NURS 3100 EXAM 1 2026/2027 | NURS 3100 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS,
STUDY GUIDE & COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW
What are the 5 phases of the nursing process? - Correct answer ✔✔ 1. Assessment
2. Diagnosis
3. Planning
4. Implementation
5. Evaluation
Assessment - Correct answer ✔✔ Collecting subjective and objective data
1st and most critical phase of nursing
Diagnosis - Correct answer ✔✔ analyzing data to make a nursing judgement
Planning - Correct answer ✔✔ determining outcome criteria and developing a plan
Implementation - Correct answer ✔✔ carrying out the plan
Evaluation - Correct answer ✔✔ assessing and revising the plan as necessary
What are the four basic types of assessments? - Correct answer ✔✔ Initial comprehensive
assessment, ongoing or partial assessment, focused or problem oriented assessment and
emergency assessment
Initial Comprehensive (complete) - Correct answer ✔✔ subjective and objective data
Ongoing (partial) - Correct answer ✔✔ mini overview as a follow-up
,Focused (problem oriented) - Correct answer ✔✔ specific concern
Emergency (rapid) - Correct answer ✔✔ immediate and prompt
How do you prepare for the health assessment? - Correct answer ✔✔ 1. Review client's records
2. Review client's status with other health care team members
3. Educate yourself about clients diagnosis and tests performed
4. Reflect on your own feelings regarding the client's information
5. Obtain and organize needed materials
What are the 4 major steps in the assessment phase? - Correct answer ✔✔ 1. Collection of
Subjective Data
2. Collection of Objective Data
3. Validation of assessment Data
4. Documentation of Data
What is COLDSPA? - Correct answer ✔✔ Character
Onset
Location
Duration
Severity
Pattern
Associated factors
Culture - Correct answer ✔✔ the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial,
religious, or social group
, What are characteristics of what makes a culture? - Correct answer ✔✔ Set of shared attitudes,
values, goals, and practices
Sterotyping - Correct answer ✔✔ a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a
particular type of person or thing
Ethnocentrism - Correct answer ✔✔ evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions
originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture
Culture broker versus interpreter - Correct answer ✔✔ Culture broken is the act of bridging,
linking, or mediating between groups or persons of different cultural backgrounds for the
purpose of reducing conflict or producing change
Interpreter is a person who interprets, especially one who translates speech oral
What is the purpose of the history and physical exam? - Correct answer ✔✔ 1. Review past
history of pain
2. Review lifestyle and health habits to determine how the pain interferes with the client's life
3. Assess physical aspects for signs of violence/abuse
What are the components of general survey? - Correct answer ✔✔ Physical characteristics,
body functions, appearance, behavior, measurements, results of laboratory testing
What should you prioritize when collecting the client database? - Correct answer ✔✔ The
assessment is the most critical phase of nursing
Subjective - Correct answer ✔✔ things the patient tells you how they feel. It comes from the
patient
STUDY GUIDE & COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW
What are the 5 phases of the nursing process? - Correct answer ✔✔ 1. Assessment
2. Diagnosis
3. Planning
4. Implementation
5. Evaluation
Assessment - Correct answer ✔✔ Collecting subjective and objective data
1st and most critical phase of nursing
Diagnosis - Correct answer ✔✔ analyzing data to make a nursing judgement
Planning - Correct answer ✔✔ determining outcome criteria and developing a plan
Implementation - Correct answer ✔✔ carrying out the plan
Evaluation - Correct answer ✔✔ assessing and revising the plan as necessary
What are the four basic types of assessments? - Correct answer ✔✔ Initial comprehensive
assessment, ongoing or partial assessment, focused or problem oriented assessment and
emergency assessment
Initial Comprehensive (complete) - Correct answer ✔✔ subjective and objective data
Ongoing (partial) - Correct answer ✔✔ mini overview as a follow-up
,Focused (problem oriented) - Correct answer ✔✔ specific concern
Emergency (rapid) - Correct answer ✔✔ immediate and prompt
How do you prepare for the health assessment? - Correct answer ✔✔ 1. Review client's records
2. Review client's status with other health care team members
3. Educate yourself about clients diagnosis and tests performed
4. Reflect on your own feelings regarding the client's information
5. Obtain and organize needed materials
What are the 4 major steps in the assessment phase? - Correct answer ✔✔ 1. Collection of
Subjective Data
2. Collection of Objective Data
3. Validation of assessment Data
4. Documentation of Data
What is COLDSPA? - Correct answer ✔✔ Character
Onset
Location
Duration
Severity
Pattern
Associated factors
Culture - Correct answer ✔✔ the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial,
religious, or social group
, What are characteristics of what makes a culture? - Correct answer ✔✔ Set of shared attitudes,
values, goals, and practices
Sterotyping - Correct answer ✔✔ a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a
particular type of person or thing
Ethnocentrism - Correct answer ✔✔ evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions
originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture
Culture broker versus interpreter - Correct answer ✔✔ Culture broken is the act of bridging,
linking, or mediating between groups or persons of different cultural backgrounds for the
purpose of reducing conflict or producing change
Interpreter is a person who interprets, especially one who translates speech oral
What is the purpose of the history and physical exam? - Correct answer ✔✔ 1. Review past
history of pain
2. Review lifestyle and health habits to determine how the pain interferes with the client's life
3. Assess physical aspects for signs of violence/abuse
What are the components of general survey? - Correct answer ✔✔ Physical characteristics,
body functions, appearance, behavior, measurements, results of laboratory testing
What should you prioritize when collecting the client database? - Correct answer ✔✔ The
assessment is the most critical phase of nursing
Subjective - Correct answer ✔✔ things the patient tells you how they feel. It comes from the
patient
