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NURS 142 EXAM 1 NEWEST 2025 ACTUAL EXAM
COMPLETE 100 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
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What are the four broad goals of nursing?
ANSWER: promote health, prevent illness, treat human
responses to illness, and advocate.
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What is an assessment?
ANSWER: a systematic data collection that predicts health risks
and identifies health promotion.
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What are the four types of nursing assessment?
ANSWER: initial, ongoing, emergency, focused.
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What is Maslow’s hierarchy of needs from bottom to top?
ANSWER: physiological, safety (includes health and well-
being), love/belonging, esteem, self-actualization.
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What is the ABCCS assessment?
ANSWER: airway, breathing, circulation, consciousness, safety.
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What are the steps to an ABCCS assessment?ANSWER: 1. Airway: Is the patient’s airway compromised? 2.
Breathing: Assess rate of breathing as well as difficulty, assess
effectiveness of oxygen delivery, take blood oxygen percentage.
3. Circulation: Assess radial pulse first then carotid pulse, skin
color, moisture, and temperature. 4. Consciousness: Notice if
they are drowsy, alert, etc. 5. Safety: Check for allergies,
oxygen saturation, brakes on bed, bed rail, call bell, check for dysphagia (difficulty swallowing).
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What might be included in a focused respiratory exam?
ANSWER: patient history of smoking, family history of
pulmonary disease, signs and symptoms, O2 percentage, respiratory rate.
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What might be included in a focused cardiovascular and peripheral vascular system assessment?
ANSWER: data about the client’s diet, exercise, weight, BMI,
stress levels, smoking history, family history, pulse.
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What is subjective data?
ANSWER: data obtained from the patient and/or family
members.
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What is a symptom?
ANSWER: subjective data that the patient reports.
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What is a primary source vs. a secondary source?
ANSWER: the patient is the primary source, the patient’s
family/caregivers are secondary.
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What is objective data?
ANSWER: something you can observe and measure.
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What are several areas for a comprehensive health history?