NR 302 Health Assessment I NR 302 Week 8 Final Exam
Comprehensive Practice
1. Question: Which assessment by the nurse most likely indicates that a
... [Show More] patient is having difficulty breathing? 2. Question: Which should a nurse always do when taking a rectal temperature? 3. Question: A nurse is assessing a patient’s ideal body Which significant factor should … takin into consideration when performing this assessment? 4. Question: A nurse asks a patient’s wife specific questions about the patient’s health status before When collecting this information, the nurse is seeking information from a: 5. Question: A nurse is preforming a physical assessment of a newly … Which patient statement communicates subjective data? 6. Question: A nurse takes a patient’s blood pressure and records a diastolic pressure of 120 mm Which should the nurse do first? 7. Question: A patient had a stroke that … in paralysis of the right When clustering data, the nurse … the following together: drooling of saliva and … speech. Which information is most significant to include with this … data? 8. Question: A patient who … a stroke has left-sided hemiparesis and is incontinent of Which is an appropriately … nursing diagnosis for this patient? 9. Question: A nurse uses the interviewing process of clarification when interviewing a Which is the nurse doing when this communication technique is used? 10. Question: A patient has dependent edema of the ankles and feet and is Which diet should the nurse expect the primary health-care provider to order? 11. Question: A patient who is undergoing cancer chemotherapy says to the nurse, “This is no way to ” Which response uses reflective techniques? 12. Question: A nurse is assessing a patient who reports being Which question should the nurse ask to elicit information … to urge incontinence? 13. Question: Which is the most common reason why older adults become incontinent of urine? 14. Question: What is the nurse doing when formulating a nursing diagnosis? 15. Question: A patient has just … from surgery with an intravenous solution infusing and does not have a gag reflex. Which … intervention takes priority? 16. Question: To provide aseptically safe perineal care to all female patients, which should the nurse do? 17. Question: A patient returns to the clinic after taking a 7-day course of antibiotic therapy and is still exhibiting signs of a urinary tract infection. Which should the … the nurse’s initial action? 18. Question: A newly … patient was … with a regular diet consisting of three traditional meals a After several days it was … that he patient was eating only approximately 50% of the meals and was losing weight. What should the nurse do? 19. Question: After surgery, a patient reports mild incisional pain while performing deep-breathing and coughing exercises. Which is he nurse’s best response: 20. Question: An example of a goal … by a nurse when planning a patient’s plan of care is, “The patient will: 21. Question: When obtaining a health history, the nurse identifies that a patient has … 10 pounds in the past week. Which step of the nursing process is … when the nurse documents this information in the patient’s clinical record? 22. Question: A nurse is conducting an intake interview with a Which should the nurse do first to facilitate therapeutic communication with this patient” 23. Question: Which concepts are important for the nurse to consider when interacting with others” Select all that 24. Question: A patient has expressive aphasia because of a Which should the nurse do when caring for this patient? Select all that apply. 25. Question: Which is the primary source for assessing how a patient slept? 26. Question: When a nurse goes into a room to take a patient’s temperature, the patient is drinking a cup of How long should the nurse wait to take the patient’s oral temperature? 27. Question: The function of which part of the anatomy is … when the nurse obtains a radial pulse rate? 28. Question: A nurse is assessing the temperature of a When can the nurse expect a patient’s temperature to … at its lowest?
29. Question: When making rounds, the nurse finds a patient in bed with the eyes Which should the nurse do? 30. Question: A nurse takes the resting pulse of an older adult. Which pulse is within the … range? 31. Question: A nurse obtains the rectal temperature of an Which rectal temperature is within the … range? 32. Question: A nurse obtains blood pressures of several Which blood pressure reading is … the most hypertensive? 33. Question: When assessing the heart rate of a patient, the nurse identifies a change in rate from 88 to 56 beats per minute. Which should the nurse do first? 34. Question: A function of which part of the anatomy is primarily being … when a nurse obtains a patient’s pedal pulse? 35. Question: Which principle of blood pressure physiology should the nurse understand when assessing a patient’s cardiac function? 36. Question: Which are examples of objective data? Select all that 37. Question: Which information about a patient is … as subjective data? Select all that apply. 38. Question: A nurse is caring for a patient who is coping with chronic Which psychological reactions to chronic pain may occur? Select all that apply. 39. Question: A nurse is working in a nursing home with a large population of older Which factors … to aging influence the nutritional status of older adults that the nurse should consider? Select all that apply. 40. Question: A patient reports being constipated. Which should the nurse encourage the patient to eat? 41. Question: A nurse is caring for a patient … with stress Which is the common underlying cause of stress incontinence that the nurse needs to consider when caring for this patient? 42. Question: A culture and sensitivity test of a patient’s urine is Which should the nurse do to ensure accurate results of a urine culture and sensitivity test? 43. Question: A nurse is assessing a patient for the presence of Which question should the nurse ask the patient? 44. Question: The “A” in the ABCDE rule for skin cancer stands for: 45. Question: Providing resistance while the patient shrugs his or her shoulders is a test of which cranial nerve? 46. Question: In examining the ear of an adult, the canal is … by pulling the auricle: 47. Question: When assessing a patient’s ear with an otoscope, the patient’s head should … positioned: 48. Question: When teaching the breast self-examination, you would inform the woman that the best time to conduct breast self-examination is: 49. Question: You are going to inspect a female patient’s breast for The best position for this part of the examination is: 50. Question: During the examination of a 70-year-old man, you note gynecomastia. You would: 51. Question: A function of the venous system includes: 52. Question: Atrophic skin changes that occur with peripheral arterial insufficiency include: 53. Question: Intermittent claudication includes: 54. Question: Raynaud phenomenon occurs: 55. Question: Select the sequence of events … during an examination of the 56. Question: Right upper quadrant tenderness may indicate pathology in the: 57. Question: The absence of bowel sounds is … after listening for: 58. Question: Auscultation of the abdomen may reveal bruits of which arteries? 59. Question: The left upper quadrant contains the: 60. Question: Shifting dullness is a test for: 61. Question: A positive Murphy’s sign is best … as: 62. Question: A positive Blumberg sign indicates: 63. Question: The medical record indicates that a person has an injury to Broca’s When meeting this person, you expect: 64. Question: The Glasgow Coma Scale is … into three areas. They include: 65. Question: During examination of the scrotum, a normal finding would … that: 66. Question: Prostatic hypertrophy occurs frequently in older The symptoms that may indicate this problem are: 67. Question: A 20-yeaer-old man has … that he does not perform a testicular self-examination. One of the facts that should … with him is that testicular cancer, although rare, does occur in men: 68. Question: During a transillumination of a scrotum, you note a nontender mass that transilluminates with a red This finding is suggestive of: 69. Question: The congenital displacement of the urethral meatus to the inferior surface of the penis is: 70. Question: An adhesion to the prepuce to the head of the penis, making it impossible to retract, is: 71. A patient has soft, moist, fleshy, painless papules around the The examiner suspects this condition is: 72. Question: Which finding in the prostate gland suggests prostate cancer? 73. Question: Which symptoms suggest benign prostatic hypertrophy? 74. Question: A patient states that he has frothy, foul –smelling stools that float on the surface of the water in the toilet bow, What type of stool is this patient describing? 75. Question: During the examination of the genitalia of a 70-year-old woman, a normal finding would be: [Show Less]