NSG 121 UPDATED FINAL EXAMS ALL QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔what is health assessment? - ✔✔gathering information about the health status of the
patient, analyzing and synthesizing those data, making judgments about nursing
interventions based on the findings, and evaluating patient care outcomes
✔✔health assessment includes - ✔✔healthy history and physical assessment
✔✔critical thinking in nursing - ✔✔-Purposeful, outcome-directed (result-oriented)
thinking
-Is driven by patient, family, and community needs
-Is based on the nursing process, evidence-based thinking, and the scientific method
-Requires specific knowledge, skills, and experience
-New nurses must question
-Guided by professional standards and ethic codes
-Is constantly reevaluating, self-correcting, and striving to improve
✔✔health promotion - ✔✔the behavior of a person who is motivated by a personal
desire to increase well-being and health potential
, ✔✔All life-threatening problems identified during the initial assessment require the
initiation of critical interventions: - ✔✔Provide assistance with circulation
(cardiopulmonary resuscitation if needed).
Open the patient's airway.
Assist the patient's breathing.
Protect the cervical spine if the patient is injured.
Ensure that the disoriented or suicidal patient is safe.
Provide pain management and sedation.
✔✔functional assessment - ✔✔focuses on the functional patterns that all humans
share: health perception and health management, activity and exercise, nutrition and
metabolism, elimination, sleep and rest, cognition and perception, self-perception and
self-concept, roles and relationships, coping and stress tolerance, sexuality and
reproduction, and values and beliefs; used to collect subjective data and a head-to-toe
approach for the physical assessment
✔✔3 common types of nursing assessments - ✔✔emergency
comprehensive
focused
✔✔head-to-toe assessment - ✔✔most organized system for gathering comprehensive
physical data
✔✔body systems assessment - ✔✔tool for organizing data when documenting and
communicating findings; promotes critical thinking
✔✔communication - ✔✔the process of exchanging information and generating and
transmitting meanings between two or more people; interactive process that forms the
basis for building interpersonal relationship
✔✔message - ✔✔actual communication product from the source. It might be a speech,
interview, conversation, chart, gesture, memorandum, or nursing note
✔✔channel - ✔✔the medium the sender has selected to send the message
Auditory—spoken words and cues
Visual—sight, observations, and perception
Kinesthetic—touch
✔✔confirmation of the message provides - ✔✔feedback
✔✔noise - ✔✔factors that distort the quality of the message
✔✔types of communication - ✔✔verbal
nonverbal
electronic
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔what is health assessment? - ✔✔gathering information about the health status of the
patient, analyzing and synthesizing those data, making judgments about nursing
interventions based on the findings, and evaluating patient care outcomes
✔✔health assessment includes - ✔✔healthy history and physical assessment
✔✔critical thinking in nursing - ✔✔-Purposeful, outcome-directed (result-oriented)
thinking
-Is driven by patient, family, and community needs
-Is based on the nursing process, evidence-based thinking, and the scientific method
-Requires specific knowledge, skills, and experience
-New nurses must question
-Guided by professional standards and ethic codes
-Is constantly reevaluating, self-correcting, and striving to improve
✔✔health promotion - ✔✔the behavior of a person who is motivated by a personal
desire to increase well-being and health potential
, ✔✔All life-threatening problems identified during the initial assessment require the
initiation of critical interventions: - ✔✔Provide assistance with circulation
(cardiopulmonary resuscitation if needed).
Open the patient's airway.
Assist the patient's breathing.
Protect the cervical spine if the patient is injured.
Ensure that the disoriented or suicidal patient is safe.
Provide pain management and sedation.
✔✔functional assessment - ✔✔focuses on the functional patterns that all humans
share: health perception and health management, activity and exercise, nutrition and
metabolism, elimination, sleep and rest, cognition and perception, self-perception and
self-concept, roles and relationships, coping and stress tolerance, sexuality and
reproduction, and values and beliefs; used to collect subjective data and a head-to-toe
approach for the physical assessment
✔✔3 common types of nursing assessments - ✔✔emergency
comprehensive
focused
✔✔head-to-toe assessment - ✔✔most organized system for gathering comprehensive
physical data
✔✔body systems assessment - ✔✔tool for organizing data when documenting and
communicating findings; promotes critical thinking
✔✔communication - ✔✔the process of exchanging information and generating and
transmitting meanings between two or more people; interactive process that forms the
basis for building interpersonal relationship
✔✔message - ✔✔actual communication product from the source. It might be a speech,
interview, conversation, chart, gesture, memorandum, or nursing note
✔✔channel - ✔✔the medium the sender has selected to send the message
Auditory—spoken words and cues
Visual—sight, observations, and perception
Kinesthetic—touch
✔✔confirmation of the message provides - ✔✔feedback
✔✔noise - ✔✔factors that distort the quality of the message
✔✔types of communication - ✔✔verbal
nonverbal
electronic
