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NURS1543 Test 1 Exam Questions With
Correct Answers 100% Verified.
Subjective Data - Answer✔what the person says about himself or herself during history taking
Objective Data - Answer✔what the health professional observes by inspecting, palpating,
percussing, and auscultating during the physical examination
Database - Answer✔Subjective data + Objective data + record + lab results + diagnostic tests
Diagnostic Reasoning - Answer✔process of analyzing health data and drawing conclusions.
Made up of 4 parts: (a) attending to initially available cues; (b) formulating diagnostic
hypotheses; (c) gathering data relative to the tentative hypotheses; and (d) evaluating each
hypothesis with the new data collected
Nursing Process - Answer✔Systematic method of planning and providing patient care organized
around a series of phrases that integrate evidence-informed practice and critical thinking.
5 phases of the nursing process - Answer✔1. Assessment
2. Nursing Diagnosis
3. Planning
4. Implementation
5. Evaluation
First-level priority problems - Answer✔emergent, life-threatening, and immediate, such as
establishing an airway or supporting breathing
Second-level priority problems - Answer✔those that are next in urgency requiring your prompt
intervention to forestall further deterioration. (mental status change, acute pain, acute urinary
elimination problem, untreated medical problems, abnormal lab test results)
Third-level priority problems - Answer✔those that are important to the patient's health but can
be addressed after more urgent health problems are addressed. (Knowledge deficit, altered
family processes, and low self esteem)
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Collaborative problems - Answer✔approach to treatment involves multiple disciplines
Evidence-informed practice - Answer✔a paradigm and life-long problem solving approach to
clinical decision-making that involves the conscientious use of the best available evidence
(including a systematic search for and critical appraisal of the most relevant evidence to answer
a clinical question) with one's own clinical expertise and patient values and preferences to
improve outcomes for individuals, groups, communities, and systems
Biomedical model of health - Answer✔Predominant model of the Canadian health care system,
health is the absence of disease.
Health and disease are viewed as two ends of a continuum. Disease is assumed to be caused by
specific agents or pathogens. Thus the biomedical focus is the diagnosis and treatment of those
pathogens and the curing of disease.
Behavioural Model of Health - Answer✔health care extends beyond treating disease to include
secondary and primary preventions, with emphasis on changing behaviours and lifestyles
Socioenvironmental Model of Health - Answer✔incorporates sociological and environmental
aspects in addition to the biomedical and behavioural ones.
Relational Approach in Nursing Practice - Answer✔accounts for the fact that health, illness, and
the meanings they hold for a person are shaped by the person's social, cultural, family,
historical, and geographical contexts, as well as the person's gender, age, ability, and other
individual contexts. Focuses nurses' attention on what is significant to people in the context of
their everyday lives and how capacities and socioenvironmental limitations shape people's
choices.
Complete (Total Health) Database - Answer✔Includes complete health history and full physical
examination
Describes current and past health state and forms baseline to measure all future changes
Yields first diagnoses
episodic/problem centered database - Answer✔limited, or short term problem
- collect a "mini" database, smaller in scope and more targeted.
Follow-up database - Answer✔used in all settings to monitor progress of short-term or chronic
health problems. Evaluated the status of identified problems
Emergency database - Answer✔rapid collection of the database, often compiled concurrently
with lifesaving measures
Periodic Health Examinations - Answer✔Designed to prevent morbidity and mortality but
identifying modifiable risk factors and early signs of treatable conditions
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primary prevention - Answer✔People and populations are prevented from becoming ill, sick, or
injured in the first place
secondary prevention - Answer✔early detection and treatment of disease
tertiary prevention - Answer✔prevention of complications from an existing disease and
promoting health to the highest level
Health Promotion - Answer✔"the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to
improve their health. It moves beyond a focus on individual behaviour towards a wide range of
social and environmental interventions." (WHO)
Disparities in health vs. Health Inequities - Answer✔Disparities in Health occur when the
combination and interaction of the SDoH result in differences in health status between
segments of the population.
When disparities are avoidable but outside the control of individuals, health inequities result.
Population Health Promotion Model - Answer✔Multifaceted appraoch to considering the SDoH
in our nursing health assessment.
Culture - Answer✔No single definition exists. In anthropology, culture is understood as an
inherently complex dimension of people's lives
Ethnicity - Answer✔complex concept that can encompass multiple different aspects such as
one's country of origin or ancestry, identity, and family history, languages spoken, and, in some
cases, religious identity
ethnic group - Answer✔a population or group who identify with each other based on a shared
heritage, culture, language, or religious affiliation
visible minority - Answer✔defined by Statistics Canada as "persons, other than Aboriginal
peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour," and as consisting "mainly of
the following groups: Chinese, South Asian, Black, Arab, West Asian, Filipino, Southeast Asian,
Latin American, Japanese, and Korean."
Racialization - Answer✔process of attributing social, economic, or presumed cultural
differences to "race." Racialization may be conscious and deliberate (an act of racism in which
discrimination is overt) or unconscious and unintended. Racism is founded on the view that
there are supposedly biologically real divisions that involve "a hierarchy of value."
Discrimination - Answer✔systemic inequitable treatment of individuals or groups based on
stratified classifications
Cultural Sensitivity - Answer✔reflects the idea that people have culturally based
understandings, practices, and customs, and that health care providers should be aware of and
accommodate those understandings. Being culturally sensitive can be useful if it is done in a
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NURS1543 Test 1 Exam Questions With
Correct Answers 100% Verified.
