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NUR 101 ( LATEST 2024 / 2025 ) QUIZ 2 | GRADED A+ | PASSED | NEW FULL EXAM ACTUAL
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NUR 101 Quiz 21. Which structures are examined with an ophthalmoscope?
Answer
Internal structures of the eye
2. When you assess for vibration of the chest wall, which parts of your hand will you use?
Answer
Base of the fingers
3. Patient who presents with an upper respiratory infection. What is the single most important
actionyou can take as the examiner to decrease the spread of this infection?
Answer
Wash your hands
4. Which considerations should guide your approach to physical assessment of an older adult?
Answer
-The examination should be paced relative to the patient's individual needs and abilities
-Unless contraindicated, physical touch should be used to offset the diminishing loss of vision and
hearing
-Awareness that loss is inevitable and adaptation to loss affects health status.
5. Hyperresonance
Answer
Is a normal finding over a child's lung, but is an abnormal finding over the lungs in the adult,
indicating an increased amount of air, as occurs with emphysema.
6. Standard Precautions are designed to minimize the transmission of microorganisms from
which sources?
,Answer
Mucous membranes, Blood, Broken skin, Body fluids, and Nasal secretions
7. You should choose to cleanse your hands with soap and water rather than an alcohol-based
hand rub after caring for a patient with which type of
infection?
Answer
Is called for when hands are visibly dirty and when patients are infected with spore-forming
organisms
8. Clostridium difficile
Answer
spore forming bacterium which can be part of the normal intestinal flora
9. Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Answer
tuberculosis
10. At which stage in life is the standard head-to-toe physical examination sequence
implemented?
Answer
School-aged children
11. Which type of percussion note would you hear over an abdominal tumor?-
Answer
Flat
12. Dull percussion sounds are expected to be found
Answer
over the liver
13. Flat percussion sounds are expected to be found
Answer
, over muscles
14. Hyperresonant Percussion
Answer
Very loud, low, "boom like" (air/emphysema)
15. tympany from percussion is expected to be found
Answer
over a gastric bubble
16. In which settings is a person at greatest risk for acquiring a nosocomial infection?
Answer
Hospital and long-term care facility
17. Which factor is best assessed using the fingertips?
Answer
Skin texture.
18. During your examination, you should use the dorsa of your hand to assess which factor?
Answer
Temperature
19. When performing a physical examination, you should use your metacarpophalangeal
joints to assess which parameter?
Answer
Vibration
20. For what are you checking when you use light palpation?
Answer
Location of surface characteristics
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