NUR 2092 / NUR2092 Health
Assessment final exam Quiz Bank |
Questions and Answers| Latest 2026
/ 2027 | Rasmussen College
Q: Tasks that are necessary for self-care such as
eating/feeding bathing grooming toileting walking and
transferring.
Answer: Activity of Daily Living
Q: Activities that an older adult performs as a family
member or as a member of society or community including
occupational and recreational activities.
Answer: Advanced Activities of Daily Living
Q: Assessment of the health and well-being of an
individual's caregiver.
Answer: Caregiver Assessment
Q: The perceived strain by the person who cares for an
older chronically ill or disabled person.
Answer: Caregiver Burden
Q: Domains included in mental status assessments such as
attention memory orientation language visuospatial skills and
higher cognitive functions.
Answer: Domains of Cognition
Q: Assessment of an individual’s home environment and
community systems including hazards at home.
Answer: Environment
Q: The ability of a person to perform activities necessary
to live in modern society; may include driving using the
telephone or performing personal tasks such as baking or
toileting.
Answer: Functional Ability
, Q: A systematic assessment that includes assessment of an
individual's activities of daily living instrumental activities
of daily living and mobility.
Answer: Functional Assessment
Q: A person's actual performance of activities and tasks
associated with current life roles.
Answer: Functional Status
Q: Multidimensional assessment; physical examination and
assessments of mental status functional status social and
economic status pain and physical environment safety.
Answer: Geriatric Assessment
Q: Supportive services provided in the home: skilled
nursing care primary care therapy (physical occupational speech)
social work nutrition case management ADL assistance durable
medical equipment.
Answer: Home Care
Q: Functional abilities necessary for independent
community living such as shopping meal preparation housekeeping
laundry managing finances taking medications and using
transportation.
Answer: Instrumental Activities of Daily Living
Q: An instrument used to measure physical function in
older adults and the chronically ill.
Answer: Katz Index of Independence in Activities of Daily
Living
Q: An instrument used to measure an individual's ability
to perform instrumental activities of daily living; may assist
in assessing one's ability to live independently.
Answer: Lawton Instrumental Activities of Daily Living
Q: Tests that measure balance gait motor coordination and
endurance.
Answer: Physical Performance Measures
, Q: The domain that focuses on an individual's
relationships within family social groups and the community.
Answer: Social Domain
Q: Informal supports accessed by older adults such as
family members and close friends’ neighbors church societies
neighborhood groups and senior centers.
Answer: Social Networks
Q: Assessment of the individual's spiritual health.
Answer: Spiritual Assessment
Q: a. Katz. Lawton CORRECT ANSWER. Tinetti. Norbeck
Answer: An appropriate tool to assess an individual's
instrumental activities of daily living is a tool by:
Q: a. Functional status refers to one's ability to care
for another person. An older adult's functional status is
usually static over time. An older adult's functional status may
vary from independence to disability. CORRECT ANSWER. Dementia
is an example of functional status.
Answer: Which statement is true regarding an individual's
functional status?
Q: a. Alzheimer dementia. Attention deficit disorder.
Depression. Delirium CORRECT ANSWER
Answer: An older person is experiencing an acute change in
cognition. You recognize that this disorder is?
Q: a. Family relationships CORRECT ANSWER. Ability to cook
meals. Ability to balance the checkbook and pay bills. Hazards
found in the home
Answer: Assessment of the social domain includes:
Q: a. Ask open-ended questions. Complete the entire
assessment in one session. Ask the family members for
information instead of the older individual. Ask simple
questions that have yes or no answers. CORRECT ANSWER
Answer: You will use which technique when assessing an
older individual who has cognitive impairment?
, Q: a. Up and go test CORRECT ANSWER. Performance of
activities of daily living. Older American’s resources and
services multidimensional functional assessment questionnaire.
Lawton IADL Instrument
Answer: An older person needs to be assessed before going
home as to whether he or she is able to go outside alone safely.
Which test is best for this assessment?
Q: a. Experience less pain. can provide a self-report of
pain *CORRECT ANSWER8. Cannot be relied on to self-report pain.
Will not express pain sensations.
Answer: An older adult has had surgery for a fractured hip
and has a history of dementia. You should keep in mind that
older adults with cognitive impairment:
Q: a. A daughter who is taking her older father home to
live with her. An older patient who lives alone. A wife who has
cared for her husband for the past 4 years at home CORRECT
ANSWER. A son whose parents live in an assisted living facility
Answer: An appropriate use of the caregiver strain index
would be which situation?
Q: a. A neighbor who drops by with newspapers and
magazines on a regular basis. An area church that offers a
weekly activity an luncheon for seniors in the neighborhood. A
home health care agency that provides weekly blood pressure
screenings at the church luncheon CORRECT ANSWER. A senior
citizen chess club whose members hold classes at the local boys
club
Answer: Which is an example of a formal social support
network for the aging adult?
Q: a. Use yes and no questions as the foundation for
future dialogue. Use open-ended questions to help the patient
understand potential coping mechanisms CORRECT ANSWER. Try to
complete this assessment as soon as possible after meeting the
patient. Wait until a member of the clergy can be involved in
the assessment
Answer: When completing a spiritual assessment you should?
