2024 NUR155 Psychology Practice Exam With Answers (280 Solved Questions)

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Psychological - The internal variable dimension that includes mind-body interactions like
emotional responses to stress that affect body function. Self- Concept is another one.
Cognitive - The internal variable that includes lifestyle, which refers to general way of living
for a person like their living conditions and patterns of behavior, which can be positive or
negative.
Spiritual and religious beliefs like that Jehovah Witnesses oppose blood transfusions.
External variables - Variables Influencing Health Status, Beliefs, and Practices:
The type of variable that includes physical environment, standards of living, family and
Cultural Beliefs, and social support networks.
Physical environment - External Variables/health Status, Beliefs, and Practices:
Radiation, chemicals used to control weeds and plant diseases, the greenhouse effect, x-ray,
acid rain, ect...
Standards of living - External Variables/health Status, Beliefs, and Practices:
Occupation, income, and education, hygiene, food habits, and ability to seek healthcare
advice.
Family and cultural beliefs - External Variables/health Status, Beliefs, and Practices:
Family passes on patterns of daily living and lifestyle to offspring. Once abused as a child
man might grow up and abuse his own children.
Social support networks - External Variables/health Status, Beliefs, and Practices:

Having support from family, friends, or confidant along with job satisfaction helps people
avoid illness.
Acute Illness - Characterized by severe symptoms of relatively short duration.
Symptoms appear abruptly and subside quickly
May or may not require health care intervention- ex. appendicitis requires surgical
intervention, but colds subside without medical intervention or with help of over the counter
meds.
Chronic Illness - Lasts for extended periods of time 6 months or longer and often for
persons entire life.
Has slow onset
Periods of "remission" and "exacerbation"
Ex: heart and lung disease, diabetes mellitus.
Effects of illness - Privacy, Autonomy, Financial Burden, Changes in lifestyles.
Impact on the client - Effects of Illness: Who is impacted based on the information below?
Behavioral and emotional changes
Self concept and body image changes
Lifestyle changes
Impact on the Family - Effects of Illness: Who is impacted based on the information below?
Depends On: Member of the family who is ill
Seriousness and length of the illness
Cultural and social customs the family follows
Using silence - Therapeutic Communication Techniques:

Accepting pauses or sliences that may extend for several seconds or minutes without
interjecting any verbal response
Providing general leads - Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
Using statements or questions that...
* encourage the client to verbalize
* choose a topic of conversation
* and facilitate continued verbalization
Being specific and tentative - Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
Making statements that are specific rather than general, and tentative rather than absolute
using open-ended questions - Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
Asking broad questions that lead or invite the client to explore (elaborate, clarify, describe,
compare or illustrate) thoughts or feelings; invite answers that are longer than one or two
words
using touch - Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
Providing appropriate forms of touch to reinforce caring feelings; be sensitive to
differences in attitudes and practices of clients and self
restating or paraphrasing - Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
Actively listening for the client's basic message then repeating those thoughts and/or
feelings in similar words
seeing clarification - Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
A method of making the client's broad overall meaning of the message more understandable;
to clarify the message or confess confusion
perception checking or seeking consensual validation - Therapeutic Communication
Techniques:
A method similar to clarifying that verifies the meaning of specific words rather than the
overall meaning of a message

offering self - Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
Suggesting one's presence, interest, or wish to understand the client without making any
demands or attaching conditions
giving information - Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
Providing in simple terms and direct manner, specific, factual information the client may or
may not request
acknowledging - Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
Giving recognition, in a nonjudgmental way, of a change in behavior, an effort the client has
made, or a contribution to a communication
clarifying time or sequence - Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
Helping the client clarify an event, situation, or happening in relationship to time
presenting reality - Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
Helping the client to differentiate the real from the unreal
focusing - Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
Helping the client expand on and develop a topic of importance
reflecting - Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
Directing ideas, feelings, questions, or content back to clients to enable them to explore
their own ideas and feelings about a situation
summarizing and planning - Therapeutic Communication Techniques:
Stating the main points of a discussion to clarify the relevant points discussed
stereotyping - Barriers to Communication:
Offering generalized and oversimplified beliefs about groups of people that are based on
experiences too limited to be valid
agreeing and disagreeing - Barriers to Communication:
Implies that the client is either right or wrong and that the nurse is in a position to judge this

being defensive - Barriers to Communication:
Attempting to protect a person or health care services from negative comments
challenging - Barriers to Communication:
Giving a response that makes clients prove their statement or point of view
probing - Barriers to Communication:
Asking for more information chiefly out of curiosity rather than with the intent to assist the
client
testing - Barriers to Communication:
Asking questions that make the client admit to something
rejecting - Barriers to Communication:
Refusing to discuss certain topics with the client
changing topics and subjects - Barriers to Communication:
Directing the communication into areas of self interest rather than considering the client's
concerns is often a self-protective response to a topic that causes anxiety
unwarranted reassurance - Barriers to Communication:
Using cliches or comforting statements of advice as a means to reassure the client
passing judgment - Barriers to Communication:
Giving opinions and approving or disapproving responses, moralizing, or implying one's own
values
giving common advice - Barriers to Communication:
Telling the client what to do
SBAR - S - situation
B - background
A - assessment

