NURSING EXAM 2 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 2026 VERIFIED.
What does gait mean? - ANS How you walk/the rhythm that you walk
While percussing a patient's chest, the nurse hears a dull sound over the right lower lobe. This
could indicate:
a) Hyperresonance
b) Pneumonia
c) Emphysema
d) Normal lung tissue - ANS B
What does affect mean? - ANS How a person appears to other/immediate emotional state
While auscultating a patient's heart, you hear a low-pitched "lub" sound during early diastole.
This is most likely:
a) S1
b) S2
c) S3
d) S4 - ANS C
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,A nurse is assessing a patient's respiratory status. Which of the following findings would indicate
abnormal breathing?
a) Respiratory rate of 16 breaths per minute
b) Equal chest expansion on both sides
c) Use of accessory muscles during inspiration
d) Clear breath sounds throughout all lung fields - ANS C
Which sound is heard as swishing or blowing sound on auscultation with a stethoscope and
indicates blood passing through a narrow sectioned of a blood vessel?
A) Thrill
B) Bruit
C) Pulse
D) Murmur - ANS B
Which physical examination technique is the nurse performing when using the bell of a
stethoscope to hear a patient's heart sounds?
A) Palpation
B) Inspection
C) Auscultation
D) Percussion - ANS C
A nurse is assessing a patient's jugular venous pressure (JVP). The patient should be positioned:
a) Sitting upright at 90 degrees
b) Supine with head elevated 30-45 degrees
c) Left lateral recumbent
d) Standing - ANS B
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,Which device would the nurse use to assess a pulse that is difficult to palpate?
A) Bell of stethoscope
B) Doppler ultrasound
C) Blood pressure cuff
D) Pulse oximeter - ANS B
What is dysuria? - ANS
Which of the following is an abnormal breath sound?
a) Vesicular
b) Bronchovesicular
c) Bronchial
d) Crackles - ANS D
Which pulse is difficult to palpate in a normal patient?
A) Femoral
B) Dorsalis pedis
C) Brachial
D) Popliteal - ANS D
What is hematuria? - ANS blood in the urine
What is polyuria? - ANS frequency of urine
Which heart sound would the nurse hear when there is a premature rush of blood into a stiff or
dilated ventricle?
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, A) Murmur
B) Dub
C) Rub
D) Ventricular gallop - ANS D
During percussion of the lungs, which sound indicates the presence of air?
a) Flat
b) Dull
c) Resonant
d) Tympanic - ANS C
Which location would the nurse palpate for the apical impulse? - ANS At the fourth
intercostal space just medial to the left mid clavicular line
What is nocturia? - ANS the need to wake up during the night to urinate
Which of the following findings suggests right-sided heart failure?
a) Crackles in lung bases
b) Jugular vein distention
c) Left ventricular heave
d) Displaced apical pulse - ANS B
Which breath sound has a shorter inspiratory phase than expiratory phase?
A) Rhonchi
B) Crackle
C) Vesicular
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ANSWERS 2026 VERIFIED.
What does gait mean? - ANS How you walk/the rhythm that you walk
While percussing a patient's chest, the nurse hears a dull sound over the right lower lobe. This
could indicate:
a) Hyperresonance
b) Pneumonia
c) Emphysema
d) Normal lung tissue - ANS B
What does affect mean? - ANS How a person appears to other/immediate emotional state
While auscultating a patient's heart, you hear a low-pitched "lub" sound during early diastole.
This is most likely:
a) S1
b) S2
c) S3
d) S4 - ANS C
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,A nurse is assessing a patient's respiratory status. Which of the following findings would indicate
abnormal breathing?
a) Respiratory rate of 16 breaths per minute
b) Equal chest expansion on both sides
c) Use of accessory muscles during inspiration
d) Clear breath sounds throughout all lung fields - ANS C
Which sound is heard as swishing or blowing sound on auscultation with a stethoscope and
indicates blood passing through a narrow sectioned of a blood vessel?
A) Thrill
B) Bruit
C) Pulse
D) Murmur - ANS B
Which physical examination technique is the nurse performing when using the bell of a
stethoscope to hear a patient's heart sounds?
A) Palpation
B) Inspection
C) Auscultation
D) Percussion - ANS C
A nurse is assessing a patient's jugular venous pressure (JVP). The patient should be positioned:
a) Sitting upright at 90 degrees
b) Supine with head elevated 30-45 degrees
c) Left lateral recumbent
d) Standing - ANS B
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,Which device would the nurse use to assess a pulse that is difficult to palpate?
A) Bell of stethoscope
B) Doppler ultrasound
C) Blood pressure cuff
D) Pulse oximeter - ANS B
What is dysuria? - ANS
Which of the following is an abnormal breath sound?
a) Vesicular
b) Bronchovesicular
c) Bronchial
d) Crackles - ANS D
Which pulse is difficult to palpate in a normal patient?
A) Femoral
B) Dorsalis pedis
C) Brachial
D) Popliteal - ANS D
What is hematuria? - ANS blood in the urine
What is polyuria? - ANS frequency of urine
Which heart sound would the nurse hear when there is a premature rush of blood into a stiff or
dilated ventricle?
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, A) Murmur
B) Dub
C) Rub
D) Ventricular gallop - ANS D
During percussion of the lungs, which sound indicates the presence of air?
a) Flat
b) Dull
c) Resonant
d) Tympanic - ANS C
Which location would the nurse palpate for the apical impulse? - ANS At the fourth
intercostal space just medial to the left mid clavicular line
What is nocturia? - ANS the need to wake up during the night to urinate
Which of the following findings suggests right-sided heart failure?
a) Crackles in lung bases
b) Jugular vein distention
c) Left ventricular heave
d) Displaced apical pulse - ANS B
Which breath sound has a shorter inspiratory phase than expiratory phase?
A) Rhonchi
B) Crackle
C) Vesicular
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