NUR 2180 / NUR2180: Physical Assessment. Comprehensive
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Physical Assessment Module 9 Quiz Study Guide
• Where can bronchial breath sounds be heard?
o This sound is heard over the trachea and larynx areas
• What type of adventitious sound is created by narrowing of the bronchi?
o Wheezing
• What does a rhonchi finding represent?
o low pitched snoring or moaning sounds heard in bronchitis
• Understand what tactile fremitus assesses
o Also, the nurse can palpate for vocal (or tactile) fremitus which
is vibration that is felt when the client says something like
“ninety-nine”. The vibration should feel symmetric in intensity
and decrease as you move your hands downward over the
posterior thorax. The ulnar surface of the hand is most sensitive
to the sensation of vibration but the palm can also be used. If
you feel increased fremitus over a particular area, it may
indicate consolidation such as pneumonia as sound conducts
better through a dense structure rather than a porous one.
Decreased fremitus can indicate a problem such as
pneumothorax or emphysema.
• Know why side-to-side pattern is used during a respiratory assessment
o Auscultation of the lungs should be performed in a
systematic manner, listening side to side, either right to left
then right to left or right to left then left to right.
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o To make sure sounds are symmetrical
• Know what course crackles, stridor, and wheezes are and what they sound
like
o crackles (crackling and popping sounds heard in issues like
pneumonia)
o stridor (high pitched, inspiratory crowing, heard with
croup or upper airway obstruction from foreign body).
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Health Assessment form (Latest ) Rasmussen
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Physical Assessment Module 9 Quiz Study Guide
• Where can bronchial breath sounds be heard?
o This sound is heard over the trachea and larynx areas
• What type of adventitious sound is created by narrowing of the bronchi?
o Wheezing
• What does a rhonchi finding represent?
o low pitched snoring or moaning sounds heard in bronchitis
• Understand what tactile fremitus assesses
o Also, the nurse can palpate for vocal (or tactile) fremitus which
is vibration that is felt when the client says something like
“ninety-nine”. The vibration should feel symmetric in intensity
and decrease as you move your hands downward over the
posterior thorax. The ulnar surface of the hand is most sensitive
to the sensation of vibration but the palm can also be used. If
you feel increased fremitus over a particular area, it may
indicate consolidation such as pneumonia as sound conducts
better through a dense structure rather than a porous one.
Decreased fremitus can indicate a problem such as
pneumothorax or emphysema.
• Know why side-to-side pattern is used during a respiratory assessment
o Auscultation of the lungs should be performed in a
systematic manner, listening side to side, either right to left
then right to left or right to left then left to right.
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Health Assessment form (Latest ) Rasmussen
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o To make sure sounds are symmetrical
• Know what course crackles, stridor, and wheezes are and what they sound
like
o crackles (crackling and popping sounds heard in issues like
pneumonia)
o stridor (high pitched, inspiratory crowing, heard with
croup or upper airway obstruction from foreign body).
This study source was downloaded by 100000831777157 from CourseHero.com on 04-22-2022 05:15:47 GMT -05:00
https://www.coursehero.com/file/75962390/Physical-Assessment-Module-9-Quiz-Study-Guidedocx/
