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ABAC NURS 1109 Physical Assessment exam 1
Questions and Correct Answers | Latest Update
Subjective data Ans: What a person says about themselves during
history taking
Objective data Ans: What you can see as the health professional
observing through inspection. Percussing, palpitating, and auscultation
during the physical examination
Mental disorder Ans: Apparent when a person's response is much greater
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than what is expected to a traumatic life event
Organic disorder Ans: A disorder caused by a brain disease of a known
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specific organic cause
Psychiatric mental disorders Ans: A disorder in which an organic
etiology has not yet been established
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Consciousness Ans: Being aware of one's own existence, thoughts,
feelings, and of the environment (Is the most elementary of mental status
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functions)
Language Ans: 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 Ans: A temporary expression of feelings or state of mind
Mood Ans: A more durable and prolonged display of feeling that color
the entire emotional life
Orientation Ans: The awareness of the objective world in relation to self,
including person, place, and time
Attention Ans: The power of concentration and the ability to focus on
one specific thing thin with out being distracted by other stimuli
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Memory Ans: The ability to lay down and store experiences and
perceptions for later recall
Remote memory Ans: Memory based on years Recent: Memory based on
day to day events
Abstract reasoning Ans: The pondering of a deeper meaning beyond
what is concrete and literal
Thought process Ans: The way a person thinks; The logical train of
thought
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Thought content Ans: What the person thinks (Specific ideas, beliefs,
and the use of words)
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Perceptions Ans: An awareness of objects through the five senses
Alert Ans: Awake or readily aroused; oriented, fully aware of external
and internal stimuli and respond appropriately; conducts meaning full
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interpersonal interactions
Lethargic or somnolent Ans: Not fully alert drifts off to sleep when not
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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 Ans: 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 Ans: 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.
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Coma Ans: 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) Ans: 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.
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Dysphagia (Disorder of Voice) Ans: Difficulty or discomfort in talking,
with abnormal pitch or volume, caused by laryngeal disease Voice sounds
hoarse or whispered, but articulation and language are intact
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Dysarthria (Disorder of Articulation) Ans: Distorted speech sounds;
speech may sound unintelligible; basic language (word choice, grammar,
comprehension) intact
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Aphasia (Disorder of Language comprehension and production secondary
to brain damage) Ans: True language disturbance; defect in word choice
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and grammar or defect in comprehension; defect is in higher integrative
language processing.
Global aphasia Ans: The most common and severe form Spontaneous
speech is absent or reduced to a few stereotyped words or sounds.
Comprehension is absent or reduced to only the person's own name and
a few select words. Repetition, reading, and writing are severely impaired
Prognosis for language recovery is poor Caused by a large lesion that
damages most of combined anterior and posterior language areas.
Broca aphasia Ans: Expressive aphasia Cannot express himself or herself
using language Characterized by non-fluent, dysarthric, and effortful
speech Speech is mostly nouning and verbs (high-content words) with
few grammatic fillers, termed agrammatic or telegraphic speech
ABAC NURS 1109 Physical Assessment exam 1
Questions and Correct Answers | Latest Update
Subjective data Ans: What a person says about themselves during
history taking
Objective data Ans: What you can see as the health professional
observing through inspection. Percussing, palpitating, and auscultation
during the physical examination
Mental disorder Ans: Apparent when a person's response is much greater
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than what is expected to a traumatic life event
Organic disorder Ans: A disorder caused by a brain disease of a known
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specific organic cause
Psychiatric mental disorders Ans: A disorder in which an organic
etiology has not yet been established
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Consciousness Ans: Being aware of one's own existence, thoughts,
feelings, and of the environment (Is the most elementary of mental status
©
functions)
Language Ans: 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 Ans: A temporary expression of feelings or state of mind
Mood Ans: A more durable and prolonged display of feeling that color
the entire emotional life
Orientation Ans: The awareness of the objective world in relation to self,
including person, place, and time
Attention Ans: The power of concentration and the ability to focus on
one specific thing thin with out being distracted by other stimuli
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Memory Ans: The ability to lay down and store experiences and
perceptions for later recall
Remote memory Ans: Memory based on years Recent: Memory based on
day to day events
Abstract reasoning Ans: The pondering of a deeper meaning beyond
what is concrete and literal
Thought process Ans: The way a person thinks; The logical train of
thought
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Thought content Ans: What the person thinks (Specific ideas, beliefs,
and the use of words)
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Perceptions Ans: An awareness of objects through the five senses
Alert Ans: Awake or readily aroused; oriented, fully aware of external
and internal stimuli and respond appropriately; conducts meaning full
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interpersonal interactions
Lethargic or somnolent Ans: Not fully alert drifts off to sleep when not
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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 Ans: 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 Ans: 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.
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Coma Ans: 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) Ans: 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.
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Dysphagia (Disorder of Voice) Ans: Difficulty or discomfort in talking,
with abnormal pitch or volume, caused by laryngeal disease Voice sounds
hoarse or whispered, but articulation and language are intact
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Dysarthria (Disorder of Articulation) Ans: Distorted speech sounds;
speech may sound unintelligible; basic language (word choice, grammar,
comprehension) intact
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Aphasia (Disorder of Language comprehension and production secondary
to brain damage) Ans: True language disturbance; defect in word choice
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and grammar or defect in comprehension; defect is in higher integrative
language processing.
Global aphasia Ans: The most common and severe form Spontaneous
speech is absent or reduced to a few stereotyped words or sounds.
Comprehension is absent or reduced to only the person's own name and
a few select words. Repetition, reading, and writing are severely impaired
Prognosis for language recovery is poor Caused by a large lesion that
damages most of combined anterior and posterior language areas.
Broca aphasia Ans: Expressive aphasia Cannot express himself or herself
using language Characterized by non-fluent, dysarthric, and effortful
speech Speech is mostly nouning and verbs (high-content words) with
few grammatic fillers, termed agrammatic or telegraphic speech
