HEALTH ASSESSMENT WALDEN UNIVERSITY
20 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
, NURS 6512 WEEK 2 QUIZ (LATEST-2020)
ADVANCED HEALTH ASSESSMENT WALDEN
UNIVERSITY
Question 1
You are using an ophthalmoscope to examine a patient s inner eye. You rotate
the lens selector clockwise, then counterclockwise in order to compensate for:
Response Rotating the lens selector compensates for myopia
Feedback: (nearsighted) or hyperopia (farsighted) in both the examiner
as well as the patient.
Question 2
Underestimation of blood pressure will occur if the blood pressure cuff s
bladder:
Response Cuffs that are too wide will underestimate blood pressure,
Feedback: which would happen with a cuff that is more than two-thirds
of the upper arm. Cuffs that are too narrow will give an
artificially high reading.
Question 3
Tuning forks with a frequency of 500 to 1000 Hz are most commonly used to
measure:
Response Normal speech has a range of 300 to 3000 Hz; therefore, the
Feedback: 500- to 1000-Hz fork is most often used because it can
estimate hearing loss in the range of normal speech.
Question 4