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Answers |Actual Complete Exam |Already Graded A+
1. List the
Systolic Pressure: 120
normal systolic
Diastolic: 80
and dias-tolic
blood pres-
sure ranges
for an adult.

2. When Systolic Pressure Sound: faint but clear tapping sounds, first tapping is
measuring systolic pressure
blood
pressure, Diastolic Pressure: last sound heard before continuous silence, diastolic
pressure
describe when
you would
hear the
systolic and
diastolic read-
ings. Best to count respirations right after pulse with your fingers still on the
wrist; it is
3. Describe the
pro-
cedure for count- easy for the patient or resident to control breathing; watching the
chest rise and
ing taking an apical pulse.
respirations.
6. What is a normal adult pulse rate and
4. Define the what would
rhythm of a
pulse and the
quality. Give
examples.



5. Describe the
pro-cedure for


, Nur 158- Final Exam with all Correct & 100% Verified
Answers |Actual Complete Exam |Already Graded A+
fall or the stomach

Pulse Rhythm: The pattern of
pulsations and pauses
between them

Quality: smooth and regular
with the same amount of
time in between each
pulsation

Example: irregular pulse-
dysrhythmia

taken by listening over the
apex of the heart with a
stethoscope (pulse point is the
chest)


adult: 60- 100 beats

A pulse rate that is more
than a 100 beats and less
than 60 beets






, Nur 158- Final Exam with all Correct & 100% Verified
Answers |Actual Complete Exam |Already Graded A+
be reported
to the
nurse?
Is unconscious
7. In taking a Is unable to keep his mouth closed (necessary in order to keep the
resident's thermometer in place)
tem-perature,
Is unable to breathe through his nose
de-scribe 5 in- Is likely to bite the oral thermometer (for example, a child younger than
stances in 5 years, a disoriented person, or a person with a history of seizures)
which an oral
tempera-
ture route cannot Is coughing or sneezing
be used. Has recently had mouth surgery or an injury to the mouth
Is receiving oxygen by a face mask (because the oxygen may cause
the tempera-ture measurement to be inaccurate)

8. Where is a Tympanic Thermometer or ear
tym-panic
thermome-ter thermometer it is inserted into the ear
inserted and
what is anoth-
er name for
the tympanic
mem-brane?
involves physically removing or killing pathogens
9. Define the
term asepsis

10. Define immunity The ability of organisms to resist infection by protecting against
disease-causing microorganisms or their toxins, that invade their
bodies.

11. Define a acquired in-fection. What is another
health-care name for this infection?


, Nur 158- Final Exam with all Correct & 100% Verified
Answers |Actual Complete Exam |Already Graded A+
Healthcare Acquired

Infection: Infections people

get while a patient or resident

Another name: nosocomial

infections

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