ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES
(VERIFIED ANSWERS)
The INITIAL purpose of stump wrapping is to: - Answer aid in venous return and reduce
swelling
What is an important travel tip for people with COPD? - Answer avoid elevation above 4000
feet unless in a pressurized cabin
What produces esophageal speech? - Answer burping to exert pressure and produce
vibration
What is not included in a patient's occupational history? – Answer past learning difficulties
Blindness of the nasal half of one eye and the temporal half of the other is known as: - Answer
homonymous hemianopsia
The terms perceived "susceptibility," "perceived threat," and "cues to action" are important
concepts in which nursing theory? - Answer health belief model
What bladder disorder will MOST likely be present in a patient with a CVA? - Answer
uninhibited neurogenic bladder
What is the legal definition of blindness? - Answer visual field restriction of up to 20 degrees
or central visual acuity in the better eye of no more than 20/200
Pursed lip breathing improves oxygenation because it: - Answer keeps the alveoli open longer
What is the result of injury to the satiety center? - Answer overeating
Tardive dyskinesia, associated with the prolonged use of psychotropic drugs, may be assessed by
instructing the patient to: - Answer grimace, smile, frown, pucker, and chew
With normal capillary perfusion, the color will return within: - Answer 3 seconds
What is an appropriate nursing intervention for a pt. experiencing physiological and/or
psychosocial disturbances who has recently been transferred from one environment to another? -
Answer encourage pt's verbalization of feelings
A patient who is unwilling to discuss his disability or to touch or look at his involved body parts
may have a nursing diagnosis of: - Answer body image disturbance
, What is a principle upon which learning depends? – Answer providing for learner
participation
Autonomous areflexic bladder dysfunction occurs when a lesion involves: - Answer both the
motor and sensory components of the sacral segments of the spinal cord
Reflexogenic erections are possible when which spinal segments are perserved? – Answer
sacral
What is the Barthel Index? - Answer consists of 10 items that measure a person's daily
functioning specifically the activities of daily living and mobility
What is a normal finding when assessing the skin of an elderly person? – Answer decreased
subcutaneous fat
What is the premise of the Bobath neurodevelopmental technique? – Answer pt's learn the
sensation of movement, not the movement itself
Sleep deprivation can result in: - Answer psychosis
A patient who presents with drooling or insufficiently chewed food has a problem in which
phase of the swallowing process? - Answer oral
Upon discharge, what is the MOST important learning outcome for the patient with
quadriplegia? - Answer demonstrating knowledge and skills of self care
Which part of the brain control temperature? – Answer hypothalamus
In order to qualify for SSI, an individual must: - Answer demonstrate financial need by
income level
In the absence of an audiologist, which professionals would formally evaluate a pt's hearing? -
Answer speech therapist
The three point gate consists of: - Answer moving both crutches forward along with the
affected leg and followed by the unaffected leg
What is the most therapeutic position for distribution of body weight over bony prominences? –
Answer prone
Proprioceptors mediate deep somatic sensations related primarily to: - Answer position and
movement
The most common barrier to community re-entry that a patient with disabilities encounters is: -
Answer societal attitudes