Practice Material
Aortic - correct answer ✔✔ When the nurse is auscultating a client's chest at the 2nd ICS right
sternal boarder which valve area of the heart are they assessing?
Bronchovesicular - correct answer ✔✔ The nurse is auscultating over the major bronchi and
hears breath sounds of moderate pitch and equal inspiration & expiration. The nurse will
document this finding as:
body image - correct answer ✔✔ When performing a subjective abdominal assessment on an
adolescent, the nurse knows to assess the client's _____________ due to developmental
considerations for this age group.
the pulse deficit - correct answer ✔✔ Each heart beat the nurse auscultates at the apex should
perfuse to the periphery and be palpable. When different, subtract the radial heart from the
apical, and record the remainder as _________/
crackles - correct answer ✔✔ The nurse is auscultating a client's lungs and hear high-pitched,
short cracking during inspiration. How does the nurse document this finding?
Tympany - correct answer ✔✔ The nurse is performing light percussion on a health adult
client's abdomen. Which finding should the nurse expect?
"What is your usual amount of exercise?" - correct answer ✔✔ The nurse is performing a
focused health history of a client and asks which question to BEST assess the client's cardiac risk
factors?