NUR 2092 Health Assessment Exam 2
with Correct Answers
If you are doing a cardiovascular assessment and you are hearing a
bruit/swooshing sounds in the patients carotid artery, what does this mean?
- 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Narrow vessel (Most likely filled with plaque buildup)
If you are doing a Snellen eye exam from 20 feet away what are you
testing? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Farsided eye sight
What are 4 things that the skin does? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Prevention of
penetration, temperature regulation, absorbs Vitamin D and wound repair
(repairs itself)
What cannot the skin do? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Prevent the loss of fluids
,When you are doing a lung assessment you should listen from what
direction to what direction? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Right to left
What is the Jaeger card used for? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Testing nearsided eye
sight
If a mole on a patients skin has abnormal pigmentation and is itchy, at what
size does the mole become suspicious? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔6 mm
What are you listening for when listening to bowel sounds? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Gurgling
If you do not hear any sounds after 1 minute of listening to bowel sounds,
what do you do? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Listen for 4 more minutes for a total of 5
minutes.
What is a hypoactive bowel sound? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A distant bowel sound
(Likely constipation. Only hearing gurgles every 1-2 minutes)
What is an indication if a patient has yellow skin? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Jaundice. A liver problem
If you are palpating lymph nodes in front of the ear, what lymph nodes are
you palpating? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Preoricular
, If you are doing an abdominal assessment and you only heat a few gurgles
every 1-2 minutes, what should you suspect is going on with the patient? -
🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Constipation
What should you always ask a patient when doing an abdominal
assessment? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔When was your last bm (No bm in 3 days
indicates constipation)
What is cyanoisis? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔No oxygen exchange
Which of the following patients would take highest priority: Jaundice yellow
skin, Pale skin and vomiting or Cyanotic? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Cyanotic
(Patient is not getting proper amounts of oxygen exchange)
What are some good assessment questions to ask someone that may be
having an allergic reaction? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Have you been using any
new soaps, lotions, detergent, etc.
When assessing radial pulses, what is it important to do? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Assess one side to the other (Should feel both sides at same time to
compare)
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with Correct Answers
If you are doing a cardiovascular assessment and you are hearing a
bruit/swooshing sounds in the patients carotid artery, what does this mean?
- 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Narrow vessel (Most likely filled with plaque buildup)
If you are doing a Snellen eye exam from 20 feet away what are you
testing? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Farsided eye sight
What are 4 things that the skin does? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Prevention of
penetration, temperature regulation, absorbs Vitamin D and wound repair
(repairs itself)
What cannot the skin do? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Prevent the loss of fluids
,When you are doing a lung assessment you should listen from what
direction to what direction? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Right to left
What is the Jaeger card used for? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Testing nearsided eye
sight
If a mole on a patients skin has abnormal pigmentation and is itchy, at what
size does the mole become suspicious? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔6 mm
What are you listening for when listening to bowel sounds? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Gurgling
If you do not hear any sounds after 1 minute of listening to bowel sounds,
what do you do? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Listen for 4 more minutes for a total of 5
minutes.
What is a hypoactive bowel sound? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A distant bowel sound
(Likely constipation. Only hearing gurgles every 1-2 minutes)
What is an indication if a patient has yellow skin? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Jaundice. A liver problem
If you are palpating lymph nodes in front of the ear, what lymph nodes are
you palpating? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Preoricular
, If you are doing an abdominal assessment and you only heat a few gurgles
every 1-2 minutes, what should you suspect is going on with the patient? -
🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Constipation
What should you always ask a patient when doing an abdominal
assessment? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔When was your last bm (No bm in 3 days
indicates constipation)
What is cyanoisis? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔No oxygen exchange
Which of the following patients would take highest priority: Jaundice yellow
skin, Pale skin and vomiting or Cyanotic? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Cyanotic
(Patient is not getting proper amounts of oxygen exchange)
What are some good assessment questions to ask someone that may be
having an allergic reaction? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Have you been using any
new soaps, lotions, detergent, etc.
When assessing radial pulses, what is it important to do? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Assess one side to the other (Should feel both sides at same time to
compare)
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