NURS 500 EXAM 1 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 100% PASS
NP Steps to Assessing a Patient (4) - ANS History
Physical
Impression
Plan
History - ANS The subjective information
Patient's report or "story", guided by your questions
May also include hospital/outpatient records
Physical - ANS Examination, labs, diagnostics, etc.
Nothing that you can't see, feel, hear, or touch belongs here
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, NO DIAGNOSIS
A physical exam of every body system covered in the other 3 categories
Impression - ANS What do you think of the patient- what's going on?
Can be a simple status of a known problem or extensive thought about differential diagnoses
Ex. The patient's chest pain is most consistent with GERD, with differential diagnoses including
XYZ
Plan - ANS Includes both what you did today and/or what you will do
For each and every problem
4 Components of the Plan - ANS Diagnostics
Therapeutics
Education
Follow-Up
Health History - ANS The patient's story of past and present events which affect or may
affect his/her present or future health status
Purposes of the Health History (2) - ANS Data acquisition
2 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026.
AND ANSWERS 100% PASS
NP Steps to Assessing a Patient (4) - ANS History
Physical
Impression
Plan
History - ANS The subjective information
Patient's report or "story", guided by your questions
May also include hospital/outpatient records
Physical - ANS Examination, labs, diagnostics, etc.
Nothing that you can't see, feel, hear, or touch belongs here
1 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026.
, NO DIAGNOSIS
A physical exam of every body system covered in the other 3 categories
Impression - ANS What do you think of the patient- what's going on?
Can be a simple status of a known problem or extensive thought about differential diagnoses
Ex. The patient's chest pain is most consistent with GERD, with differential diagnoses including
XYZ
Plan - ANS Includes both what you did today and/or what you will do
For each and every problem
4 Components of the Plan - ANS Diagnostics
Therapeutics
Education
Follow-Up
Health History - ANS The patient's story of past and present events which affect or may
affect his/her present or future health status
Purposes of the Health History (2) - ANS Data acquisition
2 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026.
