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Nurs251 final Exam Questions and
Answers |100% Pass
complete (baseline) - Answer✔✔--total health history and full physical examination describing current
and past health state
-example: checkup or annual appointment
focused - Answer✔✔--health history that is problem-centered: limited, targeted, mainly 1 problem or
body system
-example: patient presents with a rash, broken bone, etc.
episodic or emergency - Answer✔✔--health history that is urgent, rapid collection of information with
lifesaving measures
-not much time, really just need to do quick assessment
-example: heart attack
first-level priority (top priority) - Answer✔✔--priority that is emergent, life threatening, and immediate
second-level priority - Answer✔✔--priority that is next in urgency, requiring attention so as to avoid
further deterioration
-example: infection, diabetic (check their sugar/give insulin)
third-level priority - Answer✔✔--priority that is important to patient's health but can be addressed after
more urgent problems are addressed
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collaborative problems - Answer✔✔--approach to treatment involves multiple disciplines
health history components - Answer✔✔--biographic data (name, age, gender, relationship status, ethnic
origin, occupation, language)
-reason for seeking care
-history of present illness
-past medical history
-family history-genogram
-review of systems with health promotion activities
-functional assessment
symptom - Answer✔✔--subjective sensation that the person feels from the disorder
sign - Answer✔✔--objective abnormality that you detect on physical exam or diagnostic testing
introducing the interview - Answer✔✔--keep this part of the interview short and formal
working phase - Answer✔✔--data-gathering phase
-open ended and closed ended questions
open ended - Answer✔✔-type of question that asks for narrative information
closed - Answer✔✔-type of question that asks for specific information leading to a forced choice (yes or
no)
facilitation - Answer✔✔--patient leads and reactions obtained from interviewer
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-encourages patient to say more
silence - Answer✔✔--patient leads and reactions obtained from interviewer
-directed attentiveness
reflection - Answer✔✔--patient leads and reactions obtained from interviewer
-echoes to help express meaning
empathy - Answer✔✔--patient leads and reaction obtained from interviewer
-names a feeling and allows its expansion
clarification - Answer✔✔--patient leads and reaction obtained from interviewer
-asking for confirmation
confrontation - Answer✔✔--interviewer leads and expression of own thoughts based on obtained
information
-clarifying inconsistent information
interpretation - Answer✔✔--interviewer leads and expression of own thoughts based on obtained
information
-makes association to identify cause or conclusion
explanation - Answer✔✔--interviewer leads and expression of own thoughts based on obtained
information
-informing person by sharing factual and objective information
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