Wilkes nsg 500 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Exam 3: NSG500 / NSG 500 (Latest 2024 / 2025) Advanced Health Assessment Review | Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - Wilkes Q: What is the best way to assess for joint effusion? Answer: Palpate; it will be feel soft an spongy (that's the fluid in the joint you are feeling) Q: Osteoarthritis; What is the tinel test? Answer: -tapping on ulnar side and indicates if medial nerve is involved Q: What is the phalen test? Answer: An exam that assess for carpal tunnel syndrome. -In...

Exam 2: NSG500 / NSG 500 (Latest 2024 / 2025) Advanced Health Assessment Complete Review | Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - Wilkes Q: How to differentiate between crackles and rhonchi? Answer: o Auscultate the lungs before and after the patient coughs. o Rhonchi can clear with coughing because they represent secretions in larger airways. Q: What is bronchophony? What does it indicate? Answer: Clarity and loudness of spoken sounds, extreme in presence of consolidation of ...

Exam 1: NSG500 / NSG 500 (Latest 2024 / 2025) Advanced Health Assessment Exam | Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - Wilkes Q: What might dullness percussed over the lungs indicate? Answer: atelectasis Q: What condition would you suspect if you heard hyperresonance while percussing the lungs? Answer: emphysema Q: What is proper placement of the non-dominant hand for indirect percussion? Answer: Palmar surface on the body, fingers spread Q: What is fist percussion used for? A...

NSG 500: Exam 2 (Latest 2024 / 2025): Advanced Health Assessment | Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - Wilkes What is the normal RR to HR ratio? 1:4 How much should the lower border of the liver drop with deep breath? 2-3 cm Distance person is from chart is what a normal person can see at 20 feet 20/20 vision Abnormal breath sounds Crackles Rhonchi Wheezes Friction Rub Mediastinal crunch What sound indicates COPD/Emphysema or restrictive lung disease? Decrea...

Exam 2: NSG500 / NSG 500 (Latest 2024 / 2025) Advanced Health Assessment Review | Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - Wilkes Q: Symptoms of tympanic membrane rupture Answer: Bloody/yellow discharge from ear, pain, hearing loss, tinnitus Q: Laryngeal obstruction Answer: Stridor Q: How to examine the ear in children vs. adults, and considerations in geriatrics Answer: Children/infant: Below 3 years old, down and back Adults: 3+ older, UP and back. Q: Risk factors for cataract...

Exam 1: NSG500 / NSG 500 (Latest 2024 / 2025) Advanced Health Assessment Exam Review | Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - Wilkes Q: What are examples of cognitive impairment findings in a patient? Answer: Inap- propriate laughing, flat affect, disheveled appearance, and communication may be altered Q: Different parts of the brain and what they activate; Parietal = Temporal = Frontal = Cerebral = Answer: Parietal = sensation Temporal = auditory Frontal = behavior/speech Cer...

Exam 3: NSG533 / NSG 533 (Latest 2024 / 2025) Advanced Pharmacology Complete Review | Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - Wilkes Q: Long-acting Inhaled B2-agonists Answer: -Provide 12-24 hours of bronchodilation after single dose -Useful for nocturnal symptoms -Chronic treatment for asthma as ADD-ON therapy for patients not controlled on low-medium dose of ICS -Helps reduce ICS amount necessary for control *-Not to be used a monotherapy (risk for severe attack)* -Salmeterol...

NSG500 / NSG 500 Exam 1 (Latest 2024 / 2025): Advanced Health Assessment | Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - Wilkes All exams except abdominal - ANSWER inspect, palpate, percuss, auscultate Tympanic - ANSWER A loud, high-pitched sound, similar to the sound of a drum, heard on percussion of a hollow space (eg, the empty stomach or a puffed out che...

The nurse is discussing BSEs with a postmenopausal woman. The best time for postmenopausal women to perform BSEs is: A. on the same same every month B. daily, during the shower or bath. C. One week after her menstrual period. D. every year with her annual gynecologic examination A. on the same day every month. Which of the following pulses should the nurse assess bilaterally, but separate one at a time? A. ulnar B. posterior tibial C. carotid D. radial C. carotid A 54 year ...