NURS 502 EXAM 1| QUESTIONS & CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS 2025 UPDATE
1. Health care disparities ANS >> Defined as when a health outcome is seen to a
greater or lesser extent between populations or groups
2. Cultural competence ANS >> Is how health care providers consider and
understand how social and cultural factors affect individuals' health and attitudes
toward illness and disability
3. Nurs acronym ANS
>> Name Understand
Respect
Support
4. cultural humility ANS >> involves self reflection and self critique to develop a
partnership with patients
5. Illness ANS >> is the full expression of the impact of disease on the
patient and is influenced by the patients experience
6. Disease ANS >> A disorder that produces specific signs or symptoms
7. Mneumonic to gain cultural competence ANS >> L- isten to patients
perception of problem
E-xplain clinicals perception
A-cknowledge similarities and differences
R-ecommendions must involve patient
N-egotiate a treatment plan
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, 8. Nmemonic ethnic ANS >> E- explanation of
problem T-treatment , what have they tried
H-healers, what advice sought?
N- negotiate
Intervention
Collaboration
9. Differentiate between conscious vs unconscious bias ANS >> Conscious
- explicit Unconscious - implicit , unintentional
10. Patient-centered care ANS >> Respecting and responding to the patients'
wants, needs and preferences, and facilitating their choices in their care that best
fits their individual circumstances
11. Goal of therapeutic relationships with a patient ANS >> To see the
world as the patient sees it
explore patient expectations, display genuine interest and curiosity and prepare to
engage in a partnership
12. Effective communication ANS >> built on courtesy, comfort, connection and
confirma- tion
13. strategies for effective communication ANS >> ask open ended
question practice active listening
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, use clear language
negotiate an agenda
acknowledge patients feelings
14. What is the acryonym NURS used for? ANS >> empathy skills and effective
commu- nicatoin
15. Comprehensive health history ANS >> includes all elements of health history
16. Focused health history ANS >> Problem oriented or
episodic based on chief concern
17. History of present illness (HPI) ANS >> Is the patients story of what
prompted him or her to seek care
determines overall health before chief concern
What have they not been able to do because of this problem?
OLD CARTS
18. Comprehensive health history ANS >> 1.
Identifying data CC (chief concern)
HPI (history present illness)
PMH (past medical history)
FH (family history)
PH (Personal and social history)
ROS (Review of systems)
19. identify data ANS >>
identifiers source of history
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ANSWERS 2025 UPDATE
1. Health care disparities ANS >> Defined as when a health outcome is seen to a
greater or lesser extent between populations or groups
2. Cultural competence ANS >> Is how health care providers consider and
understand how social and cultural factors affect individuals' health and attitudes
toward illness and disability
3. Nurs acronym ANS
>> Name Understand
Respect
Support
4. cultural humility ANS >> involves self reflection and self critique to develop a
partnership with patients
5. Illness ANS >> is the full expression of the impact of disease on the
patient and is influenced by the patients experience
6. Disease ANS >> A disorder that produces specific signs or symptoms
7. Mneumonic to gain cultural competence ANS >> L- isten to patients
perception of problem
E-xplain clinicals perception
A-cknowledge similarities and differences
R-ecommendions must involve patient
N-egotiate a treatment plan
https://www.stuvia.com/user/Mboffin
, 8. Nmemonic ethnic ANS >> E- explanation of
problem T-treatment , what have they tried
H-healers, what advice sought?
N- negotiate
Intervention
Collaboration
9. Differentiate between conscious vs unconscious bias ANS >> Conscious
- explicit Unconscious - implicit , unintentional
10. Patient-centered care ANS >> Respecting and responding to the patients'
wants, needs and preferences, and facilitating their choices in their care that best
fits their individual circumstances
11. Goal of therapeutic relationships with a patient ANS >> To see the
world as the patient sees it
explore patient expectations, display genuine interest and curiosity and prepare to
engage in a partnership
12. Effective communication ANS >> built on courtesy, comfort, connection and
confirma- tion
13. strategies for effective communication ANS >> ask open ended
question practice active listening
https://www.stuvia.com/user/Mboffin
, use clear language
negotiate an agenda
acknowledge patients feelings
14. What is the acryonym NURS used for? ANS >> empathy skills and effective
commu- nicatoin
15. Comprehensive health history ANS >> includes all elements of health history
16. Focused health history ANS >> Problem oriented or
episodic based on chief concern
17. History of present illness (HPI) ANS >> Is the patients story of what
prompted him or her to seek care
determines overall health before chief concern
What have they not been able to do because of this problem?
OLD CARTS
18. Comprehensive health history ANS >> 1.
Identifying data CC (chief concern)
HPI (history present illness)
PMH (past medical history)
FH (family history)
PH (Personal and social history)
ROS (Review of systems)
19. identify data ANS >>
identifiers source of history
https://www.stuvia.com/user/Mboffin
