NURSING FINAL EXAM COMPLETE ACTUAL
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED CORRECT
ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉Behavior (observed) . Answer: Mannerisms, gestures, psychomotor
activity, expression, eye contact, ability to follow commands/requests,
compulsions
◉Attitude (observed) . Answer: Cooperative, hostile, open, secretive,
evasive, suspicious, apathetic, easily distracted, focused, defensive
◉Level of Consciousness (observed) . Answer: Vigilant, alert, drowsy,
lethargic, stuporous, asleep, comatose, confused, fluctuating
◉orientation (inquired) . Answer: What is your full name?
Where are we at (floor, building, city, county, and state)?
What is the full date today (date, month, year, day of the week, and
season of year)?
How would you describe the situation we are in?
, ◉Speech and Language (observed) . Answer: Quantity-talkative,
spontaneous, expansive, paucity, poverty
Rate-fast, slow, normal, pressured
Volume (tone)-loud, soft, monotone, weak, strong
Fluency and Rhythm-slurred speech, with appropriately placed
inflections, hesitant, with good articulation, aphasic
◉Mood (inquired)
A sustained state of inner feeling . Answer: How are your spirits?
How are you feeling?
Have you been discouraged/depressed/low/blue lately?
Have you been energized/elated/high/out of control lately?
Have you been angry/irritable/edgy lately?
◉Affect (observed)
An observed expression of inner feeling . Answer: Appropriateness to
situation, consistency with mood, congruency with thought content.
Fluctuations-labile, even
Range-Broad, restricted
Intensity-Blunted, flat, normal intensity
Quality-sad, angry, hostile, indifferent, euthymic, dysohoric, detached,
elated, euphoric, anxious, animated , irritable.