NUR 530 Assessment Quiz 1
Questions And Answerd
/. Nicoteri's favorite opening question - Answer-✅"Do you consider yourself a healthy
person?"
/.What can complicate the interview process? - Answer-✅Well-meaning family members
who try to give the patient's history for them
/.What is the difference between a symptom and a sign? - Answer-✅Symptom- patient
describes complaint
Sign- observations made by clinician
/.Health history is all _________ - Answer-✅subjective
/.Physical exam is all _________ - Answer-✅objective
/.Assessment order - Answer-✅Inspection, Palpation, Percussion, Auscultation
/.PQRST - Answer-✅Provocative/palliative
Quality
Region/radiation
Severity
Timing
/.COLDSPA - Answer-✅Character
Onset
Location
Duration
Severity
Pattern
Associated factors
/.What is included in a comprehensive mental exam? - Answer-✅LOC, attention,
memory, sensory perception, thought processes and content, insight, judgement, affect,
mood
/.What is included in a MMSE? What is the max score? - Answer-✅Orientation
Registration (recite 3 words)
Attention/calculation (count backwards by 7)
Recall (later in interview say 3 words)
Language (naming, recite, reading, writing, draw a shape)
, Max score 30 points
/.Sex vs Sexuality vs Gender - Answer-✅Sex: biologic phenotype at birth
Sexuality: gender of person attracted to
Gender: how someone sees themselves
/.Transwoman vs Transman - Answer-✅Transwoman: biological male who ID's as
female
Transman: biological female who ID's as male
/.Culture vs. Ethnicity - Answer-✅culture is learned and defines norms and values
ethnicity is identity based on common physical, social or political characteristics
/.Acculturation - Answer-✅(n.) the modification of the social patterns, traits, or structures
of one group or society by contact with those of another; the resultant blend
/.Assimilation - Answer-✅-complete loss of cultural identity
-when smaller groups "melt" into the mainstream
/.Ethnocentrism - Answer-✅The view that one's culture's way of doing things is the right
and natural way
/.cultural relativism - Answer-✅not judging a culture but trying to understand it on its own
terms (opposite of ethnocentrism)
/.Nuclear family - Answer-✅Mother, father and children living as a unit
/.binuclear family - Answer-✅a type of family consisting of divorced parents living in two
separate households with children belonging to both households
/.extended family - Answer-✅a family that extends beyond the nuclear family, including
grandparents, aunts, uncles, and other relatives, who all live nearby or in one
household.
/.Reconstituted/blended family - Answer-✅step-parents, step-kids, 1/2 siblings
/.Most common and concerning symptoms of skin - Answer-✅Growths
Rashes
Hair loss or nail changes
/.Skin assessment includes: - Answer-✅Color, Moisture, Temperature, Texture, Turgor
and Lesions
/.How are skin lesions described? - Answer-✅-macular, papular, vesicular
-location
-distribution (linear, annular, clustered, arciform)
Questions And Answerd
/. Nicoteri's favorite opening question - Answer-✅"Do you consider yourself a healthy
person?"
/.What can complicate the interview process? - Answer-✅Well-meaning family members
who try to give the patient's history for them
/.What is the difference between a symptom and a sign? - Answer-✅Symptom- patient
describes complaint
Sign- observations made by clinician
/.Health history is all _________ - Answer-✅subjective
/.Physical exam is all _________ - Answer-✅objective
/.Assessment order - Answer-✅Inspection, Palpation, Percussion, Auscultation
/.PQRST - Answer-✅Provocative/palliative
Quality
Region/radiation
Severity
Timing
/.COLDSPA - Answer-✅Character
Onset
Location
Duration
Severity
Pattern
Associated factors
/.What is included in a comprehensive mental exam? - Answer-✅LOC, attention,
memory, sensory perception, thought processes and content, insight, judgement, affect,
mood
/.What is included in a MMSE? What is the max score? - Answer-✅Orientation
Registration (recite 3 words)
Attention/calculation (count backwards by 7)
Recall (later in interview say 3 words)
Language (naming, recite, reading, writing, draw a shape)
, Max score 30 points
/.Sex vs Sexuality vs Gender - Answer-✅Sex: biologic phenotype at birth
Sexuality: gender of person attracted to
Gender: how someone sees themselves
/.Transwoman vs Transman - Answer-✅Transwoman: biological male who ID's as
female
Transman: biological female who ID's as male
/.Culture vs. Ethnicity - Answer-✅culture is learned and defines norms and values
ethnicity is identity based on common physical, social or political characteristics
/.Acculturation - Answer-✅(n.) the modification of the social patterns, traits, or structures
of one group or society by contact with those of another; the resultant blend
/.Assimilation - Answer-✅-complete loss of cultural identity
-when smaller groups "melt" into the mainstream
/.Ethnocentrism - Answer-✅The view that one's culture's way of doing things is the right
and natural way
/.cultural relativism - Answer-✅not judging a culture but trying to understand it on its own
terms (opposite of ethnocentrism)
/.Nuclear family - Answer-✅Mother, father and children living as a unit
/.binuclear family - Answer-✅a type of family consisting of divorced parents living in two
separate households with children belonging to both households
/.extended family - Answer-✅a family that extends beyond the nuclear family, including
grandparents, aunts, uncles, and other relatives, who all live nearby or in one
household.
/.Reconstituted/blended family - Answer-✅step-parents, step-kids, 1/2 siblings
/.Most common and concerning symptoms of skin - Answer-✅Growths
Rashes
Hair loss or nail changes
/.Skin assessment includes: - Answer-✅Color, Moisture, Temperature, Texture, Turgor
and Lesions
/.How are skin lesions described? - Answer-✅-macular, papular, vesicular
-location
-distribution (linear, annular, clustered, arciform)
