NSG 316 EXAM 1 UPDATED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Question:
1. What is a general survey?
Answer:
a study of the whole person, cov-ering the general health state and any obvious physical
characteristics
Question:
2. What is included in a general survey?
Answer:
physical appearance, body struc-ture, mobility, and behavior
Question:
3. What is ADOPIE?
Answer:
Assessment Diagnosis Outcome/ Identification Planning Implementation Evaluation
Question:
4. What is a comprehensive assessment (Complete Total Health Assessment)?
Answer:
a complete health history and a full physical examination where they describe current and past health
states and form a baseline to mea-sure all future changes (ex. home healthcare setting)
Question:
5. What is a Focused Based Assessment (Episodic/ Problem-centered)?
Answer:
a limited or short-term problem concerned with one problem, one cue (ex. urgent care)
Question:
6. What is a Follow-Up Database?
Answer:
evaluating the status of all iden-tified problems and noting if changes have occurred (ex. prima-ry
care physician appointment)
Question:
7. What is an Emergency Database?
Answer:
RAPID collection of data, often compiled with lifesaving measure (ex. emergency room)
Question:
8. How do you know the source of information given is reliable?
Answer:
they will give the same answer even when the question is rephrased or repeated 3 times with the same
an-swer
,Question:
9. How do you know if the patient is actually ill just by how they communicate?
Answer:
a sick patient will communicate poorly
Question:
10. What is PQRST
Answer:
Provocative/ Palliative Quality/ Quantity Region/ Radiation Severity Scale 1-10 Timing/ Onset
Question:
11. What is a good way to depict gender, relation-ships, and age of immediate blood relatives in at
least three generations such as parents, grand-parents, and siblings?
Answer:
GENOGRAM (family tree)
- identifies increased disease or ill-
ness they might be prone to
Question:
12. What affects health promotion and disease pre-vention throughout the life span?
Answer:
Age Smoking/ Drinking Weight Genetics
Question:
13. What are ADL's?
Answer:
Bathing, dressing, eating, transfer-ring, walking, and toileting
Question:
14. What are IADL's?
Answer:
independent living situations like housekeeping, shopping, cooking, doing laundry, using the
tele-phone, managing finances
Question:
15. What are AADL's?
Answer:
their social relationships and re-sources such as nutrition, self-con-cept and coping, as well as their
home environment
Question:
16. What is the Katz Index of Independence in ADL?
Answer:
the concept of physical disability and measures physical function in older adults and the chronically
ill
, Question:
17. What is the Lawton Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL's)?
Answer:
measures functional abilities nec-essary for independent community living
Question:
18. What are examples of AADL's
Answer:
occupational and recreational ac-tivities such as occupational ther-apists, the Up-and-Go Test,
phys-ical performance test, and perfor-mance activities of daily living
Question:
19. How does the Health History Sequence go?
Answer:
Biographical Data Source of History Reason for Seeking Care Present Health or History of present
illness Past Health Family History Review of Systems (ROS) Functional Assessment (IADL's)
Question:
20. What is a pneumonic to remember the Health History Sequence?
Answer:
Bill Sat Right Past Pete For Raw Fish
Question:
21. Biographical Data
Answer:
Patients.. Name Address/Phone Number Age/Birthdate Birthplace Sex Marital Status Race Ethnic
Origin Occupation
Question:
22. Describe Symptom:
Answer:
subjective sensations the person feels from a disorder
Question:
23. Describe Sign:
Answer:
objective abnormality that can be detected on physical examination or in lab reports
Question:
24. Which of the following is a good example of a well-written chief complaint?
A.Patient complaining of chest pain for about 3 days that is worse with activity and relieved with rest.
B.Pain is a 10/10 C.Patient complaining of chest pain. R/O MI D.Patient states "I don't know what
this pain is.
This is the worst I have ever felt"
Answer:
A
ANSWERS
Question:
1. What is a general survey?
Answer:
a study of the whole person, cov-ering the general health state and any obvious physical
characteristics
Question:
2. What is included in a general survey?
Answer:
physical appearance, body struc-ture, mobility, and behavior
Question:
3. What is ADOPIE?
Answer:
Assessment Diagnosis Outcome/ Identification Planning Implementation Evaluation
Question:
4. What is a comprehensive assessment (Complete Total Health Assessment)?
Answer:
a complete health history and a full physical examination where they describe current and past health
states and form a baseline to mea-sure all future changes (ex. home healthcare setting)
Question:
5. What is a Focused Based Assessment (Episodic/ Problem-centered)?
Answer:
a limited or short-term problem concerned with one problem, one cue (ex. urgent care)
Question:
6. What is a Follow-Up Database?
Answer:
evaluating the status of all iden-tified problems and noting if changes have occurred (ex. prima-ry
care physician appointment)
Question:
7. What is an Emergency Database?
Answer:
RAPID collection of data, often compiled with lifesaving measure (ex. emergency room)
Question:
8. How do you know the source of information given is reliable?
Answer:
they will give the same answer even when the question is rephrased or repeated 3 times with the same
an-swer
,Question:
9. How do you know if the patient is actually ill just by how they communicate?
Answer:
a sick patient will communicate poorly
Question:
10. What is PQRST
Answer:
Provocative/ Palliative Quality/ Quantity Region/ Radiation Severity Scale 1-10 Timing/ Onset
Question:
11. What is a good way to depict gender, relation-ships, and age of immediate blood relatives in at
least three generations such as parents, grand-parents, and siblings?
Answer:
GENOGRAM (family tree)
- identifies increased disease or ill-
ness they might be prone to
Question:
12. What affects health promotion and disease pre-vention throughout the life span?
Answer:
Age Smoking/ Drinking Weight Genetics
Question:
13. What are ADL's?
Answer:
Bathing, dressing, eating, transfer-ring, walking, and toileting
Question:
14. What are IADL's?
Answer:
independent living situations like housekeeping, shopping, cooking, doing laundry, using the
tele-phone, managing finances
Question:
15. What are AADL's?
Answer:
their social relationships and re-sources such as nutrition, self-con-cept and coping, as well as their
home environment
Question:
16. What is the Katz Index of Independence in ADL?
Answer:
the concept of physical disability and measures physical function in older adults and the chronically
ill
, Question:
17. What is the Lawton Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL's)?
Answer:
measures functional abilities nec-essary for independent community living
Question:
18. What are examples of AADL's
Answer:
occupational and recreational ac-tivities such as occupational ther-apists, the Up-and-Go Test,
phys-ical performance test, and perfor-mance activities of daily living
Question:
19. How does the Health History Sequence go?
Answer:
Biographical Data Source of History Reason for Seeking Care Present Health or History of present
illness Past Health Family History Review of Systems (ROS) Functional Assessment (IADL's)
Question:
20. What is a pneumonic to remember the Health History Sequence?
Answer:
Bill Sat Right Past Pete For Raw Fish
Question:
21. Biographical Data
Answer:
Patients.. Name Address/Phone Number Age/Birthdate Birthplace Sex Marital Status Race Ethnic
Origin Occupation
Question:
22. Describe Symptom:
Answer:
subjective sensations the person feels from a disorder
Question:
23. Describe Sign:
Answer:
objective abnormality that can be detected on physical examination or in lab reports
Question:
24. Which of the following is a good example of a well-written chief complaint?
A.Patient complaining of chest pain for about 3 days that is worse with activity and relieved with rest.
B.Pain is a 10/10 C.Patient complaining of chest pain. R/O MI D.Patient states "I don't know what
this pain is.
This is the worst I have ever felt"
Answer:
A
