1. Question: When conducting a geriatric assessment, basic activities of daily living (ADLs) include:
2. Question: When palpating breast tissue, the examiner should use the at each site.
3. Question: You are reviewing an ECG of a 43year old new patient. The patient has a history of second-degree ...
Course NURS-6512N-34-Advanced Health Assessment-Summer-
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Question 1
When conducting a geriatric assessment, basic activities of daily living
(ADLs) include:
Selected bathin
Answer: g.
Question 2
When palpating breast tissue, the examiner should use the at each
site.
Selected finger pads,
Answer: gliding
Question 3
You are reviewing an ECG of a 43 year old new patient. The patient has a history of second-degree
heart block. The ECG shows the PR interval is increases with each beat until a QRS is dropped. What
is this type of block called?
Selected
Answer: Second degree heart block, type 1: Wenckebach/Mobitz 1
Question 4
Throughout the history and physical examination, the clinician should:
Selected evaluate the whole
Answer: patient.
Question 5
The spread of the impulse through the ventricles (ventricular
depolarization) is depicted on the ECG as the:
Selected QRS
Answer: complex.
Question 6
, You are inspecting the genitalia of an uncircumcised adult male. The
foreskin is tight and cannot be easily retracted. You should:
Selected inquire about previous penile
Answer: infections.
Question 7
Loss of immediate and recent memory with retention of remote memory
suggests:
Selected dementi
Answer: a.
Question 8
To hear diastolic heart sounds, you should ask patients to:
Selected lie on their left
Answer: sides.
Question 9
While examining a 30-year-old woman, you note that one breast is
slightly larger than the other. In response to this finding, you should:
Selected note the finding in the patient's
Answer: record.
Question 10
To spread the breast tissue evenly over the chest wall, you should ask the
woman to lie supine with:
Selected one arm overhead and a pillow under her
Answer: shoulder.
Question 11
A pulsation that is diminished to the point of being barely palpable would
be graded as:
Selected 1
Answer:
Question 12
Which of the following statements is true regarding the examination of
peripheral arteries?
, Selected The pulses are most readily felt over bony
Answer: prominences.
Question 13
You order an ECG on a patient that c/o feeling heart palpitations, chest pain, shortness of breath.
Your ECG shows irregular heart rate and you determine that you need to call EMS immediately
because this rhythm can cause death. What rhythm would you suspect the ECG is showing?
Selected
Answer: Ventricular Tachycardia
Question 14
Breath sounds normally heard over the trachea are called:
Selected bronchi
Answer: al.
Question 15
The checkout station for preparticipation physical evaluation (PPE) is
critical because at this point:
Selected coordination of follow-ups is
Answer: reviewed.
Question 16
Palpation of epitrochlear nodes is part of the:
Selected examination of the upper
Answer: extremities.
Question 17
A positive straight leg raise test usually indicates:
Selected lumbar nerve root
Answer: irritation.
Question 18
A chest radiography is performed on your patient that complains of
having dyspnea, coughing productive sputum and chest pain. The image
results shows consolidation and infiltrates. You compare this to your
physical exam findings of distant or absent breath sounds and absent
vocal fremitus. What is the most likely diagnosis?
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