Subjective Data - Answer✔what the person says about himself or herself during history taking
Objective Data - Answer✔what the health professional observes by inspecting, palpating,
percussing, and auscultating during the physical examination
Database - Answer✔Subjective data + Objective data + record + lab results + diagnostic tests
Diagnostic Reasoning - Answer✔process of analyzing health data and drawing conclusions.
Made up of 4 parts: (a) attending to initially available cues; (b) formulating diagnostic
hypotheses; (c) gathering data relative to the tentative hypotheses; and (d) evaluating each
hypothesis with the new data collected
Nursing Process - Answer✔Systematic method of planning and providing patient care organized
around a series of phrases that integrate evidence-informed practice and critical thinking.
5 phases of the nursing process - Answer✔1. Assessment
2. Nursing Diagnosis
3. Planning
4. Implementation
5. Evaluation
First-level priority problems - Answer✔emergent, life-threatening, and immediate, such as
establishing an airway or supporting breathing
Second-level priority problems - Answer✔those that are next in urgency requiring your prompt
intervention to forestall further deterioration. (mental status change, acute pain, acute urinary
elimination problem, untreated medical problems, abnormal lab test results)
Third-level priority problems - Answer✔those that are important to the patient's health but can
be addressed after more urgent health problems are addressed. (Knowledge deficit, altered
family processes, and low self esteem)
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Collaborative problems - Answer✔approach to treatment involves multiple disciplines
Evidence-informed practice - Answer✔a paradigm and life-long problem solving approach to
clinical decision-making that involves the conscientious use of the best available evidence
(including a systematic search for and critical appraisal of the most relevant evidence to answer
a clinical question) with one's own clinical expertise and patient values and preferences to
improve outcomes for individuals, groups, communities, and systems
Biomedical model of health - Answer✔Predominant model of the Canadian health care system,
health is the absence of disease.
Health and disease are viewed as two ends of a continuum. Disease is assumed to be caused by
specific agents or pathogens. Thus the biomedical focus is the diagnosis and treatment of those
pathogens and the curing of disease.
Behavioural Model of Health - Answer✔health care extends beyond treating disease to include
secondary and primary preventions, with emphasis on changing behaviours and lifestyles
Socioenvironmental Model of Health - Answer✔incorporates sociological and environmental
aspects in addition to the biomedical and behavioural ones.
Relational Approach in Nursing Practice - Answer✔accounts for the fact that health, illness, and
the meanings they hold for a person are shaped by the person's social, cultural, family,
historical, and geographical contexts, as well as the person's gender, age, ability, and other
individual contexts. Focuses nurses' attention on what is significant to people in the context of
their everyday lives and how capacities and socioenvironmental limitations shape people's
choices.
Complete (Total Health) Database - Answer✔Includes complete health history and full physical
examination
Describes current and past health state and forms baseline to measure all future changes
Yields first diagnoses
episodic/problem centered database - Answer✔limited, or short term problem
- collect a "mini" database, smaller in scope and more targeted.
Follow-up database - Answer✔used in all settings to monitor progress of short-term or chronic
health problems. Evaluated the status of identified problems
Emergency database - Answer✔rapid collection of the database, often compiled concurrently
with lifesaving measures
Periodic Health Examinations - Answer✔Designed to prevent morbidity and mortality but
identifying modifiable risk factors and early signs of treatable conditions
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primary prevention - Answer✔People and populations are prevented from becoming ill, sick, or
injured in the first place
secondary prevention - Answer✔early detection and treatment of disease
tertiary prevention - Answer✔prevention of complications from an existing disease and
promoting health to the highest level
Health Promotion - Answer✔"the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to
improve their health. It moves beyond a focus on individual behaviour towards a wide range of
social and environmental interventions." (WHO)
Disparities in health vs. Health Inequities - Answer✔Disparities in Health occur when the
combination and interaction of the SDoH result in differences in health status between
segments of the population.
When disparities are avoidable but outside the control of individuals, health inequities result.
Population Health Promotion Model - Answer✔Multifaceted appraoch to considering the SDoH
in our nursing health assessment.
Culture - Answer✔No single definition exists. In anthropology, culture is understood as an
inherently complex dimension of people's lives
Ethnicity - Answer✔complex concept that can encompass multiple different aspects such as
one's country of origin or ancestry, identity, and family history, languages spoken, and, in some
cases, religious identity
ethnic group - Answer✔a population or group who identify with each other based on a shared
heritage, culture, language, or religious affiliation
visible minority - Answer✔defined by Statistics Canada as "persons, other than Aboriginal
peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour," and as consisting "mainly of
the following groups: Chinese, South Asian, Black, Arab, West Asian, Filipino, Southeast Asian,
Latin American, Japanese, and Korean."
Racialization - Answer✔process of attributing social, economic, or presumed cultural
differences to "race." Racialization may be conscious and deliberate (an act of racism in which
discrimination is overt) or unconscious and unintended. Racism is founded on the view that
there are supposedly biologically real divisions that involve "a hierarchy of value."
Discrimination - Answer✔systemic inequitable treatment of individuals or groups based on
stratified classifications
Cultural Sensitivity - Answer✔reflects the idea that people have culturally based
understandings, practices, and customs, and that health care providers should be aware of and
accommodate those understandings. Being culturally sensitive can be useful if it is done in a
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