4/18/25, 11:45 AM WGU Health Assessment Terms & Questions
WGU HEALTH ASSESSMENT TERMS AND ACTUAL
EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS ||VERIFIED ANSWERS GUARANTEED
PASS ALREADY GRADED A+
Terms in this set (231)
Complete database used to perform a complete health history and a full physical
exam
rapid collection of data, which commonly occurs while
Emergency database
performing lifesaving measures
Problem centered data base, usually consisting of one
problem, one cue complex, or one body system.
Focused or Mini database
used for a limited or short
term problem. smaller and
more targeted
evaluates the status of any identified problem at
Follow up database
regular intervals to follow up on short term or chronic
health problems
Culturally competences means cultural similarities and differences, social factors, stress
implies that caregivers factors, awareness of immigration status
understand and attend to
the total context of the
individuals, which include?
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,4/18/25, 11:45 AM WGU Health Assessment Terms & Questions
the degree to which a person's lifestyle reflects his or her
Heritage consistency traditional heritage.
It includes determination of a person's cultural, ethnic,
and religious background and socialization experience.
What does balance of "hot" need to use the opposites in order to restore the "hot" and "cold"
foods and "cold" foods balance
mean?
learned, shared, adapted, and dynamic
LEARNED from birth thru language acquisition
and socialization SHARED by all members of
4 characteristics of culture
the same cultural group
ADAPTED to specific conditions r/t
environmental/technical factors and to the availability
of resources
DYNAMIC is ever changing
pertains to membership in a social group that claims
Ethnicity to possess a common geographic origin, migratory
status, religion, race, language, shared values, traditions
or symbols, and food preferences.
As a healthcare provider you of your patient, your own, the nursing profession and the health
must have knowledge in care system
what kind of heritage ?
Nonverbal communication infants
is the primary form of
communication for which
group?
What are the signs that a an unusually loud or soft voice, staring intently at
patient may have some another's person's mouth and face, speech garbled
hearing impairment?
used to obtain specific
information call for short
closed /direct question or one or two word answers
statement
elicit cold facts
limit rapport
leaves interactions neutral
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, 4/18/25, 11:45 AM WGU Health Assessment Terms & Questions
used to obtain narrative info "tell
me about your pain" call for long
open ended question or
statement paragraph answers
elicit feelings, opinions
and ideas build and
enhance rapport
When talking with toddler short, simple, concrete statements
during exam, use
?
When talking with adolescent detailed explanations
during exam, use?
statement of confidentiality and the expectations of
What is included in the
interview contract ? each person, information about the time, place and
purpose of the interview, information about cost
provider recognizes and accepts the patient's feelings
empathy without criticism. Makes patient feel accepted
Views the world from another's inner frame of reference
facilitation encourage patient to say more, and to continue with the story
observe a certain action, feeling or statement and focus
confrontation
the person's attention on it. The nurse then gives
honest feedback about what was seen or felt
distancing using impersonal speech to put space between the self and a
threat
a type of verbal response where the nurse links events,
interpretation
makes associations or implies cause and then
expresses his/her own thoughts and feelings
While interviewing the patient, listen, talk
you need to
_______________more often than _.
3/26
WGU HEALTH ASSESSMENT TERMS AND ACTUAL
EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS ||VERIFIED ANSWERS GUARANTEED
PASS ALREADY GRADED A+
Terms in this set (231)
Complete database used to perform a complete health history and a full physical
exam
rapid collection of data, which commonly occurs while
Emergency database
performing lifesaving measures
Problem centered data base, usually consisting of one
problem, one cue complex, or one body system.
Focused or Mini database
used for a limited or short
term problem. smaller and
more targeted
evaluates the status of any identified problem at
Follow up database
regular intervals to follow up on short term or chronic
health problems
Culturally competences means cultural similarities and differences, social factors, stress
implies that caregivers factors, awareness of immigration status
understand and attend to
the total context of the
individuals, which include?
1/26
,4/18/25, 11:45 AM WGU Health Assessment Terms & Questions
the degree to which a person's lifestyle reflects his or her
Heritage consistency traditional heritage.
It includes determination of a person's cultural, ethnic,
and religious background and socialization experience.
What does balance of "hot" need to use the opposites in order to restore the "hot" and "cold"
foods and "cold" foods balance
mean?
learned, shared, adapted, and dynamic
LEARNED from birth thru language acquisition
and socialization SHARED by all members of
4 characteristics of culture
the same cultural group
ADAPTED to specific conditions r/t
environmental/technical factors and to the availability
of resources
DYNAMIC is ever changing
pertains to membership in a social group that claims
Ethnicity to possess a common geographic origin, migratory
status, religion, race, language, shared values, traditions
or symbols, and food preferences.
As a healthcare provider you of your patient, your own, the nursing profession and the health
must have knowledge in care system
what kind of heritage ?
Nonverbal communication infants
is the primary form of
communication for which
group?
What are the signs that a an unusually loud or soft voice, staring intently at
patient may have some another's person's mouth and face, speech garbled
hearing impairment?
used to obtain specific
information call for short
closed /direct question or one or two word answers
statement
elicit cold facts
limit rapport
leaves interactions neutral
2/26
, 4/18/25, 11:45 AM WGU Health Assessment Terms & Questions
used to obtain narrative info "tell
me about your pain" call for long
open ended question or
statement paragraph answers
elicit feelings, opinions
and ideas build and
enhance rapport
When talking with toddler short, simple, concrete statements
during exam, use
?
When talking with adolescent detailed explanations
during exam, use?
statement of confidentiality and the expectations of
What is included in the
interview contract ? each person, information about the time, place and
purpose of the interview, information about cost
provider recognizes and accepts the patient's feelings
empathy without criticism. Makes patient feel accepted
Views the world from another's inner frame of reference
facilitation encourage patient to say more, and to continue with the story
observe a certain action, feeling or statement and focus
confrontation
the person's attention on it. The nurse then gives
honest feedback about what was seen or felt
distancing using impersonal speech to put space between the self and a
threat
a type of verbal response where the nurse links events,
interpretation
makes associations or implies cause and then
expresses his/her own thoughts and feelings
While interviewing the patient, listen, talk
you need to
_______________more often than _.
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