Nursing 251 Exam 1/ Strategies Review of
Key Quizzes & Correct Answers
Nursing Process - Correct answerIdentifying and treating human responses to
actual or potential health problems; continual; revise as necessary
Nursing Process 5 Steps - Correct answerAssessment, Diagnosis, Planning,
Implementation, Evaluation
Nursing Diagnosis - Correct answerClinical judgement about clients, family,
community responses to actual or potential health problems
Assessment - Correct answerCollecting subjective and objective data; establish
data base with client's wellness, health practices, past illnesses, and establish goals
Subjective Data - Correct answerSensations or symptoms, perceptions, desires,
preferences, beliefs, ideas, values, and personal information stated by the patient
Objective Data - Correct answerPhysical characteristics, body functions (heart
rate), appearance, behavior, measurements, results of labs; observed by examiner
Types of Assessment - Correct answerInitial comprehensive, ongoing or partial,
focused or problem-oriented, and emergency
Initial Comprehensive Assessment - Correct answerOccurs when clients first
presents to health care system; collect both subjective and objective
Ongoing or Partial Assessment - Correct answerOccurs after comprehensive
database is established; reassessment of initial problem looking for improvement or
deterioration
Focused or Problem-Oriented Assessment - Correct answerOccurs because of a
specific health concern
Emergency Assessment - Correct answerOccurs when life saving action needs
to be taken; ABC's (airway, breathing, cardiac)
Culture - Correct answerThe learned, shared, and transmitted values, beliefs,
norms, and way of life of a particular group that guides their thinking, decisions, and
action in patterned ways
, Cultural Sensitivity - Correct answerRecognize that some cultural groups have
definitions of health and illness, as well as practices that attempt to promote health and
cure illness, that may differ from your own
Cultural Competence - Correct answerBe willing to modify health care delivery in
keeping with the client's cultural background; Do not expect all members of one cultural
group to behave in exactly the same way
Spiritual Assessment - Correct answerAn RN may conduct this to understand the
patient's source of strength and guidance and to respect their rituals and beliefs
Spirituality Impacts Care - Correct answerChanging the course of treatment;
health care providers may need to modify treatment plans
Stereotype - Correct answerA simplified generally inflexible conception of the
members of a group or subgroup
Ethnocentrism - Correct answerA tendency to view people unconsciously by
using your own group and your own customs as standards for all judgements
Standard Precautions - Correct answerGuidelines used to prevent the passage of
pathogens; MUST BE USED AT ALL TIMES
HIPAA - Correct answerHealth Insurance Portability and Accountability Act;
protection for health information health insurance coverage
4 Physical Assessment Techniques - Correct answerInspection, palpation,
percussion, auscultation
Inspection - Correct answerDO THIS FIRST; The use of senses to observe the
general status of the client and note normal/ abnormal aspects of specific systems
Palpation - Correct answerThe use of tactile sense (touch and feel) to further
delineate visual findings, or to identify findings not seen
Palpation Palmer Surface - Correct answerUsed to feel vibrations
Palpation Dorsal Surface - Correct answerTemperature
Light Palpation - Correct answerLess than 1cm little to no depression (pulses,
skin texture, moisture, temperature)
Key Quizzes & Correct Answers
Nursing Process - Correct answerIdentifying and treating human responses to
actual or potential health problems; continual; revise as necessary
Nursing Process 5 Steps - Correct answerAssessment, Diagnosis, Planning,
Implementation, Evaluation
Nursing Diagnosis - Correct answerClinical judgement about clients, family,
community responses to actual or potential health problems
Assessment - Correct answerCollecting subjective and objective data; establish
data base with client's wellness, health practices, past illnesses, and establish goals
Subjective Data - Correct answerSensations or symptoms, perceptions, desires,
preferences, beliefs, ideas, values, and personal information stated by the patient
Objective Data - Correct answerPhysical characteristics, body functions (heart
rate), appearance, behavior, measurements, results of labs; observed by examiner
Types of Assessment - Correct answerInitial comprehensive, ongoing or partial,
focused or problem-oriented, and emergency
Initial Comprehensive Assessment - Correct answerOccurs when clients first
presents to health care system; collect both subjective and objective
Ongoing or Partial Assessment - Correct answerOccurs after comprehensive
database is established; reassessment of initial problem looking for improvement or
deterioration
Focused or Problem-Oriented Assessment - Correct answerOccurs because of a
specific health concern
Emergency Assessment - Correct answerOccurs when life saving action needs
to be taken; ABC's (airway, breathing, cardiac)
Culture - Correct answerThe learned, shared, and transmitted values, beliefs,
norms, and way of life of a particular group that guides their thinking, decisions, and
action in patterned ways
, Cultural Sensitivity - Correct answerRecognize that some cultural groups have
definitions of health and illness, as well as practices that attempt to promote health and
cure illness, that may differ from your own
Cultural Competence - Correct answerBe willing to modify health care delivery in
keeping with the client's cultural background; Do not expect all members of one cultural
group to behave in exactly the same way
Spiritual Assessment - Correct answerAn RN may conduct this to understand the
patient's source of strength and guidance and to respect their rituals and beliefs
Spirituality Impacts Care - Correct answerChanging the course of treatment;
health care providers may need to modify treatment plans
Stereotype - Correct answerA simplified generally inflexible conception of the
members of a group or subgroup
Ethnocentrism - Correct answerA tendency to view people unconsciously by
using your own group and your own customs as standards for all judgements
Standard Precautions - Correct answerGuidelines used to prevent the passage of
pathogens; MUST BE USED AT ALL TIMES
HIPAA - Correct answerHealth Insurance Portability and Accountability Act;
protection for health information health insurance coverage
4 Physical Assessment Techniques - Correct answerInspection, palpation,
percussion, auscultation
Inspection - Correct answerDO THIS FIRST; The use of senses to observe the
general status of the client and note normal/ abnormal aspects of specific systems
Palpation - Correct answerThe use of tactile sense (touch and feel) to further
delineate visual findings, or to identify findings not seen
Palpation Palmer Surface - Correct answerUsed to feel vibrations
Palpation Dorsal Surface - Correct answerTemperature
Light Palpation - Correct answerLess than 1cm little to no depression (pulses,
skin texture, moisture, temperature)
