NURS 315 HEALTH ASSESSMENT EXAM 1 STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS

NURS 315 HEALTH ASSESSMENT EXAM
1 STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS 2025.

Define diagnostic reasoning - ANSWER: - scientific process in which the practitioner
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suspects the cause of a patients symptoms and signs based on previous
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knowledge
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- process of analyzing health data and drawing conclusions to identify diagnoses
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define critical thinking - ANSWER: - thinking in action as the situation changes
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first level priority problems- ABC's & V&L - ANSWER: - life threatening and
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immediate:
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NN- Airway Problems
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NN- Breathing Problems
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NN- Cardiac/ Circulation
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NN- Vital signs concerns
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NN- Lab values
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Second level priority problems: - ANSWER: - Urgent and requiring prompt
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intervention
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- mental status changes- confusion, restlessness
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- other medical problems- diabetes
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- acute pain
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- acute urinary elimination
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- abnormal lab values
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Third level priority problems - ANSWER: - important to patient health but can be
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addressed later
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- lack of knowledge
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- family coping
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Maslow's Hierarchy of needs - ANSWER: -Self- actualization
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- creativity, morality, spontaneity
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-Esteem
- confidence, achievement, self esteem, respect
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- Belonging
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- family, friends, intimacy
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-Safety
- security, employment, resources, morality
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- breathing, food, water, sex, sleep, homeostasis,
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excretion
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Evidence based practice - ANSWER: - Systematic approach to practice that
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emphasizes the use of the best evidence in combination with the clinicians
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experience
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Types of data - ANSWER: -Subjective data (interview)
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- what the patient says about him or herself
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-Objective data (physical assessment) NN NN NN



- Observed when inspecting, palpating, percussing, and auscultating patient during
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physical examination
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Health - ANSWER: A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being
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Process of communication - ANSWER: - Sending:
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- Verbal and Nonverbal Communicatio
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- Receiving:
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- Taking in by the other person
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- External Factors:
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- prepare the physical setting
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Pre-interview - ANSWER: - set the stage for a smooth interview
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Introduction - ANSWER: - greet patient, put patient at ease, establish rapport (trust)
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The working phase - ANSWER: - obtain patient information
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Termination - ANSWER: - summarize important points and discuss plan
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Open- ended questions - ANSWER: - Ask for narrative responses
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- State topic only in general terms
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- Use them:
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- to being interview
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- to interface a new section of questions
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- whenever the patient introduces new topic
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- EXAMPLES:
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- "Tell me how I can help you"
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- "What brings you to the hospital today"
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Closed- ended questions - ANSWER: - ask for specific information
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- elicit short, one or two word answers, a "yes" or "no" answer, or a forced choice
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- after opening narrative to fill in details person may have left out
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