NSG 121 Detailed Exam Questions
with Verified Answers
1. The nurse's role in health assessment to perform - ANSWER nursing
process.
2. What type of patient would you do a focus assessment on? - ANSWER
Patient that has a specific problem.
3. Primary prevention - ANSWER involves strategies aimed at preventing
problems Examples: Immunizations, health teaching, safety precautions, and
nutrition counseling.
4. Secondary prevention - ANSWER includes the early diagnosis of health
problems and prompts treatment to prevent complications. Examples: Vision
screening, Pap smears, B/P screening, hearing test, scoliosis screening, and
tuberculin skin testing.
5. Tertiary prevention - ANSWER focuses on preventing complications of an
existing disease and promoting health to the highest level. Examples: Diet
teaching and exercise programs.
6. What are the assessment frameworks? - ANSWER functional assessment,
head-to-toe assessment, and body systems assessment.
7. functional assessment (specific region) - ANSWER focuses on the
functional patterns that all humans share: health perception and health
management, activity and exercise, nutrition and metabolism, elimination,
sleep and rest, cognition and perception, self-perception and self-concept,
, roles, and relationships, coping and stress tolerance, sexuality and
reproduction, and values and beliefs.
8. head-to-toe assessment (Over all body) - ANSWER is the most organized
system for gathering comprehensive physical data. Because data in one
functional area are collected from different parts of the body, it is very
inefficient to collect physical data by functional status. For example,
peripheral circulation is assessed in both the arms and the legs.
9. body systems assessment approach - ANSWER is a logical tool for
organizing data when documenting and communicating findings. This
method promotes critical thinking and allows you to analyze findings as you
cluster similar data.
10.Communication Process forms: - ANSWER verbal, nonverbal, electronic
11.Electronic Communication - ANSWER The Internet and a variety of social
websites provide new and challenging opportunities for nurses to
communicate and collaborate with other health care providers. The
challenges of using social media include protecting patient privacy and
confidentiality and preventing unintended consequences for the employer or
the nurse. Example: DAR
12.Verbal communication - ANSWER is an exchange of information using
words. Example: spoken and written word.
13.Nonverbal Communication - ANSWER The transmission of information
without the use of words is termed nonverbal communication, also known as
body language. It often helps nurses to understand subtle and hidden
meanings in what the patient is saying verbally. For example, a nurse asks
the patient, "How do you feel today?" The patient responds, "I feel all right."
,14.Components of Communication - ANSWER Sender, Receiver,
Understanding, Perception, & Culture
15.Components of Communication: Sender, Receiver, Understanding,
Perception, & Culture
If you are the nurse giving presentation on the communication process, what
should you include? - ANSWER Sender and the Receiver
16.Sender - ANSWER Person of group who initiates or begins the
communication
17.Receiver - ANSWER A. Must translate and interpret the message sent
18.Understanding - ANSWER Was the message understood
19.What is therapeutic communication? - ANSWER Caring and Empathy
20.Your client has a high blood glucose, headache, and pain in arm. What type
of assessment would it be? - ANSWER Body Systems Approach
21.According to Hildegard Peplau know that you have utilized effective
communication when what is assessed? - ANSWER Nurse patient
relationship
22.You encounter a client who tells you they've had bad experiences in
hospitalization what form of communication is that? - ANSWER Perception
, 23.How do you respond to a client who tells you to they don't believe in
doctors' diagnoses? - ANSWER Perception) Sounds like you are not
understanding or believing what the doctor told you.
24.When you ask a client to tell you more what type of verbal communication
skills is it? - ANSWER Elaboration
25.Elaboration (facilitation) - ANSWER is a technique that assists patients to
more completely describe difficulties. You use responses that encourage
patients to say more and continue the conversation. This shows patients that
you are interested. You may nod your head, or say, "Um-hum," "Yes," or
"Go on" to cue patients to keep talking.
26.What are examples of non-therapeutic response? - ANSWER False
Reassurance
• Sympathy
• Unwanted Advice
• Biased Questions
• Change of Subject
• Distractions
• Technical or Overwhelming Language
• Interrupting
27.False assurance - ANSWER you unconsciously indicate to patients that
their concerns are not worth discussing. This situation enhances anxiety,
which can increase a patient's needs in other areas, such as pain medication,
and diminish trust. Examples of false reassurance are, "It won't hurt," or
"Don't worry—it will be all right." It would be better instead to say, for
example, "It will hurt a bit when I take off the bandage.
