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NR.120.503
Health Assessment I
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Exam
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Health Assessment Exam
Which of the following statements represents subjective data obtained from
the patient regarding his skin?
A) Skin appears dry.
B) No obvious lesions
C) Denies color change
D) Lesion noted lateral aspect right arm
C) Denies color change
Remember that the history (from the chief complaint through review of systems)
should be limited to patient statements or subjective data—factors that the person
says were or were not present.
Subjective data is what the patient tells you.
The following information is best placed in which category? "The patient had a
stent placed in the left anterior descending artery (LAD) in 1999."
A) Medical
B) Surgical
C) Obstetrics/gynecology
D) Psychiatric
B) Surgical
Provide information relative to Adult Illnesses in each of four areas: Medical,
Surgical, Obstetric/Gynecologic, and Psychiatric.
During the aging process, the hair can look gray or white and begin to feel thin
and fine. The nurse practitioner knows that this occurs because of a decrease
in:
A) pigmentation
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B) thyroid stimulating hormone
C) phagocytes
D) fungacytes
A) pigmentation
Hair undergoes a series of changes. Scalp hair loses its pigment (functioning of
melanocytes) so the hair looks gray or white and feels thin and fine. The other
options are not correct.
You are speaking to an 8th grade class about health prevention and are
preparing to discuss the ABCDEs of melanoma. Which of the following
descriptions correctly defines the ABCDEs?
A) A = actinic; B = basal cell; C = color changes, especially blue; D = diameter
>6 mm; E = evolution
B) A = asymmetry; B = irregular borders; C = color changes, especially blue; D
= diameter >6 mm; E = evolution
C) A = actinic; B = irregular borders; C = keratoses; D = dystrophic nails; E =
evolution
D) A = asymmetry; B = regular borders; C = color changes, especially orange;
D = diameter >6 mm; E = evolution
B) A = asymmetry; B = irregular borders; C = color changes, especially blue; D =
diameter >6 mm; E = evolution
You are examining the skin on a 22 year old female when you notice a
circumscribed superficial lesion that is elevated approximately 0.5cm in
diameter, filled with serous fluid. What type of lesion is this?
A) macule
B) papule
C) vesicle
D) spider angioma
C) vesicle
Vesicle - up to 1.0 cm filled with serous fluid
A 72-year-old teacher comes to a skilled nursing facility for rehabilitation after
being in the hospital for 6 weeks. She was treated for sepsis and respiratory
failure and had to be on a ventilator for 3 weeks. The nurse is completing an
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initial assessment and evaluating the client's skin condition. On her sacrum
there is full-thickness skin loss that is 5 cm in diameter with damage to the
subcutaneous tissue. The underlying muscle is not affected. What is the stage
of this pressure ulcer?
A) Stage 1
B) Stage 2
C) Stage 3
D) Stage 4
C) Stage 3
A crater appears in the skin, with full-thickness skin loss and damage to or necrosis
of subcutaneous tissue that may extend to, but not through underlying muscle.
Mrs. Anderson presents with an itchy rash which is raised and appears and
disappears in various locations. Each lesion lasts for many minutes. What
most likely accounts for this rash?
A) Insect bites
B) Wheals, urticaria, or hives
C) Psoriasis
D) Purpura
B) Wheals, urticaria, or hives
Wheals/urticaria - a somewhat irregular, relatively transient, superficial area of
localized skin edema.
Ethel is a 68 year old Caucasian female who is new to your area. She shows
you multiple brown colored, flat lesions on her face, chest, and hands that
have been present for years. You respond that these are likely:
A) solar lentigos
B) melanomas
C) keloids
D) fissures
A) solar lentigos
solar lentigos are from sun damage, are more common on the face, shoulders, and
hands.
NR.120.503
Health Assessment I
Download now
Johns Hopkins University
School of Nursing
HIGH YIELDS QUESTIONS
NEWEST MODEL 2026 EXAM LATEST
VERSION SOLVED QUESTIONS &
ANSWERS VERIFIED 100 %
Exam
, Page 2 of 36
Health Assessment Exam
Which of the following statements represents subjective data obtained from
the patient regarding his skin?
A) Skin appears dry.
B) No obvious lesions
C) Denies color change
D) Lesion noted lateral aspect right arm
C) Denies color change
Remember that the history (from the chief complaint through review of systems)
should be limited to patient statements or subjective data—factors that the person
says were or were not present.
Subjective data is what the patient tells you.
The following information is best placed in which category? "The patient had a
stent placed in the left anterior descending artery (LAD) in 1999."
A) Medical
B) Surgical
C) Obstetrics/gynecology
D) Psychiatric
B) Surgical
Provide information relative to Adult Illnesses in each of four areas: Medical,
Surgical, Obstetric/Gynecologic, and Psychiatric.
During the aging process, the hair can look gray or white and begin to feel thin
and fine. The nurse practitioner knows that this occurs because of a decrease
in:
A) pigmentation
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B) thyroid stimulating hormone
C) phagocytes
D) fungacytes
A) pigmentation
Hair undergoes a series of changes. Scalp hair loses its pigment (functioning of
melanocytes) so the hair looks gray or white and feels thin and fine. The other
options are not correct.
You are speaking to an 8th grade class about health prevention and are
preparing to discuss the ABCDEs of melanoma. Which of the following
descriptions correctly defines the ABCDEs?
A) A = actinic; B = basal cell; C = color changes, especially blue; D = diameter
>6 mm; E = evolution
B) A = asymmetry; B = irregular borders; C = color changes, especially blue; D
= diameter >6 mm; E = evolution
C) A = actinic; B = irregular borders; C = keratoses; D = dystrophic nails; E =
evolution
D) A = asymmetry; B = regular borders; C = color changes, especially orange;
D = diameter >6 mm; E = evolution
B) A = asymmetry; B = irregular borders; C = color changes, especially blue; D =
diameter >6 mm; E = evolution
You are examining the skin on a 22 year old female when you notice a
circumscribed superficial lesion that is elevated approximately 0.5cm in
diameter, filled with serous fluid. What type of lesion is this?
A) macule
B) papule
C) vesicle
D) spider angioma
C) vesicle
Vesicle - up to 1.0 cm filled with serous fluid
A 72-year-old teacher comes to a skilled nursing facility for rehabilitation after
being in the hospital for 6 weeks. She was treated for sepsis and respiratory
failure and had to be on a ventilator for 3 weeks. The nurse is completing an
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initial assessment and evaluating the client's skin condition. On her sacrum
there is full-thickness skin loss that is 5 cm in diameter with damage to the
subcutaneous tissue. The underlying muscle is not affected. What is the stage
of this pressure ulcer?
A) Stage 1
B) Stage 2
C) Stage 3
D) Stage 4
C) Stage 3
A crater appears in the skin, with full-thickness skin loss and damage to or necrosis
of subcutaneous tissue that may extend to, but not through underlying muscle.
Mrs. Anderson presents with an itchy rash which is raised and appears and
disappears in various locations. Each lesion lasts for many minutes. What
most likely accounts for this rash?
A) Insect bites
B) Wheals, urticaria, or hives
C) Psoriasis
D) Purpura
B) Wheals, urticaria, or hives
Wheals/urticaria - a somewhat irregular, relatively transient, superficial area of
localized skin edema.
Ethel is a 68 year old Caucasian female who is new to your area. She shows
you multiple brown colored, flat lesions on her face, chest, and hands that
have been present for years. You respond that these are likely:
A) solar lentigos
B) melanomas
C) keloids
D) fissures
A) solar lentigos
solar lentigos are from sun damage, are more common on the face, shoulders, and
hands.
