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NSG500/ NSG 500 EXAM 2: (NEW 2024/ 2025)
ADVANCED HEALTH ASSESSMENT REVIEW|
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS| 100%
CORRECT|
1. What are abnormal findings of aging in HEENT?: Neck pain
Crepitus
Dizziness
Jerkiness
Limitation of movement
2. What are abnormal respirations?: Tachypnea
Bradypnea
Hyperpnea
Kussmaul
Hypopnea
Cheyne-Stokes
3. What are absent bowel sounds?: No sounds after 5 minutes of
continuous listening
4. What does absent bowel sounds mean?: If it's associated with
abdominal pain and rigidity, it's a surgical emergency.
5. What does a normal ear look like?: Uniform pink
Hair on the outer 2/3
Some cerumen
No lesions
No discharge
No foreign bodies
TM is translucent and pearly gray
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,Landmarks visible
6. Adult Otoscopic Exam: Pull auricle upward and back
7. What are the landmarks of the ear?: Umbo
Handle of Malleus
Light Reflex
Concavity at umbo
8. What is the relationship between AC and BC sound?: Air-
conducted should be 2x as long as bone-conducted.
9. Altered resonance: bronchophony whispered pectoriloquy
egophony
10. What does an anterior pointed cervix indicate?: Retroverted
uterus
11. What does a prominent lateral pulsation suggest?: Aortic
aneurysm
12. How do you identify an aortic regurgitation murmur?: Heard
with diaphragm with pt sitting and leaning forward.
13. How can you hear an Austin-Flint murmur?: Heard w/ bell at
apex
14. What is an Austin-Flint murmur?: Severe aortic regurge murmur
15. Where is an ejection click heard?: In the second intercostal
space
16. What is an aortic stenosis murmur?: Ejection sound at second
right intercostal border.
17. Where can an aortic stenosis murmur be heard?: Over the
aortic area 28. How to you identify the aortic valve area?: In the
second right intercostal space at the right sternal border.
29. What special tests can help identify appendicitis?: Rebound
tenderness Rovsing's sign
Iliopsoas sign
Obturator's sign
Cutaneous hyperesthesia
Markle test
30. What do you inspect when examining nipples?: Shape Color
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Texture
Eversion
Retraction/Deviation
31. What should be the normal texture of areolas?: Smooth except
for nontender Montgomery turbercles
32. How do you identify arterial embolic disease?: Pain
Paresthesia
Nail bed hemorrhages
33. What tests diagnose ascites?: Fluid wave
Shifting Dullness
34. How to assess for tactile fremitus?: Pt Repeats 99.
Provider systematically palpates chest front, back, and sides.
Touch should be light, but firm to feel for vibrations
35. What is a normal finding for tactile fremitus?: Vibration should
be symmetrical
36. How do you auscultate chest/lungs?: Move systematically from
apex to base.
Compare sides.
Listen through inspiration/expiration
37. What tool do you use to auscultate chest/lungs?: Stethoscope
diaphragm 38. How should the patient breath during
auscultation?: Slowly and deeply through mouth
39. What should the patient's position be for auscultation of
posterior chest?: head bent forward
Arms crossed
40. What should the patient's position be for auscultation of
lateral chest?: Raise arms
41. What should the patient's position be for auscultation of
anterior chest?: Erect w/ shoulders back
42. Cardiac Auscultation Mnemonic: All Patient Easily Take
Medicine
NSG500
NSG
NSG500/ NSG 500 EXAM 2: (NEW 2024/ 2025)
ADVANCED HEALTH ASSESSMENT REVIEW|
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS| 100%
CORRECT|
1. What are abnormal findings of aging in HEENT?: Neck pain
Crepitus
Dizziness
Jerkiness
Limitation of movement
2. What are abnormal respirations?: Tachypnea
Bradypnea
Hyperpnea
Kussmaul
Hypopnea
Cheyne-Stokes
3. What are absent bowel sounds?: No sounds after 5 minutes of
continuous listening
4. What does absent bowel sounds mean?: If it's associated with
abdominal pain and rigidity, it's a surgical emergency.
5. What does a normal ear look like?: Uniform pink
Hair on the outer 2/3
Some cerumen
No lesions
No discharge
No foreign bodies
TM is translucent and pearly gray
NSG500
,Landmarks visible
6. Adult Otoscopic Exam: Pull auricle upward and back
7. What are the landmarks of the ear?: Umbo
Handle of Malleus
Light Reflex
Concavity at umbo
8. What is the relationship between AC and BC sound?: Air-
conducted should be 2x as long as bone-conducted.
9. Altered resonance: bronchophony whispered pectoriloquy
egophony
10. What does an anterior pointed cervix indicate?: Retroverted
uterus
11. What does a prominent lateral pulsation suggest?: Aortic
aneurysm
12. How do you identify an aortic regurgitation murmur?: Heard
with diaphragm with pt sitting and leaning forward.
13. How can you hear an Austin-Flint murmur?: Heard w/ bell at
apex
14. What is an Austin-Flint murmur?: Severe aortic regurge murmur
15. Where is an ejection click heard?: In the second intercostal
space
16. What is an aortic stenosis murmur?: Ejection sound at second
right intercostal border.
17. Where can an aortic stenosis murmur be heard?: Over the
aortic area 28. How to you identify the aortic valve area?: In the
second right intercostal space at the right sternal border.
29. What special tests can help identify appendicitis?: Rebound
tenderness Rovsing's sign
Iliopsoas sign
Obturator's sign
Cutaneous hyperesthesia
Markle test
30. What do you inspect when examining nipples?: Shape Color
, 3
NSG
Texture
Eversion
Retraction/Deviation
31. What should be the normal texture of areolas?: Smooth except
for nontender Montgomery turbercles
32. How do you identify arterial embolic disease?: Pain
Paresthesia
Nail bed hemorrhages
33. What tests diagnose ascites?: Fluid wave
Shifting Dullness
34. How to assess for tactile fremitus?: Pt Repeats 99.
Provider systematically palpates chest front, back, and sides.
Touch should be light, but firm to feel for vibrations
35. What is a normal finding for tactile fremitus?: Vibration should
be symmetrical
36. How do you auscultate chest/lungs?: Move systematically from
apex to base.
Compare sides.
Listen through inspiration/expiration
37. What tool do you use to auscultate chest/lungs?: Stethoscope
diaphragm 38. How should the patient breath during
auscultation?: Slowly and deeply through mouth
39. What should the patient's position be for auscultation of
posterior chest?: head bent forward
Arms crossed
40. What should the patient's position be for auscultation of
lateral chest?: Raise arms
41. What should the patient's position be for auscultation of
anterior chest?: Erect w/ shoulders back
42. Cardiac Auscultation Mnemonic: All Patient Easily Take
Medicine
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