HCA 201B MC QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS LATEST UPDATE 2026

HCA 201B MC QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS LATEST UPDATE 2026 Respiratory arrest - Answers breathing stops Respiratory depression - Answers breathing slows due to narcotics Lung scans use - Answers radio isotopes What is a pulmonary function test - Answers measures amount of air moving into and out of the lungs The process of respiration - Answers The respiratory system brings oxygen into the lungs and removes carbon dioxide Average heart rate of an adult is - Answers 60 to 100 beats per minute Respiration involves - Answers inhalation (inspiration) and exhalation (expiration). Breathing up right and forward is the - Answers orthopneic position Tachypnea is - Answers rapid breathing Respirations are more than 24 per minute Bradypnea is slow breathing - Answers Respirations are fewer than 12 per minute Apnea is lack of or absence of breathing - Answers Sleep apnea and periodic apnea of newborns are other types of apnea Kussmaul respirations - Answers Deep and rapid respirations characteristic of diabetic acidosis Hypoventilation - Answers Respirations are slow, shallow, and sometimes irregular Hyperventilation - Answers Respirations are rapid and deeper than normal Dyspnea - Answers Is difficult, laboured, or painful breathing Cheyne - Answers Stokes Respirations gradually increase in rate and depth, and then become shallow and slow Breathing may stop for 10 to 20 seconds,Cheyne - Answers Stokes respirations are common when death is near Orthopnea - Answers Is breathing deeply and comfortably only when sitting Nasal cannula - Answers you can eat while wearing it Partial rebreather mask - Answers block the intake of the atmospheric air only partially. Use of such masks result in patient breathing about 40% to 60% concentration of oxygen. Nonrebreather mask - Answers it is designed to prevent mixing of atmospheric air or the air exhaled by the patient with the oxygen. This type of mask allows up to 90% concentration of oxygen to be delivered Venturi mask - Answers This type of mask increases the supply of total oxygen for breathing, but the concentration of oxygen supplied is only about 24% to 28% Thrombus - Answers Is a blood clot The entire system from mouth to anus is how long - Answers 30 feet (9 meters) long Accessory organs are - Answers the teeth, tongue, salivary glands, liver, gall bladder, and pancreas. Each nephron - Answers is the basic working unit of the kidney. The healthy adult produces how much unrine a day - Answers 1500 mL What should the support worker do when caring for clients with chest tubes - Answers keep connecting tube coiled on bed, turn and reposition the client, observe chest drainage. when caring for clients with chest tubes what should the support worker never do - Answers raise the drainage system above chest level what is the major cause of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - Answers smoking What is the correct term for respirations that are greater than 24 per minute - Answers tachypnea What is the correct term for absence of breathing - Answers apnea respiratory arrest occurs when - Answers breathing has stopped where in the body is oxygen and carbon dioxide exchanged - Answers during inhalation and exhalation what does the pulmonary function test do - Answers measures the amount of air moving into and out of the lungs what is the correct term for respirations that are slow shallow and sometimes irregular - Answers bradypnea what is difficult labored or painful breathing called - Answers dyspnea what position is when the client is sitting up in bed and leaning over a table in order to breathe easier - Answers orthopneic position what is another term for bloody sputum - Answers hemoptysis the amount of hemoglobin that contains oxygen is referred to as - Answers oxygen concentration miss pyer is breathing very slow and cannot get enough Air into her lungs what is this called - Answers respiratory depression Recca a support worker is providing care to his resident who has a history of asthma and is having an asthma attack what should he do - Answers Call for help when a client is sensitive to a substance his or her body reacts with signs and symptoms what are these called - Answers an allergy carbon dioxide released from a car is considered to be what - Answers a pollutant part of a lung has a collapsed what is the condition called - Answers Atecectasis What is the correct term for reduced amount of oxygen in the blood - Answers hypoxemia a radioisotope is administered for what reason - Answers lung scan what is mucus from the respiratory tract that is expectorated through the mouth called - Answers sputum a client has a red heart and hot area along the course of a vein the support worker knows This condition is - Answers phlebitis When respirations gradually increase in rate and depths and then becomes shallow and slow, it is called - Answers Chreyne Stokes respirations what substance gives red blood cells their color - Answers hemoglobin Harry has heart failure what does this mean - Answers the heart cannot pump blood normally a support worker has assisted the client to use an incentive spirometer what is the next step - Answers coughing what is the largest artery in the body - Answers the aorta what mask allows clients to talk and eat during oxygen administration - Answers nasal cannula Narcotics affect oxygen needs because they do what - Answers depress the respiratory center in the brain the client can only breathe deeply and comfortably when sitting what is this called - Answers orthopnea what is the muscular part of the heart - Answers The myocardium each lung is covered by a two layer sack what is the correct term for this sack - Answers pleura what does the term hypoxia mean - Answers cells don't have enough oxygen what is the correct term for respirations fewer than 12 per minute - Answers bradnypnea The nurse has administered a supository to a client when should the support worker expect the client to have bowel movement - Answers in 30 minutes what is the definition of fecal impaction - Answers prolonged retention and accumulation of feces in the rectum glasses of water does a person need daily to promote normal fecal elimination - Answers 6-8 glasses why does privacy affect elimination - Answers bowel movements and sounds are embarrassing what did the term flatulence mean - Answers the excessive formation of gas or air in the stomach and intestines what is a sign of fecal impaction - Answers liquid feces seeping from the anus a colostomy is a surgically created opening between what - Answers the colon and the abdominal wall is the larnax part of the digestive system true or false - Answers false what does flatus mean - Answers gas or air passed through the anus A client with diarrhea is at risk for - Answers dehydration what can occur if Constipation is not relieved - Answers fecal impaction how often are ostomy pouches changed - Answers every three to seven days or when needed what is a common time for fecal elimination - Answers after breakfast why is diarrhea a serious condition for infants and children - Answers infants and children have large amounts of water in their bodies and are at risk for dehydration what is a disease in which stomach contents flow back from the stomach into the esophagus - Answers gastroesophageal reflux disease what does the term defecation mean - Answers the process of excreting feces from rectum through the anus the client complaints of Constipation the support worker would expect the client's stools to be what - Answers hard and dry what is the usual position for defecation - Answers sitting or squatting what kind of foods are needed for normal fecal elimination - Answers fruits and vegetables