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R - recommendation
Communication - -Any means of exchanging information or feelings
-Consists of verbal and nonverbal messages
Pace and intonation - Verbal Communication:
The manner of speech, as in the rate or rhythm and tone.
Simplicity - Verbal Communication:
The use of commonly understood words
Clarity and brevity - Verbal Communication:
A message that is direct and simple, saying precisely what is meant, and using the fewest
words necessary
Timing & relevance - Verbal Communication:
Needs to be appropriate to ensure that words are heard and needs to relate to the person
or the person's interest or concerns
Adaptability - Verbal Communication:
What is said and how it is said needs to be individualized and carefully considered
Credibility - Verbal Communication:
Worthiness of belief, trustworthiness, and reliability
Humor - Verbal Communication:
Can be a positive and powerful tool but must be used with care
Body Language - Another name for nonverbal communication; includes gestures, body
movements, use of touch, and physical appearance (including adornment).
Personal appearance - Factors of nonverbal communication:
Clothing and adornments can be sources of information about a person.

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Posture and gait - Factors of nonverbal communication
The way people walk and carry themselves is often a reliable indicator of self-concept,
current mood, and health.
Facial expression - Factors of nonverbal communication:
How the face expresses emotion.
Gestures - Factors of nonverbal communication:
Hand and body movements may emphasize and clarify the spoken word, may also occur
without words.
Therapeutic communication - Communication that promotes understanding and can help
establish a constructive relationship between the nurse and the client
attentive listening - Therapeutic communication:
Listening actively with all the senses as apposed to listening with just the ear; requires
energy and concentration
5 actions of physical attending - Therapeutic communication:
1. face the person squarely
2. adopt an open posture
3. lean toward the person
4. maintain good eye contact
5. try to be relatively relaxed
Situation
Background
Assessment
Recommendation - Often used in a Telephone Report.
SBAR stands for?
120/80 - What is a normal Blood pressure (BP) reading in a healthy adult?
60-100 - What is a normal Pulse range for a healthy adult?

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12-20 - What is a normal range in a healthy adult for respiration?
96.8-98.6 - What is a normal range in a healthy adult for temperature?
Oral
rectal
axillary
ear
forehead - What are the 5 locations that temperature can be measured in an adult?
Axillary (Armpit) & Tympanic (Ear) - What are 2 preferred methods/locations for taking an
infant's temperature?
Tympanic (Ear), Temporal (Forehead/temporal artery), Oral (mouth), & Rectal. - What are 4
preferred methods/locations for taking a Child's (>3 years) temperature?
Rectal - What is the least desirable methods/locations for taking an infant's temperature?
Apical
Brachial
Radial
Femoral
Popliteal
Posterior Tibial
Dorsal Pedis - Visualizing the body in the anatomical position, starting at the head and ending
at the feet, list all 9 of the pulse locations. (Arms start after the "chest" pulse and feet start
posterior)
Temporal
Carotid - What are the pulse sites on the head and neck?
Apical - What is the pulse site on the torso?

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Brachial
Radial - What are the pulse sites on the arm?
Femoral
Popliteal
Posterior Tibial
Dorsal Pedis - What are the pulse sites of the leg?
Femoral - Pulse sites:
Used in cases of cardiac arrest/shock
Used to determine circulation of the leg
Popliteal - Pulse sites:
Used to determine circulation of the lower leg
Posterior Tibial - Pulse sites:
Used to determine circulation of the foot (Back)
Dorsal Pedis - Pulse sites:
Used to determine circulation of the foot (Top of foot)
Brachial - Pulse sites:
Used to measure BP
Used during cardiac arrest for infants
Radial - Pulse sites:
Readily accessible
Apical - Pulse sites:
Routinely used for infants and children up to 3 years of age
Used to determine discrepancies with radial pulse
Temporal - Pulse sites:
Used when radial pulse is not accessible

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Carotid - Pulse sites:
Used during cardiac arrest / shock in adults
Used to determine circulation in the brain
Decreases
(In contrast when blood volume increases (for example, as a result of a rapid IV infusion),
the BP increases.) - When blood volume decreases (For example, as a result of dehydration),
what happens to blood pressure?
Upper arm (using the brachial artery) - In what location is the BP usually assessed?
Thigh (femoral Artery) - If the BP cannot be assessed in either arm, what is the next location
is indicated to use?
Tachypnea - Breathing Patterns: Rate
Quick, Shallow breaths
Bradypnea - Breathing Patterns: Rate
Abnormally slow breaths
Apnea - Breathing Patterns: Rate
Cessation of breathing
Hyperventilation - Breathing Patterns: Volume
Overexpansion of the lungs characterized by rapid deep breaths.
Hypoventilation - Breathing Patterns: Volume
Underexpansion of the lungs, characterized by shallow respiration.
Cheyne-stokes-breathing - Breathing Patterns: Rythm
Rhythmic waxing and waning of respirations, from very deep to very shallow breathing and
temporary apnea.

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