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...