NURS 1543 Week 3 Practice Questions and Answers

NURS 1543 Week 3 Practice Questions and Answers setting up for exam - Ans:-private and quiet reduce anxiety make comfortable infection control clean field - Ans:-- all equipment must be cleaned before entering patient space - paper towel on table top to place newly cleaned equipment IPPA - Ans:-inspection, percussion, palpation, auscultation what is inspection - Ans:-hands off watching symmetry, colour, posture, gestures what constitutes palpating - Ans:-temp moisture ©GRACEAMELIA 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024 Page 2/12 texture organ location pain vibration lumps, bumps, masses pulsations skin temperature - Ans:-use the dorsa of hands tactile discrimination - Ans:-fingertips position and shape of organ or mass - Ans:-grasping of fingers and thumb vibration - Ans:-metacarpophalangeal joints or ulnar surfaces why might a patient stiffen when you approach them - Ans:-slow and gentle warm up hands intermittent pressure painful and tender areas ©GRACEAMELIA 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024 Page 3/12 indirect percussion (stationary hand) - Ans:-hyperextend middle finger of non dominant hand place distal joint grimly against skin lift rest of hand off skin indirect percussion (striking hand) - Ans:-flex middle finger keep steady and relaxed all wrist striking action - Ans:-bouncing action only fingertip stole behind nail bed strike two staccato blows percussion notes - Ans:-flatness (muscle, bone, tumour) dullness (dense organ) resonance (lung tissue) hyperresonance (child lung, increased air) tympany (air filled viscus) head landmarks - Ans:-cranial bones (frontal, temporal, parietal, and occipital) ©GRACEAMELIA 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024 Page 4/12 sutures (fontanelles) mastoid process neck landmarks - Ans:-clavicle manubriun stern notch sternomastoid trapezius anterior & posterior triangles neck landmarks - Ans:-hyoid bone thyroid cartilage ads mod apple cricoid cartilage thyroid gland trachea ©GRACEAMELIA 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024 Page 5/12 health history questions - Ans:-head, face, neck, lymphatics headaches head injury dizziness neck pain lumps or swelling (dysphagia) history of head or neck injury size and shape of skull - Ans:-normocephalic palpated with fingers in hair temporal artery - Ans:-tortuous, hardened arteries, tenderness temporomandibular joint - Ans:-smooth movement, crepitation, ROM and tenderness neck and head symmetry - Ans:-head erect, midline, still trachea midline accessory muscles ©GRACEAMELIA 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024 Page 6/12 neck and head (ROM) - Ans:-- note rom, tenderness, crepitation - test cranial nerve 9 spinal accessory nerve - shoulder shrug, turn head side2side - note swelling or enlargement of salivary and lymph glands - note thyroid enlargement objective data physical exam neck - Ans:-- method of palpating - normal nodes (moveable, soft, discrete, and non tender) - if palpable, note location, size, shape, delimitation, mobility, consistency and tenderness integumentary system - Ans:-- protection - temperature regulation maintenance