Exam 2: NR302/ NR 302 Health Assessment I
Exam Review | Guide with Questions and
Verified Answers| 2023/ 2024 Update –
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Q: Why do you listen to the lung fields in a side to side pattern>
Answer: to compare findings
Q: Bronchovesicular lung sounds will be heard over what area’s in the chest?-
Answer: Chest and medium size airways
Q: Vesicular breath sounds are heard over?
Answer: Peripheral lung fields
Q: Clubbing of the nails can indicate what kind of disease process?
Answer: Respira- tory
Q: An opacity of the lens of the eye is called?
Answer: cataract
Q: A primary open angle glaucoma can cause what?
Answer: gradual loss of peripheral vision
Q: Environmental exposure to smoke, premature birth and position while taking a bottle are all
risk factors for?
Answer: Otitis media
Q: What is varicella?
Answer: Chicken pox, contagious viral skin lesion that presents with vesicles
Q: Muscles that expand chest size to help breath, muscles inbetween the ribs and decrease chest
size to help exhale are what kind of muscles?
Answer: Intercostal muscles
Q: Deep vein thrombosis could lead to?
Answer: Pulmonary embolism
Q: What do these symptoms describe?
barrel chest weight gain
clubbed fingers
Answer: COPD
Q: What kind of communication does this describe? Closed questions
Belittling
Judgmental responses
Answer: Nontherapeutic communication
Q: These are important for fluid balance and thermoregulation?
Answer: Sweat glands:
apocrine glands and eccrine glands
Q: What do these functions describe? Protection for environment
Prevents penetration
Perception
Temperature regulation
Identification
Wound repair
Absorption and excretion
Production of vitamin D
Answer: Functions of skin
Q: What skin structures can be affected by women that are pregnant?
Answer: In- crease secretion of sweat and sebaceous glands (from increase of metabolism)
Expected skin color
Fat deposits
Q: What happens to the elasticity of the skin in aging adults?
Answer: Loses elasticity, the skin folds and sags
Q: What happens to the glands of the skin in aging adults?
Answer: Decrease in number and function, leaving the skin dry