NUR 265 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS WITH VERIFIED
SOLUTION (GRADED A+) LATEST
UPDATED 2026
Concept: Subjective Data
Answer: ✔✔ Information gathered directly from the client's spoken perspective,
including their reported feelings, perceptions, pain scales, and personal health
history (what the patient tells you).
Concept: Objective Data
Answer: ✔✔ Measurable, reproducible, and observable clinical findings obtained
by the healthcare provider through physical examination, laboratory diagnostics,
diagnostic imaging, and vital sign monitoring (what you see, hear, feel, or
measure).
Concept: Primary Source of Data
Answer: ✔✔ The most direct, uninterpreted origin of clinical information. In
patient care, this is the coherent client themselves; in research, it includes original
medical charts, first-hand clinical trials, and raw experimental data.
Concept: Secondary Source of Data
Answer: ✔✔ Indirect information compiled, interpreted, or summarized from an
original source. This includes insights gathered from family members, previous
medical records, textbooks, or journal reviews detailing a client's condition.
Concept: First-Level Priority Problems
Answer: ✔✔ Immediate, life-threatening clinical emergencies that require
instantaneous medical or nursing intervention to prevent death. Classic examples
mirror the ABCs: maintaining a patent airway, supporting failing respirations, or
managing severe circulatory collapse.
Concept: Second-Level Priority Problems
Answer: ✔✔ Acute, urgent clinical needs that require timely intervention to
prevent serious physiological deterioration. Examples include sudden changes in
, mental status, acute severe pain, untreated medical issues (such as an abnormal lab
value), or acute elimination problems.
Concept: Third-Level Priority Problems
Answer: ✔✔ Non-urgent health issues that warrant clinical attention and long-
term care planning but do not pose an immediate threat to the patient's stability.
Examples include deficits in mobility, lack of knowledge, or altered rest and sleep
patterns.
General survey (Physical assessment) -ANSWER ✔✔Physical appearance, body
structure, mobility, behavior (response to stimuli, level of alertness), parental
bonding
Complete -ANSWER ✔✔Complete health history and full physical examination,
current and past state of health to form a baseline
Focused -ANSWER ✔✔For limited/ short-term problems, concerns mainly one
problem, one cure complex, or one body system
Follow-up -ANSWER ✔✔Status of any identified problems should be evaluated at
regular and appropriate intervals. Any changes? Worsening or improvement?
Coping strategies?
Inspection -ANSWER ✔✔Concentrated watching, ALWAYS comes first
Palpation -ANSWER ✔✔Applies sense of touch to assess texture, temperature,
moisture, organ location and size; swelling, vibration, pulsation, rigidity or
spasticity, crepitation, presence of any lumps or masses, and presence of
tenderness or pain
AND ANSWERS WITH VERIFIED
SOLUTION (GRADED A+) LATEST
UPDATED 2026
Concept: Subjective Data
Answer: ✔✔ Information gathered directly from the client's spoken perspective,
including their reported feelings, perceptions, pain scales, and personal health
history (what the patient tells you).
Concept: Objective Data
Answer: ✔✔ Measurable, reproducible, and observable clinical findings obtained
by the healthcare provider through physical examination, laboratory diagnostics,
diagnostic imaging, and vital sign monitoring (what you see, hear, feel, or
measure).
Concept: Primary Source of Data
Answer: ✔✔ The most direct, uninterpreted origin of clinical information. In
patient care, this is the coherent client themselves; in research, it includes original
medical charts, first-hand clinical trials, and raw experimental data.
Concept: Secondary Source of Data
Answer: ✔✔ Indirect information compiled, interpreted, or summarized from an
original source. This includes insights gathered from family members, previous
medical records, textbooks, or journal reviews detailing a client's condition.
Concept: First-Level Priority Problems
Answer: ✔✔ Immediate, life-threatening clinical emergencies that require
instantaneous medical or nursing intervention to prevent death. Classic examples
mirror the ABCs: maintaining a patent airway, supporting failing respirations, or
managing severe circulatory collapse.
Concept: Second-Level Priority Problems
Answer: ✔✔ Acute, urgent clinical needs that require timely intervention to
prevent serious physiological deterioration. Examples include sudden changes in
, mental status, acute severe pain, untreated medical issues (such as an abnormal lab
value), or acute elimination problems.
Concept: Third-Level Priority Problems
Answer: ✔✔ Non-urgent health issues that warrant clinical attention and long-
term care planning but do not pose an immediate threat to the patient's stability.
Examples include deficits in mobility, lack of knowledge, or altered rest and sleep
patterns.
General survey (Physical assessment) -ANSWER ✔✔Physical appearance, body
structure, mobility, behavior (response to stimuli, level of alertness), parental
bonding
Complete -ANSWER ✔✔Complete health history and full physical examination,
current and past state of health to form a baseline
Focused -ANSWER ✔✔For limited/ short-term problems, concerns mainly one
problem, one cure complex, or one body system
Follow-up -ANSWER ✔✔Status of any identified problems should be evaluated at
regular and appropriate intervals. Any changes? Worsening or improvement?
Coping strategies?
Inspection -ANSWER ✔✔Concentrated watching, ALWAYS comes first
Palpation -ANSWER ✔✔Applies sense of touch to assess texture, temperature,
moisture, organ location and size; swelling, vibration, pulsation, rigidity or
spasticity, crepitation, presence of any lumps or masses, and presence of
tenderness or pain
