Advanced Health Assessment Final Exam
Guide with Questions and Answers/ 100%
correct/ Grade A+
BMI Classifications - ✔️✔️Underweight: <18.5
Normal: 18.5-24.9
Overweight: 25.0-29.9
Obesity class
• I: 30.0-34.9
• II: 35.0-39.9
• III: at or over 40
How do you calculate BMI? - ✔️✔️
Stages of HTN - ✔️✔️Normal: under 120/80
Prehypertension: 120-139/80-89
Stage 1: 140-159/90-99
Stage 2: over 160/100
If diabetes or renal disease: goal is under 130/80
Waist Circumference - ✔️✔️Risk if over 35in for women
,Risk if over 40in for men
Cranial Nerves - ✔️✔️1. Olfactory: Sensory
2. Optic: Sensory
3. Occulomotor: Motor
4. Trochlear: Motor
5. Trigeminal: Both
6. Abducens: Motor
7. Facial: Both
8. Acoustic: Sensory
9. Glossopharyngeal: Both
10. Vagus: Both
11. Spinal Accessory: Motor
12. Hypoglossal: Motor
Romberg Test - ✔️✔️Stand with hands to the sides and eyes closed, observe swaying
Pronator Drift - ✔️✔️Stand with arms out, eyes closed, and hands supine -- watch for hands
pronating.
, Graphesthesia - ✔️✔️The inability to recognize numbers written on the hand. Suggests a
lesion in the sensory cortex.
Astereognosis: - ✔️✔️Inability to recognize objects placed in the hand
Kernig - ✔️✔️Flex patient's leg at hip and knee, then straighten the knee. Discomfort behind
the knee during full extension should not cause pain.
Brudzinski - ✔️✔️Pt supine, your hands behind pt's head and flex the neck forward, until
chin touches the chest if possible. Neck stiffness with resistance and flexion of hips and knees
is a positive sign. May be a sign of acute bacterial meningitis or subarachnoid hemorrhage
Straight Leg Raising - ✔️✔️Lift the straight leg, if pt has low back pain with nerve pain that
radiates down the leg = sciatica from compression of the spinal nerve root as it passes
through the vertebral foramen
Plantar (Babinski) Reflex - ✔️✔️Dorsiflexion of the big toe is a positive Babinski response
from a CNS lesion in the corticospinal tract
Finkelstein Test - ✔️✔️Pt grabs thumb with hand and you pull down to see if there is tendon
tenderness - if positive, might mean tendonitis
Guide with Questions and Answers/ 100%
correct/ Grade A+
BMI Classifications - ✔️✔️Underweight: <18.5
Normal: 18.5-24.9
Overweight: 25.0-29.9
Obesity class
• I: 30.0-34.9
• II: 35.0-39.9
• III: at or over 40
How do you calculate BMI? - ✔️✔️
Stages of HTN - ✔️✔️Normal: under 120/80
Prehypertension: 120-139/80-89
Stage 1: 140-159/90-99
Stage 2: over 160/100
If diabetes or renal disease: goal is under 130/80
Waist Circumference - ✔️✔️Risk if over 35in for women
,Risk if over 40in for men
Cranial Nerves - ✔️✔️1. Olfactory: Sensory
2. Optic: Sensory
3. Occulomotor: Motor
4. Trochlear: Motor
5. Trigeminal: Both
6. Abducens: Motor
7. Facial: Both
8. Acoustic: Sensory
9. Glossopharyngeal: Both
10. Vagus: Both
11. Spinal Accessory: Motor
12. Hypoglossal: Motor
Romberg Test - ✔️✔️Stand with hands to the sides and eyes closed, observe swaying
Pronator Drift - ✔️✔️Stand with arms out, eyes closed, and hands supine -- watch for hands
pronating.
, Graphesthesia - ✔️✔️The inability to recognize numbers written on the hand. Suggests a
lesion in the sensory cortex.
Astereognosis: - ✔️✔️Inability to recognize objects placed in the hand
Kernig - ✔️✔️Flex patient's leg at hip and knee, then straighten the knee. Discomfort behind
the knee during full extension should not cause pain.
Brudzinski - ✔️✔️Pt supine, your hands behind pt's head and flex the neck forward, until
chin touches the chest if possible. Neck stiffness with resistance and flexion of hips and knees
is a positive sign. May be a sign of acute bacterial meningitis or subarachnoid hemorrhage
Straight Leg Raising - ✔️✔️Lift the straight leg, if pt has low back pain with nerve pain that
radiates down the leg = sciatica from compression of the spinal nerve root as it passes
through the vertebral foramen
Plantar (Babinski) Reflex - ✔️✔️Dorsiflexion of the big toe is a positive Babinski response
from a CNS lesion in the corticospinal tract
Finkelstein Test - ✔️✔️Pt grabs thumb with hand and you pull down to see if there is tendon
tenderness - if positive, might mean tendonitis
