NR509 WEEK 1 EXAM (ACTUAL EXAM)
WITH QUESTIONS WITH VERY
ELABORATED ANSWERS CORRECTRY WELL
ORGANIZED LATEST 2024 – 2025 ALREADY
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After the health history has been obtained and before beginning the physical
examination, the nurse should first ask the patient to:
A. Empty the bladder
B. Completely disrobe
C. lie on the exam table
D. Walk around the room - ANSWERS-A. Empty the bladder
During a complete health assessment, how would the nurse test the patient's
hearing?
A. Observing how the patient participates in normal conversation
B. Using the whispered voice test
,C. Using the Weber and Rinne tests
D. Testing with an audiometer - ANSWERS-B. Using the whispered voice test
A patient states, whenever I open my mouth real wide, I feel this popping
sensation in front of my ears. To further examine this, the nurse would;
A. Place the stethoscope over the temporomandibular joint and listen for bruits
B. Place the hands over his ears, and ask him to open his mouth really wide
C. Place on hand on his forehead and the other on his jaw, and ask him to open
his mouth
D. Place a finger on his temporomandibular joint and ask him to open and close
his mouth - ANSWERS-D. Place a finger on his temporomandibular joint and ask
him to open and close his mouth
The nurse has just completed an examination of a patient's extraocular muscles.
When documenting the findings, the nurse should document the assessment of
which cranial nerves/
A. II, III, VI
B. II, IV, V
C. III, IV, V
D. III, IV, VI - ANSWERS-D. III, IV, VI
When listening to a patients breath sounds, the nurse is unsure of a sound that is
heard. The nurses next action should be to
,A. Immediately notify the patients physician
B. Document the sound exactly as it was heard.
C. Validate the data by asking a coworker to listen to breath sounds
D. Assess it again in 20 minutes to note whether the sound is still present -
ANSWERS-C. Validate the data by asking a coworker to listen to breath sounds
The nurse is conducting a class for new graduate nurses. During the teaching
session, the nurse should keep in mind that novice nurses, without a background
of skills and experience from which to draw, are more likely to make their
decisions using:
A. Intuition
B. A set of rules
C. Articles in journals
D. Advice from supervisors - ANSWERS-b. A set of rules.
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 - ANSWERS-A. Objective
, A patient tells the nurse that he is very nervous, is nauseated and feels hot. These
types of data would be
A. Objective
B. Reflective
C. Subjective
D. Introspective - ANSWERS-C. Subjective
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 - ANSWERS-A. Data base
Expert nurses learn to attend to a pattern of assessment data and act without
consciously labeling it. These responses are referred to as:
A. Intuition
B. The nursing process
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