Nsg 316 nsg316 gcu health - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Exam 1: NSG316 / NSG 316 (Latest Update 2024 / 2025) Health Assessment Exam | Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - GCU Question: ABCDE(F) Answer: - A: ASYMMERTY: One half of the spot is unlike the other half. - B: BORDER: spot has an irregular, scalloped, or poorly defined border. - C: COLOR: varying colors from one area to the next, such as shades of tan, brown or black, or areas of white, red, or blue. - D: DIAMETER: usually greater than 6 millimeters, ...

Exam 3: NSG316 / NSG 316 (Latest Update 2024 / 2025) Health Assessment Exam | Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - GCU Question: What is diastole? Answer: ventricles relax and fill with blood; 2/3 of cardiac cycle Question: What is systole? Answer: heart's contraction, blood pumped from ventricles fills pulmonary and systemic arteries; 1/3 of cardiac cycle Question: Atrial systole occurs? Answer: during ventricular diastole Question: What...

Exam 2: NSG316 / NSG 316 (Latest Update 2024 / 2025) Health Assessment Exam | Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - GCU Question: Flaccidity Answer: Decreased muscle tone or hypotonia; muscle feels limp, soft, and flabby; muscle is weak and easily fatigued; limb feels like a rag doll. Lower motor neuron injury anywhere from the anterior horn cell in the spinal cord to the peripheral nerve (peripheral neuritis, poliomy Question: Spasticity Answer: Increas...

Exam 3: NSG316 / NSG 316 (Latest Update 2024 / 2025) Health Assessment Exam | Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - GCU Question: is decreased lung elasticity a normal change? Answer: yes, with age, the elasticity of lung tissue decreases, leading to reduced lung compliance and decreased ability to fully expand the lungs Question: is reduction in respiratory muscle strength a normal change with age? Answer: yes muscles involved in breathing, such as the dia...

Exam 2: NSG 316/ NSG316 (Latest 2024/ 2025 Update) Health Assessment Guide | Qs and As | 100% Correct| Grade A (Verified Answers)- GCU Q: abnormal postures Answer: decorticate rigidity decerebrate rigidity flaccid quadriplegia opisthotonos Q: decorticate rigidity Answer: flexion of arms, wrist, fingers. extension of legs, internal rotation of knees Q: decerebrate rigidity Answer: palms pronated, plantar flexion Q: flaccid quadriplegia Answer: c...

Final Exam: NSG 316/ NSG316 (Latest 2024/ 2025 Update) Health Assessment Guide | Qs and As | 100% Correct| Grade A (Verified Answers)- GCU Q: melena can be caused by Answer: taking iron meds Q: bright red blood in the stool may be due to Answer: hemorrhoids Q: developmental changes in men Answer: -testosterone decreases -pubic hair and penis size dec -testes dec in size/less firm Q: 2 main causes of end stage renal disease Answer: HTN and diabe...

Exam 3: NSG316 / NSG 316 (Latest Update 2024 / 2025) Health Assessment Exam | Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - GCU Question: why do we check the profile sign of nails? Answer: to check oxygenation levels, poor oxygenation causes clubbing, 160 degrees is normal Question: where are pedal pulses located? Answer: located on the top of the foot, can be hard to palpate on older adults use a doppler Question: what do you do if you can't find pedal p...