NUR-265 Final Exam Study Guide Questions
and Answers with Complete Solutions | Fall
2025-2026
Subjective data - ANSWERS What patient tells you
EX: patient with sore throat and ear pain
Objective data - ANSWERS what you as healthcare worker observe (smelling,
observing, feeling) *It is measurable
EX: Phyrynx is pink and moist
Primary source - ANSWERS the patient is the primary source
EX: Respiratory rate of 22 per min, reports pain of 3/10
Secondary source - ANSWERS family, staff, or witness is the source
EX: nurse says patient has a limp
General survey - ANSWERS overall impression/ assessment that's continuing
throughout the exam (look for red flags)
Complete database assessment - ANSWERS Baseline health database
Focused database assessment - ANSWERS Limited or short term problem,
targeted, one problem
,EX:rash
Follow-up database assessment - ANSWERS Reassessing next visit to see if
there are any changes to problem
Inspection - ANSWERS use of sight to gather assessment data
Palpation - ANSWERS assessment using touch
-Warm hands
-start light to deep
-palpate tender areas last
Percussion - ANSWERS tapping of organs
Flatness- bone or muscle
Dullness- heart, spleen, liver
Resonance- air filled lungs (hollow)
Hyperresonance- empysematous lung (hyperinflated)
Tympany- air filled stomach (drumlike)
Auscultation - ANSWERS Listening with stethoscope
Priority care: first level - ANSWERS Emergent/Life threatening
EX: your client is not breathing
, Priority care: second level - ANSWERS Urgent
EX: mental status changes (like they become confused suddenly), safety risk
(Potassium is out of wack), person cannot pee
Priority care: third level - ANSWERS Need attention, but not priority
EX: cannot sleep well, problems with lack of knowledge, mobility, etc
What is sexuality? - ANSWERS biological sex, sexual activity, gender roles/
identity and sexual orientation
ABCDE - ANSWERS -Asymmetry
-Border
-color
-diameter
-evolution
Primary lesions - ANSWERS •appear as a direct result of the disease or appear
on previously blank skin
•macule (flat less than 1cm, freckle), patch, papule, plaque, nodule, tumor, wheal,
urticaria, vesicle, bulla
Secondary lesions - ANSWERS •may develop from primary lesions or result
from external trauma-scratching, infection of primary lesion
•crust, scale, erosion (popped blister), fissure (Dry skin breaking open, feet and
corners of mouth), ulcer,excoriation (scratching), scar, lichenification, keloid (scar
with excess collagen)
and Answers with Complete Solutions | Fall
2025-2026
Subjective data - ANSWERS What patient tells you
EX: patient with sore throat and ear pain
Objective data - ANSWERS what you as healthcare worker observe (smelling,
observing, feeling) *It is measurable
EX: Phyrynx is pink and moist
Primary source - ANSWERS the patient is the primary source
EX: Respiratory rate of 22 per min, reports pain of 3/10
Secondary source - ANSWERS family, staff, or witness is the source
EX: nurse says patient has a limp
General survey - ANSWERS overall impression/ assessment that's continuing
throughout the exam (look for red flags)
Complete database assessment - ANSWERS Baseline health database
Focused database assessment - ANSWERS Limited or short term problem,
targeted, one problem
,EX:rash
Follow-up database assessment - ANSWERS Reassessing next visit to see if
there are any changes to problem
Inspection - ANSWERS use of sight to gather assessment data
Palpation - ANSWERS assessment using touch
-Warm hands
-start light to deep
-palpate tender areas last
Percussion - ANSWERS tapping of organs
Flatness- bone or muscle
Dullness- heart, spleen, liver
Resonance- air filled lungs (hollow)
Hyperresonance- empysematous lung (hyperinflated)
Tympany- air filled stomach (drumlike)
Auscultation - ANSWERS Listening with stethoscope
Priority care: first level - ANSWERS Emergent/Life threatening
EX: your client is not breathing
, Priority care: second level - ANSWERS Urgent
EX: mental status changes (like they become confused suddenly), safety risk
(Potassium is out of wack), person cannot pee
Priority care: third level - ANSWERS Need attention, but not priority
EX: cannot sleep well, problems with lack of knowledge, mobility, etc
What is sexuality? - ANSWERS biological sex, sexual activity, gender roles/
identity and sexual orientation
ABCDE - ANSWERS -Asymmetry
-Border
-color
-diameter
-evolution
Primary lesions - ANSWERS •appear as a direct result of the disease or appear
on previously blank skin
•macule (flat less than 1cm, freckle), patch, papule, plaque, nodule, tumor, wheal,
urticaria, vesicle, bulla
Secondary lesions - ANSWERS •may develop from primary lesions or result
from external trauma-scratching, infection of primary lesion
•crust, scale, erosion (popped blister), fissure (Dry skin breaking open, feet and
corners of mouth), ulcer,excoriation (scratching), scar, lichenification, keloid (scar
with excess collagen)
