NSG 200 HEALTH PROMOTION AND ASSESSMENT 2026/2027 | STUDY GUIDE,
PRACTICE QUESTIONS, ANSWERS & EXAM REVIEW
Examples of focused or closed ended questions - ANS ✔✔What brings you here today?
Have you been thinking about suicide?
How much alcohol have you been drinking?
How well have you been sleeping?
How many meals a day do you eat?
What over-the-counter medications are you taking?
Communicating during the assessment - ANS ✔✔When beginning an assessment of a client, the nurse
must address the client's feelings and perceptions to establish a trusting working relationship before
proceeding with the assessment. The priority is to create an environment in which the client feels safe
and can trust caregivers. Asking questions that allow the client to open up to the caregiver helps to
establish that relationship.
CONTENT OF THE ASSESSMENT - ANS ✔✔•History
•General appearance and motor behavior
•Mood and affect
•Thought process and content
•Sensorium and intellectual processes
•Judgment and insight
•Self-concept
•Roles and relationships
•Physiologic and self-care concerns
Psychosocial Assessment Components - ANS ✔✔History
•Age
•Developmental stage
•Cultural considerations
•Spiritual beliefs
•Previous history
General Assessment and Motor Behavior
•Hygiene and grooming
•Appropriate dress
•Posture
•Eye contact
•Unusual movements or mannerisms
•Speech
Mood and Affect
•Expressed emotions
•Facial expressions
Thought Process and Content
•Content (what client is thinking)
•Process (how client is thinking)
•Clarity of ideas
, •Self-harm or suicide urges
Sensorium and Intellectual Processes
•Orientation
•Confusion
•Memory
Abnormal Sensory Experiences or Misperceptions
•Concentration
•Abstract thinking abilities
Judgment and Insight
•Judgment (interpretation of environment)
•Decision-making ability
•Insight (understanding one's own part in current situation)
Self-Concept
•Personal view of self
•Description of physical self
•Personal qualities or attributes
Roles and Relationships
•Current roles
•Satisfaction with roles
•Success at roles
•Significant relationships
•Support systems
Physiologic and Self-Care Considerations
•Eating habits
•Sleep patterns
•Health problems
•Compliance with prescribed medications
•Ability to perform the activities of daily living
Automatisms - ANS ✔✔repeated purposeless behaviors often indicative of anxiety, such as drumming
fingers, twisting locks of hair, or tapping the foot
Psychomotor retardation - ANS ✔✔overall slowed movements
Waxy flexibility - ANS ✔✔maintenance of posture or position over time even when it is awkward or
uncomfortable
Mood - ANS ✔✔refers to the client's pervasive and enduring emotional state.
Affect - ANS ✔✔is the outward expression of the client's emotional state.
Blunted affect - ANS ✔✔showing little or a slow-to-respond facial expression
Broad affect - ANS ✔✔displaying a full range of emotional expressions
Flat affect - ANS ✔✔showing no facial expression
PRACTICE QUESTIONS, ANSWERS & EXAM REVIEW
Examples of focused or closed ended questions - ANS ✔✔What brings you here today?
Have you been thinking about suicide?
How much alcohol have you been drinking?
How well have you been sleeping?
How many meals a day do you eat?
What over-the-counter medications are you taking?
Communicating during the assessment - ANS ✔✔When beginning an assessment of a client, the nurse
must address the client's feelings and perceptions to establish a trusting working relationship before
proceeding with the assessment. The priority is to create an environment in which the client feels safe
and can trust caregivers. Asking questions that allow the client to open up to the caregiver helps to
establish that relationship.
CONTENT OF THE ASSESSMENT - ANS ✔✔•History
•General appearance and motor behavior
•Mood and affect
•Thought process and content
•Sensorium and intellectual processes
•Judgment and insight
•Self-concept
•Roles and relationships
•Physiologic and self-care concerns
Psychosocial Assessment Components - ANS ✔✔History
•Age
•Developmental stage
•Cultural considerations
•Spiritual beliefs
•Previous history
General Assessment and Motor Behavior
•Hygiene and grooming
•Appropriate dress
•Posture
•Eye contact
•Unusual movements or mannerisms
•Speech
Mood and Affect
•Expressed emotions
•Facial expressions
Thought Process and Content
•Content (what client is thinking)
•Process (how client is thinking)
•Clarity of ideas
, •Self-harm or suicide urges
Sensorium and Intellectual Processes
•Orientation
•Confusion
•Memory
Abnormal Sensory Experiences or Misperceptions
•Concentration
•Abstract thinking abilities
Judgment and Insight
•Judgment (interpretation of environment)
•Decision-making ability
•Insight (understanding one's own part in current situation)
Self-Concept
•Personal view of self
•Description of physical self
•Personal qualities or attributes
Roles and Relationships
•Current roles
•Satisfaction with roles
•Success at roles
•Significant relationships
•Support systems
Physiologic and Self-Care Considerations
•Eating habits
•Sleep patterns
•Health problems
•Compliance with prescribed medications
•Ability to perform the activities of daily living
Automatisms - ANS ✔✔repeated purposeless behaviors often indicative of anxiety, such as drumming
fingers, twisting locks of hair, or tapping the foot
Psychomotor retardation - ANS ✔✔overall slowed movements
Waxy flexibility - ANS ✔✔maintenance of posture or position over time even when it is awkward or
uncomfortable
Mood - ANS ✔✔refers to the client's pervasive and enduring emotional state.
Affect - ANS ✔✔is the outward expression of the client's emotional state.
Blunted affect - ANS ✔✔showing little or a slow-to-respond facial expression
Broad affect - ANS ✔✔displaying a full range of emotional expressions
Flat affect - ANS ✔✔showing no facial expression
