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NU 518 EXAM 1 2024/2025 WITH 300
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS/
NU 518 EXAM 1 REVIEW QUESTIONS
WITH 100% CORRECT VERIFIED
ANSWERS (LATEST!)
After completing an initial assessment of a patient, the nurse has charted that his respirations are eupneic and his pulse is 58 beats per minute. These types of data
would be:
A Objective.B Reflective.C Subjective.D Introspective. - ANSWER-A
Jason is a 41-year-old electrician who presents to the clinic for evaluation of shortness of breath. The shortness of breath occurs with exertion and improves with rest. It has been going on for several months and initially occurred only a couple of times a day with strenuous exertion; however, it has started to occur with minimal exertion and is happening more than a dozen times per day. The shortness of breath lasts for less than 5 minutes at a time. He has no cough, chest pressure, chest pain, swelling in his feet, palpitations, orthopnea, or paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea.Which of the following symptom attributes was not addressed in this description?
- Severity
- Setting in which the symptom occurs
- Timing
- Associated manifestations - ANSWER-A 1 / 4
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The following information is recorded in the health history: "The patient has had abdominal pain for 1 week. The pain lasts for 30 minutes at a time; it comes and goes. The severity is 7 to 9 on a scale of 1 to 10. It is accompanied by nausea and vomiting. It is located in the midepigastric area." Which of these categories does it belong to?
- Chief complaint
- Present illness
- Personal and social history
- Review of systems - ANSWER-B
The following information is recorded in the health history: "I feel really tired." Which category does it belong to?
- Chief complaint
- Present illness
- Personal and social history
- Review of systems - ANSWER-A
You are interviewing an elderly woman in the ambulatory setting and trying to get more information about her urinary symptoms. Which of the following techniques is not a component of adaptive questioning?
- Directed questioning: starting with the general and proceeding to the specific in
- Reassuring the patient that the urinary symptoms are benign and that she doesn't
- Offering the patient multiple choices in order to clarify the character of the
a manner that does not make the patient give a yes/no answer
need to worry about it being a sign of cancer
urinary symptoms that she is experiencing 2 / 4
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- Asking her to tell you exactly what she means when she states that she has a
urinary tract Infection - ANSWER-B
The patients record, laboratory studies, objective data, and subjective data combine
to form the:
a Data base.B Admitting data.C Financial statement.D Discharge summary. - ANSWER-A
The nurse is conducting a class on priority setting for a group of new graduate nurses. Which is an example of a first-level priority problem?A Patient with postoperative pain B Newly diagnosed patient with diabetes who needs diabetic teaching C Individual with a small laceration on the sole of the foot D Individual with shortness of breath and respiratory distress - ANSWER-D
Which critical thinking skill helps the nurse see relationships among the data?A Validation B Clustering related cues C Identifying gaps in data D Distinguishing relevant from irrelevant - ANSWER-B
The following information is recorded in the health history: "Patient denies chest pain, palpitations, orthopnea, and paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea." Which category does it belong to?
- Chief complaint 3 / 4
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- Present illness
- Personal and social history
- Review of systems - ANSWER-D
The following information is best placed in which category?"The patient has had three cesarean sections."
- Adult illnesses
- Surgeries
- Obstetrics/gynecology
- Psychiatric - ANSWER-B
For which of the following patients would a comprehensive health history be appropriate?
- A new patient with the chief complaint of "I sprained my ankle"
- An established patient with the chief complaint of "I have an upper respiratory
- A new patient with the chief complaint of "I am here to establish care"
- A new patient with the chief complaint of "I cut my hand" - ANSWER-C
infection"
The components of the health history include all of the following except which one?
- Review of systems
- Thorax and lungs
- Present illness
- Personal and social items - ANSWER-B
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