Nur 216 Exam Questions and Answers
What is a health assessment?
✓ ~~~ Assessing the whole patient, collecting health status data.
How do you define health?
✓ ~~~ Complete physical, social, and mental well-being.
How do you assess your client?
✓ ~~~ Using the ADPIE framework.
What is Healthy People 2030?
✓ ~~~ A framework to improve health and well-being.
What are the goals of Healthy People 2030?
✓ ~~~ 1. Attain healthy lives, 2. Eliminate disparities, 3. Create healthy environments, 4.
Promote healthy development, 5. Engage leadership.
What is the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)?
✓ ~~~ An organization that provides recommendations for preventive care.
What are the goals of the USPSTF?
✓ ~~~ To provide evidence-based recommendations for preventive services.
What is active listening?
✓ ~~~ Attentive and engaged listening to the speaker.
,What are broad opening questions?
✓ ~~~ Questions that encourage the speaker to provide detailed responses.
What is clarification?
✓ ~~~ Seeking further information or understanding from the speaker.
What is empathy?
✓ ~~~ Understanding and sharing the feelings of the speaker.
What is respect?
✓ ~~~ Treating the speaker with dignity and valuing their perspective.
What is exploring?
✓ ~~~ Delving deeper into a topic or issue raised by the speaker.
What is facilitation?
✓ ~~~ Encouraging and supporting the speaker's communication.
What is focusing?
✓ ~~~ Maintaining attention on the main topic or issue.
What are verbal and nonverbal communication?
✓ ~~~ Verbal: spoken or written words; Nonverbal: body language, gestures, facial
expressions.
What are effective communication techniques?
, ✓ ~~~ Active listening, active observing, broad opening questions, clarification,
confrontation, empathy, respect, focusing, facilitation, reflecting/stating the observed,
transitional statements, silence, and summarizing.
Why is communicating with the patient important?
✓ ~~~ To gather information for a health history and provide effective care.
What are barriers to communication?
✓ ~~~ Leading the patient, asking too many questions, not allowing enough response time,
using medical jargon, assuming what the patient is saying, using clichés, offering false
reassurance, specifically asking 'why' questions, changing the subject inappropriately,
giving opinions, stereotyping, using patronizing language.
How do you communicate with hearing impaired patients?
✓ ~~~ Use written communication, sign language interpreters, or assistive devices.
How do you communicate with visually impaired patients?
✓ ~~~ Use verbal communication, provide written materials in large print or braille, or use
assistive devices.
How do you communicate with aphasiac patients?
✓ ~~~ Use alternative communication methods such as gestures, pictures, or
communication boards.
How do you communicate with cognitively impaired patients?
✓ ~~~ Use simple and clear language, repetition, and visual aids.
How do you communicate with aggressive or challenging patients?
✓ ~~~ Remain calm, use non-confrontational language, and establish clear boundaries.