ABAC NURS 1109 PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT EXAM 1 |
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | 2026 UPDATE | SOLVED
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Subjective data Answer - What a person says about themselves during history
taking
Objective data Answer - What you can see as the health professional observing
through inspection. Percussing, palpitating, and auscultation during the
physical examination
Mental disorder Answer - Apparent when a person's response is much greater
than what is expected to a traumatic life event
Organic disorder Answer - A disorder caused by a brain disease of a known
specific organic cause
Psychiatric mental disorders Answer - A disorder in which an organic etiology
has not yet been established
Consciousness Answer - Being aware of one's own existence, thoughts,
feelings, and of the environment (Is the most elementary of mental status
functions)
,Language Answer - Using the voice to communicate one's thoughts and
feelings (Is the basic tool of humans and has a heavy social impact on an
individual if lost)
Affect Answer - A temporary expression of feelings or state of mind
Mood Answer - A more durable and prolonged display of feeling that color the
entire emotional life
Orientation Answer - The awareness of the objective world in relation to self,
including person, place, and time
Attention Answer - The power of concentration and the ability to focus on one
specific thing thin with out being distracted by other stimuli
Memory Answer - The ability to lay down and store experiences and
perceptions for later recall
Remote memory Answer - Memory based on years Recent: Memory based on
day to day events
Abstract reasoning Answer - The pondering of a deeper meaning beyond what
is concrete and literal
Thought process Answer - The way a person thinks; The logical train of thought
Thought content Answer - What the person thinks (Specific ideas, beliefs, and
the use of words)
, Perceptions Answer - An awareness of objects through the five senses
Alert Answer - Awake or readily aroused; oriented, fully aware of external and
internal stimuli and respond appropriately; conducts meaning full interpersonal
interactions
Lethargic or somnolent Answer - Not fully alert drifts off to sleep when not
stimulated; can be aroused to name when called in normal voice but looks
drowsy, responds to questions or commands but thinking seems slow and
fuzzy, in att
Obtunded Answer - Sleeps most of time; difficult to arouse—needs loud shout
or vigorous shake; acts confused when is aroused; converses in monosyllables;
speech may be mumbled and incoherent; requires constant stimulation for
even marginal cooperation.
Stupor or semi-coma Answer - Spontaneously unconscious; responds only to
persistent and vigorous shake or pain; has appropriate motor response (i.e.,
withdraws hand to avoid pain); otherwise can only groan, mumble, or move
restlessly; reflex activity persists.
Coma Answer - Completely unconscious; no response to pain or any external
or internal stimuli (e.g., when suctioned, does not try to push the catheter
away); light coma has some reflex activity but no purposeful movement; deep
coma has no motor response.
Delirium (acute confusional state) Answer - Clouding of consciousness (dulled
cognition, impaired alertness); inattentive; incoherent conversation; impaired
recent memory and confabulatory for recent events; often agitated and having
visual hallucinations; disoriented, with confusion worse at night when
environmental stimuli are decreased.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | 2026 UPDATE | SOLVED
100% CORRECT
Subjective data Answer - What a person says about themselves during history
taking
Objective data Answer - What you can see as the health professional observing
through inspection. Percussing, palpitating, and auscultation during the
physical examination
Mental disorder Answer - Apparent when a person's response is much greater
than what is expected to a traumatic life event
Organic disorder Answer - A disorder caused by a brain disease of a known
specific organic cause
Psychiatric mental disorders Answer - A disorder in which an organic etiology
has not yet been established
Consciousness Answer - Being aware of one's own existence, thoughts,
feelings, and of the environment (Is the most elementary of mental status
functions)
,Language Answer - Using the voice to communicate one's thoughts and
feelings (Is the basic tool of humans and has a heavy social impact on an
individual if lost)
Affect Answer - A temporary expression of feelings or state of mind
Mood Answer - A more durable and prolonged display of feeling that color the
entire emotional life
Orientation Answer - The awareness of the objective world in relation to self,
including person, place, and time
Attention Answer - The power of concentration and the ability to focus on one
specific thing thin with out being distracted by other stimuli
Memory Answer - The ability to lay down and store experiences and
perceptions for later recall
Remote memory Answer - Memory based on years Recent: Memory based on
day to day events
Abstract reasoning Answer - The pondering of a deeper meaning beyond what
is concrete and literal
Thought process Answer - The way a person thinks; The logical train of thought
Thought content Answer - What the person thinks (Specific ideas, beliefs, and
the use of words)
, Perceptions Answer - An awareness of objects through the five senses
Alert Answer - Awake or readily aroused; oriented, fully aware of external and
internal stimuli and respond appropriately; conducts meaning full interpersonal
interactions
Lethargic or somnolent Answer - Not fully alert drifts off to sleep when not
stimulated; can be aroused to name when called in normal voice but looks
drowsy, responds to questions or commands but thinking seems slow and
fuzzy, in att
Obtunded Answer - Sleeps most of time; difficult to arouse—needs loud shout
or vigorous shake; acts confused when is aroused; converses in monosyllables;
speech may be mumbled and incoherent; requires constant stimulation for
even marginal cooperation.
Stupor or semi-coma Answer - Spontaneously unconscious; responds only to
persistent and vigorous shake or pain; has appropriate motor response (i.e.,
withdraws hand to avoid pain); otherwise can only groan, mumble, or move
restlessly; reflex activity persists.
Coma Answer - Completely unconscious; no response to pain or any external
or internal stimuli (e.g., when suctioned, does not try to push the catheter
away); light coma has some reflex activity but no purposeful movement; deep
coma has no motor response.
Delirium (acute confusional state) Answer - Clouding of consciousness (dulled
cognition, impaired alertness); inattentive; incoherent conversation; impaired
recent memory and confabulatory for recent events; often agitated and having
visual hallucinations; disoriented, with confusion worse at night when
environmental stimuli are decreased.