28.Sympathy - ANSWER is feeling what a patient feels. When you are being
sympathetic, you are not being therapeutic because you are interpreting the
with Verified Answers
1. The nurse's role in health assessment to perform - ANSWER nursing
process.
2. What type of patient would you do a focus assessment on? - ANSWER
Patient that has a specific problem.
3. Primary prevention - ANSWER involves strategies aimed at preventing
problems Examples: Immunizations, health teaching, safety precautions, and
nutrition counseling.
4. Secondary prevention - ANSWER includes the early diagnosis of health
problems and prompts treatment to prevent complications. Examples: Vision
screening, Pap smears, B/P screening, hearing test, scoliosis screening, and
tuberculin skin testing.
5. Tertiary prevention - ANSWER focuses on preventing complications of an
existing disease and promoting health to the highest level. Examples: Diet
teaching and exercise programs.
6. What are the assessment frameworks? - ANSWER functional assessment,
head-to-toe assessment, and body systems assessment.
7. functional assessment (specific region) - ANSWER focuses on the
functional patterns that all humans share: health perception and health
management, activity and exercise, nutrition and metabolism, elimination,
sleep and rest, cognition and perception, self-perception and self-concept,
, roles, and relationships, coping and stress tolerance, sexuality and
reproduction, and values and beliefs.
8. head-to-toe assessment (Over all body) - ANSWER is the most organized
system for gathering comprehensive physical data. Because data in one
functional area are collected from different parts of the body, it is very
inefficient to collect physical data by functional status. For example,
peripheral circulation is assessed in both the arms and the legs.
9. body systems assessment approach - ANSWER is a logical tool for
organizing data when documenting and communicating findings. This
method promotes critical thinking and allows you to analyze findings as you
cluster similar data.
10.Communication Process forms: - ANSWER verbal, nonverbal, electronic
11.Electronic Communication - ANSWER The Internet and a variety of social
websites provide new and challenging opportunities for nurses to
communicate and collaborate with other health care providers. The
challenges of using social media include protecting patient privacy and
confidentiality and preventing unintended consequences for the employer or
the nurse. Example: DAR
12.Verbal communication - ANSWER is an exchange of information using
words. Example: spoken and written word.
13.Nonverbal Communication - ANSWER The transmission of information
without the use of words is termed nonverbal communication, also known as
body language. It often helps nurses to understand subtle and hidden
meanings in what the patient is saying verbally. For example, a nurse asks
the patient, "How do you feel today?" The patient responds, "I feel all right."
,14.Components of Communication - ANSWER Sender, Receiver,
Understanding, Perception, & Culture
15.Components of Communication: Sender, Receiver, Understanding,
Perception, & Culture
If you are the nurse giving presentation on the communication process, what
should you include? - ANSWER Sender and the Receiver
16.Sender - ANSWER Person of group who initiates or begins the
communication
17.Receiver - ANSWER A. Must translate and interpret the message sent
18.Understanding - ANSWER Was the message understood
19.What is therapeutic communication? - ANSWER Caring and Empathy
20.Your client has a high blood glucose, headache, and pain in arm. What type
of assessment would it be? - ANSWER Body Systems Approach
21.According to Hildegard Peplau know that you have utilized effective
communication when what is assessed? - ANSWER Nurse patient
relationship
22.You encounter a client who tells you they've had bad experiences in
hospitalization what form of communication is that? - ANSWER Perception
, 23.How do you respond to a client who tells you to they don't believe in
doctors' diagnoses? - ANSWER Perception) Sounds like you are not
understanding or believing what the doctor told you.
24.When you ask a client to tell you more what type of verbal communication
skills is it? - ANSWER Elaboration
25.Elaboration (facilitation) - ANSWER is a technique that assists patients to
more completely describe difficulties. You use responses that encourage
patients to say more and continue the conversation. This shows patients that
you are interested. You may nod your head, or say, "Um-hum," "Yes," or
"Go on" to cue patients to keep talking.
26.What are examples of non-therapeutic response? - ANSWER False
Reassurance
• Sympathy
• Unwanted Advice
• Biased Questions
• Change of Subject
• Distractions
• Technical or Overwhelming Language
• Interrupting
27.False assurance - ANSWER you unconsciously indicate to patients that
their concerns are not worth discussing. This situation enhances anxiety,
which can increase a patient's needs in other areas, such as pain medication,
and diminish trust. Examples of false reassurance are, "It won't hurt," or
"Don't worry—it will be all right." It would be better instead to say, for
example, "It will hurt a bit when I take off the bandage.
28.Sympathy - ANSWER is feeling what a patient feels. When you are being
sympathetic, you are not being therapeutic because you are interpreting the
