✔tapping on the patient's skin with short and sharp strokes to assess
underlying structures. Assess location, size, and density of an organ. Detect abnormal mass or elicit
reflex.
Auscultation - correct answer ✔Listening to sounds produced by body. Using stethoscope, the heart,
blood vessels, lungs, abdomen, etc.
Stethoscope diagpragm/bell - correct answer ✔The round part of the stethoscope
Standard Precautions - correct answer ✔used for all patients
Hand Hygiene - correct answer ✔before and after physical contact with patient, contact with fluids or
fluids, and after removing gloves.
Stroke Volume - correct answer ✔Volume of blood pumped from the ventricle per beat
Third-level priority problems - correct answer ✔are important to the patient's health but can be
addressed after more urgent problems. Family coping or patient education.
Evidence-based practice - correct answer ✔a systemic approach to practice that uses research
evidence, clinical expertise, clinician knowledge, and the patient's preferences and values.
Holistic Health - correct answer ✔assess the whole person because it views the mind, body, and spirit
as interdependent and functioning as a whole within the environment.
