HCA 201B STUDY EXAM GUIDE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Nonrebreather mask - ✔✔it is designed to prevent mixing of atmospheric air or the
air exhaled by the patient with the oxygen. This type of mask allows up to 90%
concentration of oxygen to be delivered
✔✔Venturi mask - ✔✔This type of mask increases the supply of total oxygen for
breathing, but the concentration of oxygen supplied is only about 24% to 28%
✔✔Thrombus - ✔✔Is a blood clot
✔✔The entire system from mouth to anus is how long - ✔✔30 feet (9 meters) long
✔✔Accessory organs are - ✔✔the teeth, tongue, salivary glands, liver, gall bladder, and
pancreas.
✔✔Each nephron - ✔✔is the basic working unit of the kidney.
✔✔The healthy adult produces how much unrine a day - ✔✔1500 mL
✔✔What should the support worker do when caring for clients with chest tubes -
✔✔keep connecting tube coiled on bed, turn and reposition the client, observe chest
drainage.
✔✔when caring for clients with chest tubes what should the support worker never do -
✔✔raise the drainage system above chest level
✔✔what is the major cause of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - ✔✔smoking
✔✔What is the correct term for respirations that are greater than 24 per minute -
✔✔tachypnea
✔✔What is the correct term for absence of breathing - ✔✔apnea
✔✔respiratory arrest occurs when - ✔✔breathing has stopped
✔✔where in the body is oxygen and carbon dioxide exchanged - ✔✔during inhalation
and exhalation
✔✔what does the pulmonary function test do - ✔✔measures the amount of air moving
into and out of the lungs
, ✔✔what is the correct term for respirations that are slow shallow and sometimes
irregular - ✔✔bradypnea
✔✔what is difficult labored or painful breathing called - ✔✔dyspnea
✔✔what position is when the client is sitting up in bed and leaning over a table in order
to breathe easier - ✔✔orthopneic position
✔✔what is another term for bloody sputum - ✔✔hemoptysis
✔✔the amount of hemoglobin that contains oxygen is referred to as - ✔✔oxygen
concentration
✔✔miss pyer is breathing very slow and cannot get enough Air into her lungs what is
this called - ✔✔respiratory depression
✔✔Recca a support worker is providing care to his resident who has a history of asthma
and is having an asthma attack what should he do - ✔✔Call for help
✔✔when a client is sensitive to a substance his or her body reacts with signs and
symptoms what are these called - ✔✔an allergy
✔✔carbon dioxide released from a car is considered to be what - ✔✔a pollutant
✔✔part of a lung has a collapsed what is the condition called - ✔✔Atecectasis
✔✔What is the correct term for reduced amount of oxygen in the blood - ✔✔hypoxemia
✔✔a radioisotope is administered for what reason - ✔✔lung scan
✔✔what is mucus from the respiratory tract that is expectorated through the mouth
called - ✔✔sputum
✔✔a client has a red heart and hot area along the course of a vein the support worker
knows This condition is - ✔✔phlebitis
✔✔When respirations gradually increase in rate and depths and then becomes shallow
and slow, it is called - ✔✔Chreyne Stokes respirations
✔✔what substance gives red blood cells their color - ✔✔hemoglobin
✔✔Harry has heart failure what does this mean - ✔✔the heart cannot pump blood
normally
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Nonrebreather mask - ✔✔it is designed to prevent mixing of atmospheric air or the
air exhaled by the patient with the oxygen. This type of mask allows up to 90%
concentration of oxygen to be delivered
✔✔Venturi mask - ✔✔This type of mask increases the supply of total oxygen for
breathing, but the concentration of oxygen supplied is only about 24% to 28%
✔✔Thrombus - ✔✔Is a blood clot
✔✔The entire system from mouth to anus is how long - ✔✔30 feet (9 meters) long
✔✔Accessory organs are - ✔✔the teeth, tongue, salivary glands, liver, gall bladder, and
pancreas.
✔✔Each nephron - ✔✔is the basic working unit of the kidney.
✔✔The healthy adult produces how much unrine a day - ✔✔1500 mL
✔✔What should the support worker do when caring for clients with chest tubes -
✔✔keep connecting tube coiled on bed, turn and reposition the client, observe chest
drainage.
✔✔when caring for clients with chest tubes what should the support worker never do -
✔✔raise the drainage system above chest level
✔✔what is the major cause of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - ✔✔smoking
✔✔What is the correct term for respirations that are greater than 24 per minute -
✔✔tachypnea
✔✔What is the correct term for absence of breathing - ✔✔apnea
✔✔respiratory arrest occurs when - ✔✔breathing has stopped
✔✔where in the body is oxygen and carbon dioxide exchanged - ✔✔during inhalation
and exhalation
✔✔what does the pulmonary function test do - ✔✔measures the amount of air moving
into and out of the lungs
, ✔✔what is the correct term for respirations that are slow shallow and sometimes
irregular - ✔✔bradypnea
✔✔what is difficult labored or painful breathing called - ✔✔dyspnea
✔✔what position is when the client is sitting up in bed and leaning over a table in order
to breathe easier - ✔✔orthopneic position
✔✔what is another term for bloody sputum - ✔✔hemoptysis
✔✔the amount of hemoglobin that contains oxygen is referred to as - ✔✔oxygen
concentration
✔✔miss pyer is breathing very slow and cannot get enough Air into her lungs what is
this called - ✔✔respiratory depression
✔✔Recca a support worker is providing care to his resident who has a history of asthma
and is having an asthma attack what should he do - ✔✔Call for help
✔✔when a client is sensitive to a substance his or her body reacts with signs and
symptoms what are these called - ✔✔an allergy
✔✔carbon dioxide released from a car is considered to be what - ✔✔a pollutant
✔✔part of a lung has a collapsed what is the condition called - ✔✔Atecectasis
✔✔What is the correct term for reduced amount of oxygen in the blood - ✔✔hypoxemia
✔✔a radioisotope is administered for what reason - ✔✔lung scan
✔✔what is mucus from the respiratory tract that is expectorated through the mouth
called - ✔✔sputum
✔✔a client has a red heart and hot area along the course of a vein the support worker
knows This condition is - ✔✔phlebitis
✔✔When respirations gradually increase in rate and depths and then becomes shallow
and slow, it is called - ✔✔Chreyne Stokes respirations
✔✔what substance gives red blood cells their color - ✔✔hemoglobin
✔✔Harry has heart failure what does this mean - ✔✔the heart cannot pump blood
normally
