PHYSICAL EXAMINATION AND HEALTH
ASSESSMENT BY JARVIS EXAM SCRIPT 2026
TESTED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
ALREADY PASSED
◉ What is objective data. Answer: what you as the health
professional observed by inspecting, percussing, palpating, and
ausculating patient during physical examination
◉ What forms the database. Answer: subjective and objective data
together with the patient's record and laboratory studies
◉ Define assessment. Answer: collection of data about the
individual's health state
◉ What is the purpose of assessment. Answer: to make a judgement
or a diagnosis
◉ What is diagnostic reasoning. Answer: process of analyzing health
data and drawing conclusions to identify diagnoses
◉ What are the four major components in diagnostic reasoning.
Answer: 1. attending to initially available cues
, 2. formulating diagnostic hypotheses
3. gathering data relative to the tentative hypotheses
4. evaluating each hypothesis with the new data collected, thus
arriving at a final diagnosis
◉ What is a cue. Answer: piece of information, a sign or symptom, or
a piece of laboratory data
◉ What is a hypothesis. Answer: a tentative explanation for a cue or
set of cues that can be used as a basis for further investigation
◉ What are the six phases in the nursing process. Answer:
assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning,
implementation, evaluation
◉ What is critical thinking. Answer: the means by which we learn to
assess and modify, if indicated, before acting
◉ Critical thinking is required for .... Answer: sound diagnostic
reasoning and clinical judgement
◉ What is meant by identifying assumptions. Answer: recognizing
that you could take information for granted or see it as fact when
actually there is no evidence for it
ASSESSMENT BY JARVIS EXAM SCRIPT 2026
TESTED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
ALREADY PASSED
◉ What is objective data. Answer: what you as the health
professional observed by inspecting, percussing, palpating, and
ausculating patient during physical examination
◉ What forms the database. Answer: subjective and objective data
together with the patient's record and laboratory studies
◉ Define assessment. Answer: collection of data about the
individual's health state
◉ What is the purpose of assessment. Answer: to make a judgement
or a diagnosis
◉ What is diagnostic reasoning. Answer: process of analyzing health
data and drawing conclusions to identify diagnoses
◉ What are the four major components in diagnostic reasoning.
Answer: 1. attending to initially available cues
, 2. formulating diagnostic hypotheses
3. gathering data relative to the tentative hypotheses
4. evaluating each hypothesis with the new data collected, thus
arriving at a final diagnosis
◉ What is a cue. Answer: piece of information, a sign or symptom, or
a piece of laboratory data
◉ What is a hypothesis. Answer: a tentative explanation for a cue or
set of cues that can be used as a basis for further investigation
◉ What are the six phases in the nursing process. Answer:
assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning,
implementation, evaluation
◉ What is critical thinking. Answer: the means by which we learn to
assess and modify, if indicated, before acting
◉ Critical thinking is required for .... Answer: sound diagnostic
reasoning and clinical judgement
◉ What is meant by identifying assumptions. Answer: recognizing
that you could take information for granted or see it as fact when
actually there is no evidence for it
