CBMT PRACTICE FINAL EXAM 2025/2026
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS
▶ Health History? Answer:a collection of subjective information that
provides information about the patient's health status
▶ Review Of Symptoms? Answer:description of individual body systems in
order to discover any symptoms not directly related to the main problem
▶ Confidentiality? Answer:Part of the act of preparing for physical
assessment. Holding information in confidence, not to be released to
unauthorized individuals
▶ Inspection? Answer:Involves the use of vision and smell to closely
scrutinize physical characteristics of a whole person and individual body
systems.
▶ Palpation? Answer:an examination technique in which the examiner's
hands are used to feel the texture, size, consistency, and location of certain
body parts
▶ Percussion? Answer:Involves tapping the patient's skin with short, sharp
strokes that cause vibration to travel through the skin to the upper layers of
the underlying structures.
▶ Auscultation? Answer:Listening to sounds made by body organs or
systems such as the hearth, blood vessels, lungs, and abdominal cavity,
with and without a stethoscope.
▶ General Survey? Answer:Age
Race
Gender
Clothing
Hygiene and grooming
,Affect and mood
Gait
Speech
Development status
▶ Diversity Considerations? Answer:Life Span
Culture, Ethnicity, and Religion
Disability
Morphology
▶ Affect? Answer:Appearance of observable emotions
▶ Mood? Answer:Observations should include whether the patient's mood
is appropriate to the situation, with specific attention to the patient's facial
expressions during data collection.
▶ Gait? Answer:Observe patients when they are walking into the
examination room or at the bedside.
▶ Vital Signs? Answer:temperature, pulse, respirations, and blood
pressure
▶ Fever? Answer:A rise in body temperature above normal, caused by
trauma or illness.
▶ Febrile? Answer:How a person with a fever is described.
▶ Afebrile? Answer:without fever
▶ Tympanic Temperature? Answer:The temperature reading obtained by
placing an aural (ear) thermometer in the patient's ear. 35.6-37.4℃ or
96.08-99.32℉ (in adults).
▶ Axillary Temperature? Answer:Temperature taken at the armpit. 35.5-
37℃ or 95.9-98.6℉ (in adults).
▶ Pulse Rate? Answer:the number of pulse beats per minute. 60-100 BPM
in adults.
, ▶ Pulse Rhythm? Answer:The time interval between heartbeats
▶ Pulse Volume? Answer:The strength of the heartbeat
▶ Pulse Amplitude? Answer:the force or quality of the pulse
▶ Pulse Symmetry? Answer:The relationship between the shapes of the
two phases of a biphasic pulse
▶ Apical Pulse? Answer:pulse taken with a stethoscope and near the apex
of the heart
▶ Apical Rate? Answer:Heart rate obtained from the apex of the heart
▶ Radial Pulse? Answer:the pulse felt at the wrist
▶ Tachycardia? Answer:fast heart rate
▶ Bradycardia? Answer:slow heart rate
▶ Oxygen Saturation? Answer:A clinical measurement of the percentage of
hemoglobin that is bound with oxygen in the blood. >95% SPO₂ (in adults).
▶ Respiratory Rate? Answer:number of breaths per minute. 12-20 breaths
per minute (in adults).
▶ Tachypnea? Answer:rapid breathing
▶ Bradypnea? Answer:slow breathing
▶ Hypoventilation? Answer:ventilation of the lungs that does not fulfill the
body's gas exchange needs
▶ Hyperventilation? Answer:the condition of taking abnormally fast, deep
breaths
▶ Apnea? Answer:absence of breathing
▶ Dyspnea? Answer:difficult or labored breathing
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS
▶ Health History? Answer:a collection of subjective information that
provides information about the patient's health status
▶ Review Of Symptoms? Answer:description of individual body systems in
order to discover any symptoms not directly related to the main problem
▶ Confidentiality? Answer:Part of the act of preparing for physical
assessment. Holding information in confidence, not to be released to
unauthorized individuals
▶ Inspection? Answer:Involves the use of vision and smell to closely
scrutinize physical characteristics of a whole person and individual body
systems.
▶ Palpation? Answer:an examination technique in which the examiner's
hands are used to feel the texture, size, consistency, and location of certain
body parts
▶ Percussion? Answer:Involves tapping the patient's skin with short, sharp
strokes that cause vibration to travel through the skin to the upper layers of
the underlying structures.
▶ Auscultation? Answer:Listening to sounds made by body organs or
systems such as the hearth, blood vessels, lungs, and abdominal cavity,
with and without a stethoscope.
▶ General Survey? Answer:Age
Race
Gender
Clothing
Hygiene and grooming
,Affect and mood
Gait
Speech
Development status
▶ Diversity Considerations? Answer:Life Span
Culture, Ethnicity, and Religion
Disability
Morphology
▶ Affect? Answer:Appearance of observable emotions
▶ Mood? Answer:Observations should include whether the patient's mood
is appropriate to the situation, with specific attention to the patient's facial
expressions during data collection.
▶ Gait? Answer:Observe patients when they are walking into the
examination room or at the bedside.
▶ Vital Signs? Answer:temperature, pulse, respirations, and blood
pressure
▶ Fever? Answer:A rise in body temperature above normal, caused by
trauma or illness.
▶ Febrile? Answer:How a person with a fever is described.
▶ Afebrile? Answer:without fever
▶ Tympanic Temperature? Answer:The temperature reading obtained by
placing an aural (ear) thermometer in the patient's ear. 35.6-37.4℃ or
96.08-99.32℉ (in adults).
▶ Axillary Temperature? Answer:Temperature taken at the armpit. 35.5-
37℃ or 95.9-98.6℉ (in adults).
▶ Pulse Rate? Answer:the number of pulse beats per minute. 60-100 BPM
in adults.
, ▶ Pulse Rhythm? Answer:The time interval between heartbeats
▶ Pulse Volume? Answer:The strength of the heartbeat
▶ Pulse Amplitude? Answer:the force or quality of the pulse
▶ Pulse Symmetry? Answer:The relationship between the shapes of the
two phases of a biphasic pulse
▶ Apical Pulse? Answer:pulse taken with a stethoscope and near the apex
of the heart
▶ Apical Rate? Answer:Heart rate obtained from the apex of the heart
▶ Radial Pulse? Answer:the pulse felt at the wrist
▶ Tachycardia? Answer:fast heart rate
▶ Bradycardia? Answer:slow heart rate
▶ Oxygen Saturation? Answer:A clinical measurement of the percentage of
hemoglobin that is bound with oxygen in the blood. >95% SPO₂ (in adults).
▶ Respiratory Rate? Answer:number of breaths per minute. 12-20 breaths
per minute (in adults).
▶ Tachypnea? Answer:rapid breathing
▶ Bradypnea? Answer:slow breathing
▶ Hypoventilation? Answer:ventilation of the lungs that does not fulfill the
body's gas exchange needs
▶ Hyperventilation? Answer:the condition of taking abnormally fast, deep
breaths
▶ Apnea? Answer:absence of breathing
▶ Dyspnea? Answer:difficult or labored breathing
