NR509 advanced physical assessment midterm week 1-4 EXAM
NR509 ADVANCED PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT MIDTERM WEEK 1-4 EXAM
NEWEST 2025/2026 ACTUAL EXAM TEST BANK COMPLETE 450
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|ALREADY GRADED A+||BRAND NEW!!
A patient admitted to the hospital with asthma has has the following health
problems identified based on the admission health history and physical
assessment. Which problem is a first level priority?
A. Ineffective self health management
B. Risk for infection
C. Impaired gas exchange
D. Readiness for enhanced spiritual well being
C. Impaired gas exchange
A medical diagnosis is used to evaluate:
A. A persons state of health
B. The response of the whole person to actual or potential health problems
C. A persons culture
D. the cause of disease
D. the cause of disease
When discussing a treatment plan the nurse infers that the patient is
uncomfortable asking the physician for a different treatment because of fear of
the physicians reaction. In this situation, the nurses verbal interpretation is:
A. Affects the nurse-physician relationship
B. impedes further discussion
C. helps the patient understand personal feelings in relation to his/her verbal
message
D. helps the nurse understand his/her own personal feelings in relation to the
patients verbal message
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C. helps the patient understand personal feelings in relation to his/her verbal
message
Parents or caretakers accompany children to health care setting. Starting at ___
years of age, the interviewer asks the child directly about his/her presenting
symptoms
A. 5
B. 7
C. 9
D. 11
B. 7
The most appropriate introduction to use to start an interview with an older adult
patient is:
A) "Mr. Jones, I want to ask you some questions about your health so that we can
plan your care."
B) "David, I am here to ask you questions about your illness; we want to
determine what is wrong."
C) "Mr. Jones, is it okay if I ask you several questions this morning about your
health?"
D) "Because so many people have already asked you questions, I will just get the
information from the chart."
A. Mr. Jones, I want to ask you some questions about your health so that we can
plan your care
The use of euphemisms to avoid reality or feeling is known as:
A. distancing language
B. sympathetic language
C. avoidance language
D. ethnocentric language
c. avoidance language
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which of the following statements made by the interviewer is appropriate:
A. I know just how you feel
B. If I were you, I would have the surgery
C. Why did you wait so long to make an appointment
D. Tell me what you mean about "bad blood"
D. Tell me what you mean about "bad blood"
When preparing the physical setting for an interview, the interviewer should:
A. Set the room temp betw 64 and 66 degrees
B. reduce noise by turning down the tv or radio
C. conduct the interview at eye level and at a distance of 4 to 5 feet
D. stand next to the patient to convey a professional demeanor
C. conduct the interview at eye level and at a distance of 4 to 5 feet
Nonverbal communication is the primary form for which group of people:
A. Infants
B. preschoolers
C. adolescents
D. older adults
A. infants
Viewing the world from another person's inner frame of reference is called:
A) reflection.
B) empathy.
C) clarification.
D) sympathy.
B. empathy
When addressing a toddler during the interview, the health care provider should:
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A) ask the child, before the caretaker, about symptoms.
B) use nonverbal communication.
C) use short, simple, concrete sentences.
D) use detailed explanations.
C. use short, simple, concrete sentences
An example of an open-ended question or statement is:
A) "Tell me about your pain."
B) "On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate your pain?"
C) "I can see that you are quite uncomfortable."
D) "You are upset about the level of pain, right?"
A. tell me about your pain
When recording information for the review of systems, the interviewer must
document:
A. physical findings, such as skin appearance, to support historic data
B. "negative" under the system heading
C. The presence or absence of all symptoms under system heading
D. objective data to support the history of present illness
C. the presence or absence of all symptoms under system heading
The "review of systems" in the health history is:
A) an evaluation of past and present health state of each body system.
B) a documentation of the problem as perceived by the patient.
C) a record of objective findings.
D) a short statement of general health status.
