NURA 1100 Final Exam Questions with Correct Answers Latest Update 2026/2027

NURA 1100 Final Exam Questions with Correct Answers Latest Update 2026/2027 What type of assessment is needed for a patient having SOB? - Answers Focused respiratory assessment What are some things you would assess during a focused respiratory assessment? - Answers Respiratory rate, O2 sat, pattern, breath sounds, nasal flaring, chest expansion List 3 adventitious breath sounds - Answers Crackles, rhonchi, and wheezing List nursing interventions for crackles - Answers Diuretics, elevate HOB 90 degrees List nursing interventions for rhonchi - Answers Encourage cough, increase fluids, avoid dairy List nursing interventions for wheezing - Answers bronchodilators, anti-inflammatories What adventitious breath sound CAN be cleared by coughing? - Answers Rhonchi C/o leg pain, errythema, warmth, and swelling indicates? - Answers Deep vein thrombosis DVT What medications are DVTs treated with? - Answers coumadin and heparin How does the nurse assess vocal (tactile) fremitus? - Answers "99" Define atelectasis - Answers collapse of the alveoli in the bases of the lungs List interventions to prevent atelectasis - Answers TCDB, incentive spirometer, CPT, elevate HOB, encourage fluids Define pneumothorax - Answers collapse of whole lung How is pneumothorax treated? - Answers chest tube List symptoms of cardiovascular disease - Answers cyanosis, arrhythmia, edema, prolonged cap. refill, angina, SOB; dyspnea, fatigue, thready pulse How does a nurse assess chest excursion? - Answers place thumbs on back, instruct to "take a deep breath," thumbs should move apart about 5" What could be indicative of thumbs not moving about 5" on each side during an assessment of chest excursion? - Answers a collapsed lung What is the nurse's action when finding an irregular-shaped pupil in one eye? - Answers Ask, "were you born with this?" What would patient data of "smokes cigarettes" indicate? - Answers Need for a focused assessment What questions would a nurse ask a smoker? - Answers How much? how long? What kind? Cough? Productive? Color? Name abnormal heart sounds - Answers Murmur, rub, gallop, S3, S4 What is a common abnormal heart sound after open heart surgery? - Answers Rub Name the characteristics that are noted when assessing a radial pulse. - Answers Rate, rhythm, strength, equality, and elasticity. Where is the FIRST location that the nurse would place her stethoscope to auscultate heart valves? - Answers Right second intercostal space Where is the SECOND location that the nurse would place her stethoscope to auscultate heart valves? - Answers Left second intercostal space Where is the THIRD location that the nurse would place her stethoscope to auscultate heart valves? - Answers Left third intercostal space Where is the FOURTH location that the nurse would place her stethoscope to auscultate heart valves? - Answers Left fourth intercostal space Where is the FIFTH location that the nurse would place her stethoscope to auscultate heart valves? - Answers Left fifth intercostal space midclavicular line What is the name of the FIRST valve auscultated during a cardiovascular assessment? - Answers Aortic What is the name of the SECOND valve auscultated during a cardiovascular assessment? - Answers Pulmonic What is the name of the THIRD valve auscultated during a cardiovascular assessment? - Answers Erb's point What is ANOTHER name for the THIRD valve auscultated during a cardiovascular assessment? - Answers Second pulmonic What is the name of the FOURTH valve auscultated during a cardiovascular assessment? - Answers Tricuspid What is the name of the FIFTH valve auscultated during a cardiovascular assessment? - Answers Mitral What are OTHER common names of the FIFTH valve auscultated during a cardiovascular assessment? - Answers Apex and point of maximal impulse (PMI) What causes the S1 heart sound? - Answers Closing of the tricuspid valve What causes the S2 heart sound? - Answers Closing of the mitral valve Where is S1 best heard? - Answers Mitral valve (apex or PMI) Where is S2 best heard? - Answers Aortic valve Name 3 normal breath sounds - Answers Bronchial, bronchovesicular, and vesicular Where can bronchial breath sounds be heard? - Answers Anterior over the trachea Where can bronchovesicular breath sounds be heard? - Answers Anterior and posterior