NU 518 COMPREHENSIVE CLINICAL
PRACTICE REVIEW SHEET FULL
SOLUTIONS
●● 2. The components of the health history include all of the following
except which one?
A) Review of systems
B) Thorax and lungs
C) Present illness
D) Personal and social items
Answer: B
●● Is the following information subjective or objective?
Mr. M. has shortness of breath that has persisted for the past 10 days; it
is worse with activity
and relieved by rest.
A) Subjective
B) Objective
Answer: A
●● Is the following information subjective or objective?
Mr. M. has a respiratory rate of 32 and a pulse rate of 120.
,A) Subjective
B) Objective
Answer: B
●● The following information is recorded in the health history: "The
patient has had abdominal
pain for 1 week. The pain lasts for 30 minutes at a time; it comes and
goes. The severity is 7 to 9
on a scale of 1 to 10. It is accompanied by nausea and vomiting. It is
located in the midepigastric area."
Which of these categories does it belong to?
A) Chief complaint
B) Present illness
C) Personal and social history
D) Review of systems
Answer: B
●● The following information is recorded in the health history: "The
patient completed 8th grade.
He currently lives with his wife and two children. He works on old cars
on the weekend. He
works in a glass factory during the week."
Which category does it belong to?
,A) Chief complaint
B) Present illness
C) Personal and social history
D) Review of systems
Answer: C
●● The following information is recorded in the health history: "I feel
really tired."
Which category does it belong to?
A) Chief complaint
B) Present illness
C) Personal and social history
D) Review of systems
Answer: A
●● The following information is recorded in the health history: "Patient
denies chest pain,
palpitations, orthopnea, and paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea."
Which category does it belong to?
A) Chief complaint
B) Present illness
C) Personal and social history
D) Review of systems
, Answer: D
●● The following information is best placed in which category?
"The patient has had three cesarean sections."
A) Adult illnesses
B) Surgeries
C) Obstetrics/gynecology
D) Psychiatric
Answer: B
●● The following information is best placed in which category?
"The patient had a stent placed in the left anterior descending artery
(LAD) in 1999."
A) Adult illnesses
B) Surgeries
C) Obstetrics/gynecology
D) Psychiatric
Answer: A
●● The following information is best placed in which category?
"The patient was treated for an asthma exacerbation in the hospital last
year; the patient has
never been intubated."
PRACTICE REVIEW SHEET FULL
SOLUTIONS
●● 2. The components of the health history include all of the following
except which one?
A) Review of systems
B) Thorax and lungs
C) Present illness
D) Personal and social items
Answer: B
●● Is the following information subjective or objective?
Mr. M. has shortness of breath that has persisted for the past 10 days; it
is worse with activity
and relieved by rest.
A) Subjective
B) Objective
Answer: A
●● Is the following information subjective or objective?
Mr. M. has a respiratory rate of 32 and a pulse rate of 120.
,A) Subjective
B) Objective
Answer: B
●● The following information is recorded in the health history: "The
patient has had abdominal
pain for 1 week. The pain lasts for 30 minutes at a time; it comes and
goes. The severity is 7 to 9
on a scale of 1 to 10. It is accompanied by nausea and vomiting. It is
located in the midepigastric area."
Which of these categories does it belong to?
A) Chief complaint
B) Present illness
C) Personal and social history
D) Review of systems
Answer: B
●● The following information is recorded in the health history: "The
patient completed 8th grade.
He currently lives with his wife and two children. He works on old cars
on the weekend. He
works in a glass factory during the week."
Which category does it belong to?
,A) Chief complaint
B) Present illness
C) Personal and social history
D) Review of systems
Answer: C
●● The following information is recorded in the health history: "I feel
really tired."
Which category does it belong to?
A) Chief complaint
B) Present illness
C) Personal and social history
D) Review of systems
Answer: A
●● The following information is recorded in the health history: "Patient
denies chest pain,
palpitations, orthopnea, and paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea."
Which category does it belong to?
A) Chief complaint
B) Present illness
C) Personal and social history
D) Review of systems
, Answer: D
●● The following information is best placed in which category?
"The patient has had three cesarean sections."
A) Adult illnesses
B) Surgeries
C) Obstetrics/gynecology
D) Psychiatric
Answer: B
●● The following information is best placed in which category?
"The patient had a stent placed in the left anterior descending artery
(LAD) in 1999."
A) Adult illnesses
B) Surgeries
C) Obstetrics/gynecology
D) Psychiatric
Answer: A
●● The following information is best placed in which category?
"The patient was treated for an asthma exacerbation in the hospital last
year; the patient has
never been intubated."
