NU 508 QUIZ 3 COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
SCRIPT 2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
⩥ Intimate Partner Violence. Answer: Abuse Assessment Screen (AAS)
⩥ Elder abuse and Neglect. Answer: Elder Abuse Suspicion Index
(EASI)
⩥ Child Abuse and Neglect. Answer: You can use various developmental
screening tools that identify risk factors for abuse and provide a platform
for guidance to parents about expected development and upcoming
developmental changes (i.e., the normal periods of excessive crying in
the newborn period).
⩥ Risk of Homicide. Answer: Danger Assessment (DA)
⩥ How do nurses document abuse and neglect?. Answer: -must include
detailed, nonbiased progress notes, the use of injury maps, and
photographic documentation in the health record.
-Written documentation of histories of IPV and elder abuse need to be
verbatim but within reason.
,⩥ Health effects that violence or neglects have on women, the elderly
and children. Answer: -Women: chronic health problems, including
significantly more neurologic, gastrointestinal, and gynecologic
symptoms and chronic pain
-Elderly: dehydration, malnutrition, and skin breakdown
-Children: mental health issues, incidence of suicide attempts, substance
abuse, and the risk of perpetrating abuse as an adult
⩥ How would you handle suspected Intimate Partner Violence when the
victims refuse to participate in your assessment?. Answer: -Assure her
its not her fault
-Over resources for help
-Ask manager what to do
⩥ your role as a healthcare provider to screen for domestic violence.
Answer: -you are able to identify it and provide help to vulnerable
populations
⩥ How would you initiate a conversation about domestic violence?.
Answer: Many health care professionals precede IPV-related questions
with an introduction such as: "Because domestic violence is so common
in our society, we are asking all women the following questions" or
"Because domestic violence has such serious health care consequences,
we are asking all of our female patients the questions that follow." This
both alerts the woman that questions about domestic violence are
, coming and makes sure that the woman knows that she is not being
singled out for these questions.
⩥ requirements for mandatory reporting. Answer: Almost every state has
some form of it of abused older adults and other vulnerable patients (the
developmentally disabled and the mentally ill). You need to be familiar
with the reporting requirements in the state in which you practice. In
some communities, the reporting mechanism is established county by
county, whereas other states have a statewide hotline. As
_____________ of abuse, you need only have suspicion that elder abuse
and/or neglect may have occurred to generate a call to the authorities.
Many nurses, physicians, and social workers are erroneously under the
assumption that they must have proof of abuse before calling the hotline.
⩥ Abrasion. Answer: A wound caused by rubbing the skin or mucous
membrane.
⩥ Avulsion. Answer: The tearing away of a structure or part.
⩥ Bruise. Answer: Superficial discoloration caused by hemorrhage into
the tissues from ruptured blood vessels beneath the skin surface, without
the skin itself being broken; also called a contusion.
⩥ Contusion. Answer: A bruise; injury to tissues without breakage of
skin; blood from broken blood vessels accumulates, producing pain,
swelling, tenderness.
SCRIPT 2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
⩥ Intimate Partner Violence. Answer: Abuse Assessment Screen (AAS)
⩥ Elder abuse and Neglect. Answer: Elder Abuse Suspicion Index
(EASI)
⩥ Child Abuse and Neglect. Answer: You can use various developmental
screening tools that identify risk factors for abuse and provide a platform
for guidance to parents about expected development and upcoming
developmental changes (i.e., the normal periods of excessive crying in
the newborn period).
⩥ Risk of Homicide. Answer: Danger Assessment (DA)
⩥ How do nurses document abuse and neglect?. Answer: -must include
detailed, nonbiased progress notes, the use of injury maps, and
photographic documentation in the health record.
-Written documentation of histories of IPV and elder abuse need to be
verbatim but within reason.
,⩥ Health effects that violence or neglects have on women, the elderly
and children. Answer: -Women: chronic health problems, including
significantly more neurologic, gastrointestinal, and gynecologic
symptoms and chronic pain
-Elderly: dehydration, malnutrition, and skin breakdown
-Children: mental health issues, incidence of suicide attempts, substance
abuse, and the risk of perpetrating abuse as an adult
⩥ How would you handle suspected Intimate Partner Violence when the
victims refuse to participate in your assessment?. Answer: -Assure her
its not her fault
-Over resources for help
-Ask manager what to do
⩥ your role as a healthcare provider to screen for domestic violence.
Answer: -you are able to identify it and provide help to vulnerable
populations
⩥ How would you initiate a conversation about domestic violence?.
Answer: Many health care professionals precede IPV-related questions
with an introduction such as: "Because domestic violence is so common
in our society, we are asking all women the following questions" or
"Because domestic violence has such serious health care consequences,
we are asking all of our female patients the questions that follow." This
both alerts the woman that questions about domestic violence are
, coming and makes sure that the woman knows that she is not being
singled out for these questions.
⩥ requirements for mandatory reporting. Answer: Almost every state has
some form of it of abused older adults and other vulnerable patients (the
developmentally disabled and the mentally ill). You need to be familiar
with the reporting requirements in the state in which you practice. In
some communities, the reporting mechanism is established county by
county, whereas other states have a statewide hotline. As
_____________ of abuse, you need only have suspicion that elder abuse
and/or neglect may have occurred to generate a call to the authorities.
Many nurses, physicians, and social workers are erroneously under the
assumption that they must have proof of abuse before calling the hotline.
⩥ Abrasion. Answer: A wound caused by rubbing the skin or mucous
membrane.
⩥ Avulsion. Answer: The tearing away of a structure or part.
⩥ Bruise. Answer: Superficial discoloration caused by hemorrhage into
the tissues from ruptured blood vessels beneath the skin surface, without
the skin itself being broken; also called a contusion.
⩥ Contusion. Answer: A bruise; injury to tissues without breakage of
skin; blood from broken blood vessels accumulates, producing pain,
swelling, tenderness.