A. an evaluation of past and present health state of each body system.
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NR509 ADVANCED PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT MIDTERM WEEK 1-4 EXAM
NEWEST 2025/2026 ACTUAL EXAM TEST BANK COMPLETE 450
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|ALREADY GRADED A+||BRAND NEW!!
A patient admitted to the hospital with asthma has has the following health
problems identified based on the admission health history and physical
assessment. Which problem is a first level priority?
A. Ineffective self health management
B. Risk for infection
C. Impaired gas exchange
D. Readiness for enhanced spiritual well being
C. Impaired gas exchange
A medical diagnosis is used to evaluate:
A. A persons state of health
B. The response of the whole person to actual or potential health problems
C. A persons culture
D. the cause of disease
D. the cause of disease
When discussing a treatment plan the nurse infers that the patient is
uncomfortable asking the physician for a different treatment because of fear of
the physicians reaction. In this situation, the nurses verbal interpretation is:
A. Affects the nurse-physician relationship
B. impedes further discussion
C. helps the patient understand personal feelings in relation to his/her verbal
message
D. helps the nurse understand his/her own personal feelings in relation to the
patients verbal message
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, NR509 advanced physical assessment midterm week 1-4 EXAM
C. helps the patient understand personal feelings in relation to his/her verbal
message
Parents or caretakers accompany children to health care setting. Starting at ___
years of age, the interviewer asks the child directly about his/her presenting
symptoms
A. 5
B. 7
C. 9
D. 11
B. 7
The most appropriate introduction to use to start an interview with an older adult
patient is:
A) "Mr. Jones, I want to ask you some questions about your health so that we can
plan your care."
B) "David, I am here to ask you questions about your illness; we want to
determine what is wrong."
C) "Mr. Jones, is it okay if I ask you several questions this morning about your
health?"
D) "Because so many people have already asked you questions, I will just get the
information from the chart."
A. Mr. Jones, I want to ask you some questions about your health so that we can
plan your care
The use of euphemisms to avoid reality or feeling is known as:
A. distancing language
B. sympathetic language
C. avoidance language
D. ethnocentric language
c. avoidance language
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, NR509 advanced physical assessment midterm week 1-4 EXAM
which of the following statements made by the interviewer is appropriate:
A. I know just how you feel
B. If I were you, I would have the surgery
C. Why did you wait so long to make an appointment
D. Tell me what you mean about "bad blood"
D. Tell me what you mean about "bad blood"
When preparing the physical setting for an interview, the interviewer should:
A. Set the room temp betw 64 and 66 degrees
B. reduce noise by turning down the tv or radio
C. conduct the interview at eye level and at a distance of 4 to 5 feet
D. stand next to the patient to convey a professional demeanor
C. conduct the interview at eye level and at a distance of 4 to 5 feet
Nonverbal communication is the primary form for which group of people:
A. Infants
B. preschoolers
C. adolescents
D. older adults
A. infants
Viewing the world from another person's inner frame of reference is called:
A) reflection.
B) empathy.
C) clarification.
D) sympathy.
B. empathy
When addressing a toddler during the interview, the health care provider should:
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, NR509 advanced physical assessment midterm week 1-4 EXAM
A) ask the child, before the caretaker, about symptoms.
B) use nonverbal communication.
C) use short, simple, concrete sentences.
D) use detailed explanations.
C. use short, simple, concrete sentences
An example of an open-ended question or statement is:
A) "Tell me about your pain."
B) "On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate your pain?"
C) "I can see that you are quite uncomfortable."
D) "You are upset about the level of pain, right?"
A. tell me about your pain
When recording information for the review of systems, the interviewer must
document:
A. physical findings, such as skin appearance, to support historic data
B. "negative" under the system heading
C. The presence or absence of all symptoms under system heading
D. objective data to support the history of present illness
C. the presence or absence of all symptoms under system heading
The "review of systems" in the health history is:
A) an evaluation of past and present health state of each body system.
B) a documentation of the problem as perceived by the patient.
C) a record of objective findings.
D) a short statement of general health status.
A. an evaluation of past and present health state of each body system.
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