NURS 6001 questions and answers
Roles of Professional Nurse - ✅✅1. Promote Help
2. Prevent Illness
3. Treat human response to health and illness
4. Advocate for individuals, family, community and population
Primary Prevention - ✅✅Activities to reduce the probability that a disease will develop
(education or early detection to prevent illness)
Secondary Prevention - ✅✅Early detection and treatment of disease: goal is to block progression of
disease or an injury from developing
(something has happened-stop progression)
Tertiary Prevention - ✅✅Rehabilitative therapies and the monitoring of health care processes to
prevent complications or to prevent further illness or injury
(chronic process)
Health Assessment Purpose - ✅✅1. Gathering of information about the health status of the patient
2. Analyzing and synthesizing the data
3. Make judgements about nursing interventions based on findings
4. evaluate the patient care outcomes
Nursing Process
(ADPIE) - ✅✅-Assessment
-Diagnosis
-Planning
-Implementation
-Evaluation
, Step 1: Assessment - ✅✅Establishes baseline
-review health history
-conduct physical assessment
-organize patient information (Functional Health Patterns)
Step 2: Diagnosis - ✅✅Problem Statement-prioritize
-NANDA label
-related to statement (patho behind)
-evidence (signs and symptoms)(objective and subjective)
Subjective Information - ✅✅What the patient says
Objective Information - ✅✅What you see or measure to support the problem
Types of Assessment - ✅✅-Emergency
-Focused
-Comprehensive
Emergency Assessment - ✅✅involves a life-threatening or unstable condition
Focused Assessment - ✅✅Based on patient's health issue-focuses on system of problem
Comprehensive Assessment - ✅✅Complete health history and physical assessment- head to toe
Modes of Communication - ✅✅1. Verbal
2. Nonverbal
3. Special Considerations
Roles of Professional Nurse - ✅✅1. Promote Help
2. Prevent Illness
3. Treat human response to health and illness
4. Advocate for individuals, family, community and population
Primary Prevention - ✅✅Activities to reduce the probability that a disease will develop
(education or early detection to prevent illness)
Secondary Prevention - ✅✅Early detection and treatment of disease: goal is to block progression of
disease or an injury from developing
(something has happened-stop progression)
Tertiary Prevention - ✅✅Rehabilitative therapies and the monitoring of health care processes to
prevent complications or to prevent further illness or injury
(chronic process)
Health Assessment Purpose - ✅✅1. Gathering of information about the health status of the patient
2. Analyzing and synthesizing the data
3. Make judgements about nursing interventions based on findings
4. evaluate the patient care outcomes
Nursing Process
(ADPIE) - ✅✅-Assessment
-Diagnosis
-Planning
-Implementation
-Evaluation
, Step 1: Assessment - ✅✅Establishes baseline
-review health history
-conduct physical assessment
-organize patient information (Functional Health Patterns)
Step 2: Diagnosis - ✅✅Problem Statement-prioritize
-NANDA label
-related to statement (patho behind)
-evidence (signs and symptoms)(objective and subjective)
Subjective Information - ✅✅What the patient says
Objective Information - ✅✅What you see or measure to support the problem
Types of Assessment - ✅✅-Emergency
-Focused
-Comprehensive
Emergency Assessment - ✅✅involves a life-threatening or unstable condition
Focused Assessment - ✅✅Based on patient's health issue-focuses on system of problem
Comprehensive Assessment - ✅✅Complete health history and physical assessment- head to toe
Modes of Communication - ✅✅1. Verbal
2. Nonverbal
3. Special Considerations
