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Prepare for success with this comprehensive NBCE Clinical Nursing Exam Study Guide. This document includes carefully organized exam questions and answers, detailed rationales, clinical nursing concepts, patient care scenarios, pharmacology review, medical-surgical nursing content, and evidence-based nursing practice materials. Ideal for nursing students and professionals preparing for the NBCE Clinical Nursing examination, this resource helps strengthen critical thinking, clinical judgment, assessment skills, nursing interventions, and exam readiness. Use these revision notes and practice questions to improve confidence and maximize your exam performance.

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NBCE Part 4 Clinical & Set-Ups
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1. Case History - Identifying Data (name, age, etc.)
- Chief Complaint
- Present Illness (OPPQRST)
- Past History
- (SHITM)
- Family History
- Occupational History
- Social History
- Review of Systems

2. Vitals - Temperature
- Pulse
- Respiration
- Blood Pressure
- Height
- Weight

3. Blood Pressure How to do Blood Pressure:
1. Patient seated
2. Arm elevated (doctor braces patient's wrist)
3. Empty air from cuff, wrap tight on patient
4. Palpatory systolic (on the way up until disappears)
5. Place stethoscope in ears
6. Pump 30-40 higher
7. Auscultate to O (recording true systolic/diastolic values)

4. Physical Exam - Skin Exam XXX
- Eye Exam
- Nose Exam XXX
- Ear Exam
- Mouth & Throat Exam XXX
- Endocrinology Exam XXX


, NBCE Part 4 Clinical & Set-Ups
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- Genital Exam XXX
- Lymphatic Exam
- Peripheral Exam
- Lung Exam
- Heart Exam
- Abdominal Exam

5. Eye Exam: CN III, Cardinal Field of Gaze
IV, VI

6. Eye Exam: CN II & - Direct (ipsilateral eye)
III - Indirect ( contralateral eye)

7. Eye Exam: CN II Accommodation: Converge & Constrict
& III Accommo-
dation reflex

8. Follow up ques- - headaches?
tions to a + Eye - trouble reading?
Exam? - last eye exam?
- normally wear glasses/contacts?

9. Ear Exam: Weber - Preform WEBER first
& Rhinne - Then preform Rhinne on the EAR that CAN HEAR
- *Every case has been Meinier's disease* (ask: ringing?, deafness?, dizzyness?)

10. Lymphatic Exam: palpate w/ 3 fingers
palpation
- *Neck* (EENT questions)
- Supraclavicular (ROS)
- *Axillary* (breast, chest, and arms questions) 4 walls
- Inguinal (legs/STDs)

11.


, NBCE Part 4 Clinical & Set-Ups
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Peripheral Vascu- *3 of them/ Seated*
lar Exam (PVE): - Unlar
upper extremity - Radial
palpation - Subclavian
- Carotid
- Temporal

12. Peripheral Vascu- *Supine*
lar Exam (PVE): - Femoral
lower extremity - Popliteal
palpation - Posterior Tibial
- Dorsal Pedis

13. Peripheral Vascu- - Capillary Refill
lar Exam (PVE): - Allen's Test
special tests - Claudication Test
- Buerger's test
- Homan's test

14. Peripheral Vascu- *BELL*
lar Exam (PVE): - @ carotid bifurcation (c4)
auscultation - bruit
-turbulance

15. Heart Exam: pal- *A* - 2nd right intercostal space (parasternal)
pate & auscultate *P* - 2nd left intercostal space (parasternal)
valve sites E - *NOT A VALVE*
*T* - 4th/5th left intercostal space ( parasternal)
*M* - 5th left intercostal space (midclavicular) *location of the apical pulse*

16. Heart Exam: PER- a) Left side (lateral to medial) 3, 4, & 5 intercostal spaces
CUSSION (bor- b) Right side (superior to inferior) right sternal border
ders of the heart)


, NBCE Part 4 Clinical & Set-Ups
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17. Abdominal Aorta Auscultate with bell
Exam
Palpate lateral to medial

18. Lung Exam: Pos- *SEATED*
terior Thoracic - Respiratory Excursions/expansion
Palpation - *Tactile Fremitus* ("99"):

19. Lung Exam: Pos- "Scan APEX (3 taps)
terior Thoracic
Percussion *Sounds*
- Flat: tumor/collapse
- Dull: fluid
- Resonant: normal
- Hyperresonant: Air (COPD)

*Diaphragmatic Expansion*

20. Lung Exam: Pos- - deep breath
terior Thoracic - whispered pectoriloquy ("1,2,3")
Auscultation - bronchophony ("99")
- egophony ("E")

21. Lung Exam: Ante- - Fremitus ("99")
rior Thorax - Percussion
- Auscultation

22. Abdominal - Bowel sounds (diaphragm) indicates: borborygmi
Exam:
auscultation - Vessels (bell) aorta, renal & iliac; indicates: vessel turbulence

23. - 9 quadrants
- organ size (liver & spleen)

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