NUR 505 EXAMINATION QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔HITS - ✔✔H- hurt
I - insult
T - threats
S - scream
screening tool for domestic violence/abuse
✔✔PVS - ✔✔Partner Violence Screen
- should be used to screen all female pts routinely
- includes injuries that are inconsistent with explanations
- frequent visits
✔✔FICA - ✔✔F- faith
I - importance
C - community
A - action/address
spirituality
✔✔What are the 5 Ps of a sexual history? - ✔✔Partners
Practices
Protection from STIs
Past history of STIs
Prevention of pregnancy
✔✔What is the RESPECT model? - ✔✔Rapport
Empathy
Support
Partnership
Explanations
Cultural Competence
Trust
, ✔✔standard precautions - ✔✔considered 1st tier
used with all patients
prevention of blood borne pathogens
use of hand hygiene, safe injection/handling of equipment
✔✔transmission based precautions - ✔✔second tier
addition to standard
airborne, droplet, contact
✔✔Who is most at risk for a latex allergy? - ✔✔health care workers and patients with
multiple surgeries
✔✔Why do people get an allergy to latex? - ✔✔it occurs when the bodies immune
system reacts with the proteins found in latex with exposure
✔✔irritant contact dermatitis - ✔✔chemical irritation that does not involve the immune
system - dry itching irritated skin
✔✔Type IV detmatitis - ✔✔allergic contact dermatitis that involves the immune system
and is caused by the chemicals used in latex products (24-48 hrs after contact)
✔✔Type 1 systemic reactions - ✔✔true allergic reaction caused by protein antibodies
(immunoglobulin E) that form as a result from interaction between a foreign protein and
the bodies immune system
✔✔What is the pneumatic attachment to the otoscope used for? - ✔✔evaluate
fluctuating capacity of tympanic membrane
✔✔stethoscope - bell - ✔✔low-pitched sounds - extra heart sounds, murmurs, and
blood pressure
hold lightly against pts skin (pressing too tightly causes it to act as a diaphragm)
✔✔stethoscope - diaphragm - ✔✔high pitched sounds (breath, bowel, and normal heart
sounds)
Hold firm against patient's skin
✔✔expected sound over gastric bubble - ✔✔tympany - loud high drum-like
✔✔expected sound over healthy lung - ✔✔resonance - loud, low, hollow
✔✔unexpected sound over lungs - ✔✔hyper resonance - very loud, low, booming
seen with emphysematous lungs
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔HITS - ✔✔H- hurt
I - insult
T - threats
S - scream
screening tool for domestic violence/abuse
✔✔PVS - ✔✔Partner Violence Screen
- should be used to screen all female pts routinely
- includes injuries that are inconsistent with explanations
- frequent visits
✔✔FICA - ✔✔F- faith
I - importance
C - community
A - action/address
spirituality
✔✔What are the 5 Ps of a sexual history? - ✔✔Partners
Practices
Protection from STIs
Past history of STIs
Prevention of pregnancy
✔✔What is the RESPECT model? - ✔✔Rapport
Empathy
Support
Partnership
Explanations
Cultural Competence
Trust
, ✔✔standard precautions - ✔✔considered 1st tier
used with all patients
prevention of blood borne pathogens
use of hand hygiene, safe injection/handling of equipment
✔✔transmission based precautions - ✔✔second tier
addition to standard
airborne, droplet, contact
✔✔Who is most at risk for a latex allergy? - ✔✔health care workers and patients with
multiple surgeries
✔✔Why do people get an allergy to latex? - ✔✔it occurs when the bodies immune
system reacts with the proteins found in latex with exposure
✔✔irritant contact dermatitis - ✔✔chemical irritation that does not involve the immune
system - dry itching irritated skin
✔✔Type IV detmatitis - ✔✔allergic contact dermatitis that involves the immune system
and is caused by the chemicals used in latex products (24-48 hrs after contact)
✔✔Type 1 systemic reactions - ✔✔true allergic reaction caused by protein antibodies
(immunoglobulin E) that form as a result from interaction between a foreign protein and
the bodies immune system
✔✔What is the pneumatic attachment to the otoscope used for? - ✔✔evaluate
fluctuating capacity of tympanic membrane
✔✔stethoscope - bell - ✔✔low-pitched sounds - extra heart sounds, murmurs, and
blood pressure
hold lightly against pts skin (pressing too tightly causes it to act as a diaphragm)
✔✔stethoscope - diaphragm - ✔✔high pitched sounds (breath, bowel, and normal heart
sounds)
Hold firm against patient's skin
✔✔expected sound over gastric bubble - ✔✔tympany - loud high drum-like
✔✔expected sound over healthy lung - ✔✔resonance - loud, low, hollow
✔✔unexpected sound over lungs - ✔✔hyper resonance - very loud, low, booming
seen with emphysematous lungs
