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Health Assessment Final Nursing, NUR2092 Health Assessment
Final Exam Questions and Answers (100% Pass)
The nurse is preparing to conduct a health history. Explain this to the
patient. - Answer✔️✔️-Answer- The purpose of a health history is to
provide a database of subjective information about the patient's past and
current health history. You might say to the patient, "I will be asking you
questions about your past and present health." This information will help
the provider along with the physical exam (objective data) to develop a
diagnosis or health status.
The nurse is evaluating the reliability of a patient's responses, which of
these statements would be correct? The patient: - Answer✔️✔️-Provided
consistent information and therefore is reliable
A patient tells the nurse that she has had abdominal pain for the past
week. What would be the nurse's best response? - Answer✔️✔️-"Can you
point to where it hurts?"
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A 29-year-old woman tells the nurse that she has "excruciating pain" in
her back. Which would be the nurse's appropriate response to the
woman's statement? - Answer✔️✔️-"How would you say the pain affects
your ability to do your daily activities?"
A patient tells the nurse that he is allergic to penicillin. What would be
the nurse's best response to this information? - Answer✔️✔️-"Describe
what happens (or the reaction) to you when you take Penicillin."
The nurse is taking a family history. Important diseases or problems
about which the patient should be specifically asked include: -
Answer✔️✔️-Mental illness.
The review of systems provides the nurse with... - Answer✔️✔️-
Information regarding health promotion practices, the information helps
to evaluate the past and present health state of each body system, to
obtain any data that may have been omitted in the section about present
illness, and to evaluate health promotion and teaching opportunities.
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Which of these statements represents subjective data the nurse obtained
from the patient regarding the patient's skin? - Answer✔️✔️-Patient denies
any color change.
The nurse is obtaining a history from a 30-year old male patient and is
concerned about health promotion activities. Which of these questions
would be appropriate to use to assess health promotion activities for this
patient? - Answer✔️✔️-"Do you perform testicular self-examinations?"
Functional Assessment-- What information would you ask if the patient's
leg was in a cast? - Answer✔️✔️-A functional assessment includes the
activities of daily living and the person's ability to take care of their
needs. This area will help to formulate a nursing diagnosis. This could
be present to the patient in a standardized form and will include data on
the lifestyle and type of living environment. (Page 57) self-esteem,
activity/exercise, sleep/rest, nutrition/elimination, interpersonal
relationships/resources, spiritual resources, coping and stress
management, personal habits, environmental hazards, violence
questions, and occupational health questions. If a patient had a cast on
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their leg, appropriate questions would include how they transfer to bed,
another chair, bathing technique, coping with the situation, support
during the situation.
Regarding the use of alcohol, a patient asks the nurse why the nurse
needs to know. What is the reason why? - Answer✔️✔️-Alcohol can
interact with all medications and make some diseases worse.
Describe a genogram. - Answer✔️✔️-Graphic family tree that uses
symbols to depict the gender, relationship, and age of immediate family.
Usually 3 generations- parents, grandparents, siblings. Also highlight the
health of close family members and more details such as communicable
disease, environmental hazards (smoke), tobacco use, and alcohol use.
Any additional information includes the family history.
The nurse is obtaining health history on an 87-year-old woman. Which
of the following areas of questioning would be most useful at this time?
- Answer✔️✔️-Current health promotion activities.
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Health Assessment Final Nursing, NUR2092 Health Assessment
Final Exam Questions and Answers (100% Pass)
The nurse is preparing to conduct a health history. Explain this to the
patient. - Answer✔️✔️-Answer- The purpose of a health history is to
provide a database of subjective information about the patient's past and
current health history. You might say to the patient, "I will be asking you
questions about your past and present health." This information will help
the provider along with the physical exam (objective data) to develop a
diagnosis or health status.
The nurse is evaluating the reliability of a patient's responses, which of
these statements would be correct? The patient: - Answer✔️✔️-Provided
consistent information and therefore is reliable
A patient tells the nurse that she has had abdominal pain for the past
week. What would be the nurse's best response? - Answer✔️✔️-"Can you
point to where it hurts?"
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,©SOPHIA_BENNETT 2024/2025 Saturday_ August 17_ 2024 1_35 PM
A 29-year-old woman tells the nurse that she has "excruciating pain" in
her back. Which would be the nurse's appropriate response to the
woman's statement? - Answer✔️✔️-"How would you say the pain affects
your ability to do your daily activities?"
A patient tells the nurse that he is allergic to penicillin. What would be
the nurse's best response to this information? - Answer✔️✔️-"Describe
what happens (or the reaction) to you when you take Penicillin."
The nurse is taking a family history. Important diseases or problems
about which the patient should be specifically asked include: -
Answer✔️✔️-Mental illness.
The review of systems provides the nurse with... - Answer✔️✔️-
Information regarding health promotion practices, the information helps
to evaluate the past and present health state of each body system, to
obtain any data that may have been omitted in the section about present
illness, and to evaluate health promotion and teaching opportunities.
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Which of these statements represents subjective data the nurse obtained
from the patient regarding the patient's skin? - Answer✔️✔️-Patient denies
any color change.
The nurse is obtaining a history from a 30-year old male patient and is
concerned about health promotion activities. Which of these questions
would be appropriate to use to assess health promotion activities for this
patient? - Answer✔️✔️-"Do you perform testicular self-examinations?"
Functional Assessment-- What information would you ask if the patient's
leg was in a cast? - Answer✔️✔️-A functional assessment includes the
activities of daily living and the person's ability to take care of their
needs. This area will help to formulate a nursing diagnosis. This could
be present to the patient in a standardized form and will include data on
the lifestyle and type of living environment. (Page 57) self-esteem,
activity/exercise, sleep/rest, nutrition/elimination, interpersonal
relationships/resources, spiritual resources, coping and stress
management, personal habits, environmental hazards, violence
questions, and occupational health questions. If a patient had a cast on
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their leg, appropriate questions would include how they transfer to bed,
another chair, bathing technique, coping with the situation, support
during the situation.
Regarding the use of alcohol, a patient asks the nurse why the nurse
needs to know. What is the reason why? - Answer✔️✔️-Alcohol can
interact with all medications and make some diseases worse.
Describe a genogram. - Answer✔️✔️-Graphic family tree that uses
symbols to depict the gender, relationship, and age of immediate family.
Usually 3 generations- parents, grandparents, siblings. Also highlight the
health of close family members and more details such as communicable
disease, environmental hazards (smoke), tobacco use, and alcohol use.
Any additional information includes the family history.
The nurse is obtaining health history on an 87-year-old woman. Which
of the following areas of questioning would be most useful at this time?
- Answer✔️✔️-Current health promotion activities.
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