NUR 355 Exam ACTUAL UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Critical thinking - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅✅Ability to think systematically and logically,
questioning and reflecting on the reasoning process
Assessing patient's memory - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅✅Immediate recall of a series of
numbers, recent memory test, knowledge assessment
Abstract thinking - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅✅Ability to interpret abstract ideas or
concepts, reflecting the capacity for association
Higher-level intellectual functioning - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅✅Involves finding
similarities between concepts, making judgments, and forming appropriate conclusions
General survey assessment - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅✅Assessing gender, race, age, signs
of distress, body type, posture, gait, body movements, hygiene, grooming, dress, body odor,
affect, mood, speech, signs of abuse, substance abuse
Rhonchi (sonorous wheeze) - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅✅Coarse, rumbling, loud, low-
pitched breath sounds heard during inspiration or expiration
Assessing Rhonchi - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅✅Auscultating over trachea (and bronchi if
loud enough)
Wheeze (sibilant wheeze) - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅✅Whistling, high-pitched bronchus,
continuous squeak heard during inspiration or expiration (usually louder on expiration)
Assessing Wheeze - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅✅Auscultating over all lung fields
Bronchial (tracheal) breath sounds - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅✅Coarse, loud breath sounds
heard with consolidation, inspiration < expiration, loud and high-pitched with harsh/hollow
quality, heard over the trachea and larynx
, Pleural friction rub - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅✅Scratchy, high-pitched, dry or grating
breath sound heard during inspiration or expiration
Assessing Pleural friction rub - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅✅Auscultating over the anterior
lateral lung (if patient is sitting upright)
Fine crackles - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅✅Fine crackling, high-pitched, fine, short
interrupted crackling sounds heard during end of inspiration, auscultated in the base of lungs
(dependent lobes)
Medium crackles - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅✅Lower, moister sounds heard during middle
of inspiration, auscultated in the base of lungs (dependent lobes)
Coarse crackles - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅✅Loud, bubbly sounds heard during inspiration,
auscultated in the base of lungs (dependent lobes)
Bronchovesicular breath sounds - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅✅Normal breath sounds;
blowing sounds that are medium pitched and of medium intensity, inspiration = expiration,
best heard posteriorly between the scapulae and anteriorly over bronchioles lateral to the
sternum (at 1st & 2nd intercostal spaces)
Vesicular breath sounds - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅✅Normal breath sounds; soft, breezy,
and low-pitched, inspiration > expiration, best heard over the periphery of lung (except over
scapula)
Vocal or tactile fremitus - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅✅Sound waves create vibrations that
can be palpated externally
Weber's test - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅✅Screening test for hearing performed with a
tuning fork
Rinne test - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅✅Used to evaluate loss of hearing in one ear,
comparing perception of sounds transmitted by air conduction to those transmitted by bone
conduction through the mastoid
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Critical thinking - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅✅Ability to think systematically and logically,
questioning and reflecting on the reasoning process
Assessing patient's memory - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅✅Immediate recall of a series of
numbers, recent memory test, knowledge assessment
Abstract thinking - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅✅Ability to interpret abstract ideas or
concepts, reflecting the capacity for association
Higher-level intellectual functioning - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅✅Involves finding
similarities between concepts, making judgments, and forming appropriate conclusions
General survey assessment - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅✅Assessing gender, race, age, signs
of distress, body type, posture, gait, body movements, hygiene, grooming, dress, body odor,
affect, mood, speech, signs of abuse, substance abuse
Rhonchi (sonorous wheeze) - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅✅Coarse, rumbling, loud, low-
pitched breath sounds heard during inspiration or expiration
Assessing Rhonchi - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅✅Auscultating over trachea (and bronchi if
loud enough)
Wheeze (sibilant wheeze) - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅✅Whistling, high-pitched bronchus,
continuous squeak heard during inspiration or expiration (usually louder on expiration)
Assessing Wheeze - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅✅Auscultating over all lung fields
Bronchial (tracheal) breath sounds - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅✅Coarse, loud breath sounds
heard with consolidation, inspiration < expiration, loud and high-pitched with harsh/hollow
quality, heard over the trachea and larynx
, Pleural friction rub - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅✅Scratchy, high-pitched, dry or grating
breath sound heard during inspiration or expiration
Assessing Pleural friction rub - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅✅Auscultating over the anterior
lateral lung (if patient is sitting upright)
Fine crackles - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅✅Fine crackling, high-pitched, fine, short
interrupted crackling sounds heard during end of inspiration, auscultated in the base of lungs
(dependent lobes)
Medium crackles - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅✅Lower, moister sounds heard during middle
of inspiration, auscultated in the base of lungs (dependent lobes)
Coarse crackles - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅✅Loud, bubbly sounds heard during inspiration,
auscultated in the base of lungs (dependent lobes)
Bronchovesicular breath sounds - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅✅Normal breath sounds;
blowing sounds that are medium pitched and of medium intensity, inspiration = expiration,
best heard posteriorly between the scapulae and anteriorly over bronchioles lateral to the
sternum (at 1st & 2nd intercostal spaces)
Vesicular breath sounds - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅✅Normal breath sounds; soft, breezy,
and low-pitched, inspiration > expiration, best heard over the periphery of lung (except over
scapula)
Vocal or tactile fremitus - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅✅Sound waves create vibrations that
can be palpated externally
Weber's test - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅✅Screening test for hearing performed with a
tuning fork
Rinne test - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅✅Used to evaluate loss of hearing in one ear,
comparing perception of sounds transmitted by air conduction to those transmitted by bone
conduction through the mastoid
