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NUR 505 Exam 1 Questions With Verified
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Stereotype - answer✔fixed image of any group that denies the potential of originality or
individuality within the group; Phase 1: categorization; phase 2: beliefs are used when
interacting with this person or group
RESPECT model - answer✔Rapport
Empathy
Support
Partnership
Explanations
Cultural Competence
Trust
ROS - answer✔review of systems; an inventory of specific body systems designed to document
current or past symptoms; not physical exam
problem list - answer✔created after subjective and objective data has been organized; all
pertinent data and exam findings, illustrations, lab data, imaging studies, and prior diagnoses
are reviewed to develop problem list in form of running log with: problem number, date of
onset, description of problem, and date problem was resolved
Assessment (diagnosis) - answer✔develop assessment for each of the problems in problem list;
most severe listed first; must be codable using ICD 10 codes; state whether improving,
worsening, or resolved; include differential diagnoses
plan - answer✔diagnostics to be performed or ordered, therapeutic treatment plan with
rationale, and patient education
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Pregnancy: PE & history taking - answer✔include gravidity/parity, menstrual/OBGYN hx, and
how they are adjusting to pregnancy; include fundal height, fetal HR, pelvic measurements, and
uterine size in physical examinations
Older adults: PE & history taking - answer✔add community and family support systems,
functional assessment; note skin lesions, baldness/thinning of hair, chest shape changes,
muscle mass/posture change, cognitive function, gait and balance
Tanner Stage - answer✔puberty changes; a scale of physical development in children and
adolescents that measures development of primary and secondary sex characteristics
When are children considered dependable historians - answer✔age 7
HEEADSSS - answer✔Adolescent screening tool;
Home
Education and employment
Eating
Activities
Drugs
Sexuality
Suicide and depression
Safety
PACES - answer✔adolescent screening tool;
Parents/peers
accidents/alcohol/drugs
Cigarettes
emotional issues
school/sexuality
CRAFFT - answer✔6-item screen for alcohol or drugs in adolescents, 14-18
(C=car, R=relax, A=alone, F=forget, F= family or friends, T= trouble)
Infants: PE & history taking - answer✔add birth hx, growth trajectory, developmental
milestones, diet (breast fed/formula fed), sleep injury prevention; include head circumference,
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fontanels, molding, quality of cry, primitive reflexes, gross and fine motor development,
speech/language, cognitive, social/emotional
CAGE - answer✔screening for alcoholism; cut down, annoyed, guilty, eye opener
HITS - answer✔screening tool for domestic violence; (hurt-insult- threaten-scream)
partner violence screen - answer✔Have you been hit, kicked, punched or otherwise hurt by
someone within the past year?
Do you feel safe in your current relationship?
Is there a partner from a previous relationship who is making you feel unsafe now?
FICA screening - answer✔spirituality screening (faith/belief/meaning, importance/influence,
community, address/action in care)
5Ps sexual history - answer✔-Partners
-Pregnancy prevention
-Protection STIs
-Practices
-Past hx STIs
transmission-based precautions - answer✔second tier/ in addition to standard precautions
airborne: chickenpox, flu, covid, viral meningitis, measles
droplet: flu, covid, meningitis, RSV, rubella, pertussis, strep
contact: MDRO, mono, gonorrhea
pneumatic attachment of otoscope - answer✔Used to assess the mobility of the Tympanic
Membrane.
diaphragm - answer✔best transmits high pitched sounds (second heart sound)
bell - answer✔frequency varies with amount of pressure exerted
light pressure: low sounds
firm pressure: converts to diaphragm piece
tympany - answer✔loud, high, drumlike
commonly heard in gastric bubble
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