Nursing 1140 Physical Assessment Jarvis
Exam 1 Questions With Correct Answers
Assessment - answer✔✔The collection of subjective and objective data about a patient's health
Subjective Data - answer✔✔Information provided by the affected individual
Objective Data - answer✔✔Information obtained by the healthcare provider through observation
and examination
Database - answer✔✔The totality of information available about a patient, including
subjective/objective data, medical record and laboratory studies. Used to make a judgement or
diagnosis.
6 Phases of Nursing Process - answer✔✔1. Assessment
2. Diagnosis
3. Outcome identification
4. Planning
5. Implementation
6. Evaluation
First-Level Priority Problems - answer✔✔Emergent, life threatening, and immediate problems
(like ABCV)
Second-Level Priority Problems - answer✔✔Problems that require prompt intervention to
prevent further deterioration and may include a mental status change, acute pain, or abnormal
laboratory values
Third-Level Priority Problems - answer✔✔important to the patient's health but can be addressed
after more urgent problems
Airways
Breathing
Circulation
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Vital sign concerns - answer✔✔ABCV
Knowledge Skills Attitudes - answer✔✔KSA
PQRSTU - answer✔✔Provocative or Palliative
Quality or Quantity
Region or Radiation
Severity Scale
Timing
Understand Patient's Perception
CAGE - answer✔✔Assessment of alcohol use
Vitals - answer✔✔Pain, pulse, temp, O2, resp, BP, HR
Brady - answer✔✔slow
Tachy - answer✔✔fast
Nystagmus - answer✔✔Quiver in eye (during tracking of objects)
Tinnitus - answer✔✔Ringing in ear
Vertigo - answer✔✔Dizziness
FLACC - answer✔✔Nonverbal pain assessment tool for infants and young children under 3
years
Wong-Baker - answer✔✔pain scale using faces
EMR - answer✔✔Electronic Medical Records
Petechiae - answer✔✔Tiny punctate hemorrhages, caused by bleeding from superficial
capillaries; will not blanch
Purpura - answer✔✔a rash of purple spots on the skin caused by internal bleeding from small
blood vessels
Cyanosis - answer✔✔blue coloration indicative of poor perfusion
Clubbing - answer✔✔When the nail angle is greater than 160 degrees d/t poor oxygen perfusion.
Common in smokers. (Think bubble nails)
Ecchymosis - answer✔✔Bruising