CNUR 107 MIDTERM 1 REVIEW | COMPLETE NURSING STUDY GUIDE, PRACTICE
QUESTIONS & EXAM PREP 2026/2027
Health Promotion - correct answer ✔✔The process of enabling people to increase control over
and to improve their health
Primary Prevention - correct answer ✔✔Preventing people from getting sick. Ex. Immunizations,
proper nutrition, proper exercise
Secondary Prevention - correct answer ✔✔Early detection, before symptoms arise.
Ex. Screening tests
Tertiary Prevention - correct answer ✔✔Prevention of complication when disease occurs
Ex.) Diabetic Education
Social Determinants of Health - correct answer ✔✔What makes people healthy/not healthy
- Includes: socioeconomic status, personal health practices, individual capacity & coping skills,
biology & genetics, health services, gender, and culture
Culturalism - correct answer ✔✔Assuming ones culture is prone to drug and alcohol abuse
Nursing process - correct answer ✔✔1. Assessment
2. Diagnosis
3. Outcome identification
4. Planning
5. Implementation
6. Evaluation
,Critical Thinking - correct answer ✔✔The ability to interpret argument, evidence, or raw
information in a logical or unbiased fashion
Evidence-Informed Assessment - correct answer ✔✔Evidence based Medicine: Based on firm
data rather than intuition, belief, etc.
Critical Thinking & Evidence Informed Assessment - correct answer ✔✔Ability to assess and
provide high quality assessment = foundation of nursing
12 Critical Thinking skills in Assessment - correct answer ✔✔1. Identifying assumptions
2. Identifying an organized/comprehensive approach to the assessment
3. Validation/accuracy/reliability of data
4. Distinguishing normal from abnormal
5. Making inferences or hypothesis
6. Clustering related cues
7. Distinguishing relevant from irrelevant
8. Recognizing inconsistencies
9. Identifying patters
10. Identifying missing information
11. Promoting Health
12. Diagnosing actual and potential (risk) problems from assessment data
Guidelines related to Critical Thinking during Health Assessment - correct answer ✔✔- Building
trust
- Engage through listening
- Convey respect for differences
, Subjective Data - correct answer ✔✔What the patient says
- Feelings, sensations, expectations
Objective Data - correct answer ✔✔What the HCP observes during the exam
- Measurable
- Seen, felt, heard, small
Signs - correct answer ✔✔Objective abnormality the examiner observes during the assessment
- Laboratory values
- BP, Pulse, Blood work
Symptoms - correct answer ✔✔Subjective sensation that the pt. feels from the disorder or
reason for seeking care
Data Collection: Interviewing Skills - correct answer ✔✔- Verbal & Nonverbal communication
- Power differential
- Unconditional postive regard
- Empathy
- Active listening
- Privacy
- Ensure minimal interruptions
- Culture
- Dress
- Note taking
QUESTIONS & EXAM PREP 2026/2027
Health Promotion - correct answer ✔✔The process of enabling people to increase control over
and to improve their health
Primary Prevention - correct answer ✔✔Preventing people from getting sick. Ex. Immunizations,
proper nutrition, proper exercise
Secondary Prevention - correct answer ✔✔Early detection, before symptoms arise.
Ex. Screening tests
Tertiary Prevention - correct answer ✔✔Prevention of complication when disease occurs
Ex.) Diabetic Education
Social Determinants of Health - correct answer ✔✔What makes people healthy/not healthy
- Includes: socioeconomic status, personal health practices, individual capacity & coping skills,
biology & genetics, health services, gender, and culture
Culturalism - correct answer ✔✔Assuming ones culture is prone to drug and alcohol abuse
Nursing process - correct answer ✔✔1. Assessment
2. Diagnosis
3. Outcome identification
4. Planning
5. Implementation
6. Evaluation
,Critical Thinking - correct answer ✔✔The ability to interpret argument, evidence, or raw
information in a logical or unbiased fashion
Evidence-Informed Assessment - correct answer ✔✔Evidence based Medicine: Based on firm
data rather than intuition, belief, etc.
Critical Thinking & Evidence Informed Assessment - correct answer ✔✔Ability to assess and
provide high quality assessment = foundation of nursing
12 Critical Thinking skills in Assessment - correct answer ✔✔1. Identifying assumptions
2. Identifying an organized/comprehensive approach to the assessment
3. Validation/accuracy/reliability of data
4. Distinguishing normal from abnormal
5. Making inferences or hypothesis
6. Clustering related cues
7. Distinguishing relevant from irrelevant
8. Recognizing inconsistencies
9. Identifying patters
10. Identifying missing information
11. Promoting Health
12. Diagnosing actual and potential (risk) problems from assessment data
Guidelines related to Critical Thinking during Health Assessment - correct answer ✔✔- Building
trust
- Engage through listening
- Convey respect for differences
, Subjective Data - correct answer ✔✔What the patient says
- Feelings, sensations, expectations
Objective Data - correct answer ✔✔What the HCP observes during the exam
- Measurable
- Seen, felt, heard, small
Signs - correct answer ✔✔Objective abnormality the examiner observes during the assessment
- Laboratory values
- BP, Pulse, Blood work
Symptoms - correct answer ✔✔Subjective sensation that the pt. feels from the disorder or
reason for seeking care
Data Collection: Interviewing Skills - correct answer ✔✔- Verbal & Nonverbal communication
- Power differential
- Unconditional postive regard
- Empathy
- Active listening
- Privacy
- Ensure minimal interruptions
- Culture
- Dress
- Note taking