Q: a. Observe the patient's ability to perform the tasks
CORRECT ANSWER. Ask the patient's wife or husband how he or she
does when performing tasks. Review the medical record for
Assessment final exam Quiz Bank |
Questions and Answers| Latest 2026
/ 2027 | Rasmussen College
Q: Tasks that are necessary for self-care such as
eating/feeding bathing grooming toileting walking and
transferring.
Answer: Activity of Daily Living
Q: Activities that an older adult performs as a family
member or as a member of society or community including
occupational and recreational activities.
Answer: Advanced Activities of Daily Living
Q: Assessment of the health and well-being of an
individual's caregiver.
Answer: Caregiver Assessment
Q: The perceived strain by the person who cares for an
older chronically ill or disabled person.
Answer: Caregiver Burden
Q: Domains included in mental status assessments such as
attention memory orientation language visuospatial skills and
higher cognitive functions.
Answer: Domains of Cognition
Q: Assessment of an individual’s home environment and
community systems including hazards at home.
Answer: Environment
Q: The ability of a person to perform activities necessary
to live in modern society; may include driving using the
telephone or performing personal tasks such as baking or
toileting.
Answer: Functional Ability
, Q: A systematic assessment that includes assessment of an
individual's activities of daily living instrumental activities
of daily living and mobility.
Answer: Functional Assessment
Q: A person's actual performance of activities and tasks
associated with current life roles.
Answer: Functional Status
Q: Multidimensional assessment; physical examination and
assessments of mental status functional status social and
economic status pain and physical environment safety.
Answer: Geriatric Assessment
Q: Supportive services provided in the home: skilled
nursing care primary care therapy (physical occupational speech)
social work nutrition case management ADL assistance durable
medical equipment.
Answer: Home Care
Q: Functional abilities necessary for independent
community living such as shopping meal preparation housekeeping
laundry managing finances taking medications and using
transportation.
Answer: Instrumental Activities of Daily Living
Q: An instrument used to measure physical function in
older adults and the chronically ill.
Answer: Katz Index of Independence in Activities of Daily
Living
Q: An instrument used to measure an individual's ability
to perform instrumental activities of daily living; may assist
in assessing one's ability to live independently.
Answer: Lawton Instrumental Activities of Daily Living
Q: Tests that measure balance gait motor coordination and
endurance.
Answer: Physical Performance Measures
, Q: The domain that focuses on an individual's
relationships within family social groups and the community.
Answer: Social Domain
Q: Informal supports accessed by older adults such as
family members and close friends’ neighbors church societies
neighborhood groups and senior centers.
Answer: Social Networks
Q: Assessment of the individual's spiritual health.
Answer: Spiritual Assessment
Q: a. Katz. Lawton CORRECT ANSWER. Tinetti. Norbeck
Answer: An appropriate tool to assess an individual's
instrumental activities of daily living is a tool by:
Q: a. Functional status refers to one's ability to care
for another person. An older adult's functional status is
usually static over time. An older adult's functional status may
vary from independence to disability. CORRECT ANSWER. Dementia
is an example of functional status.
Answer: Which statement is true regarding an individual's
functional status?
Q: a. Alzheimer dementia. Attention deficit disorder.
Depression. Delirium CORRECT ANSWER
Answer: An older person is experiencing an acute change in
cognition. You recognize that this disorder is?
Q: a. Family relationships CORRECT ANSWER. Ability to cook
meals. Ability to balance the checkbook and pay bills. Hazards
found in the home
Answer: Assessment of the social domain includes:
Q: a. Ask open-ended questions. Complete the entire
assessment in one session. Ask the family members for
information instead of the older individual. Ask simple
questions that have yes or no answers. CORRECT ANSWER
Answer: You will use which technique when assessing an
older individual who has cognitive impairment?
, Q: a. Up and go test CORRECT ANSWER. Performance of
activities of daily living. Older American’s resources and
services multidimensional functional assessment questionnaire.
Lawton IADL Instrument
Answer: An older person needs to be assessed before going
home as to whether he or she is able to go outside alone safely.
Which test is best for this assessment?
Q: a. Experience less pain. can provide a self-report of
pain *CORRECT ANSWER8. Cannot be relied on to self-report pain.
Will not express pain sensations.
Answer: An older adult has had surgery for a fractured hip
and has a history of dementia. You should keep in mind that
older adults with cognitive impairment:
Q: a. A daughter who is taking her older father home to
live with her. An older patient who lives alone. A wife who has
cared for her husband for the past 4 years at home CORRECT
ANSWER. A son whose parents live in an assisted living facility
Answer: An appropriate use of the caregiver strain index
would be which situation?
Q: a. A neighbor who drops by with newspapers and
magazines on a regular basis. An area church that offers a
weekly activity an luncheon for seniors in the neighborhood. A
home health care agency that provides weekly blood pressure
screenings at the church luncheon CORRECT ANSWER. A senior
citizen chess club whose members hold classes at the local boys
club
Answer: Which is an example of a formal social support
network for the aging adult?
Q: a. Use yes and no questions as the foundation for
future dialogue. Use open-ended questions to help the patient
understand potential coping mechanisms CORRECT ANSWER. Try to
complete this assessment as soon as possible after meeting the
patient. Wait until a member of the clergy can be involved in
the assessment
Answer: When completing a spiritual assessment you should?
Q: a. Observe the patient's ability to perform the tasks
CORRECT ANSWER. Ask the patient's wife or husband how he or she
does when performing tasks. Review the medical record for
