TIPS CERTIFICATION ACTUAL TEST PAPER
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
FULL SOLUTION
●● History of present illness HPI
Answer: Explains the chief complaint. A chronological description of the
development of the patient's present illness from the first sign or
symptom or from the previous encounter to the present.
●● Vital Signs
Answer: Temperature, pulse, respiration, and Blood pressure are all
___________ ___________.
●● Normal oral temperature
Answer: 97.6F - 99.6F
●● intermittent fever
Answer: Fever that alternates between elevated and normal or subnormal
body temperatures.
●● Remittent fever
Answer: fever in which temperature fluctuates greatly but never falls to
the normal level.
,●● Continuous fever
Answer: A fever that remains constant above the baseline, does not
fluctuate.
●● 60-100 BPM
Answer: Normal pulse rate
●● Respirations
Answer: Rate, rhythm, and depth are taken into account when measuring
what?
●● Systole
Answer: contraction of the heart
●● Diastole
Answer: relaxation of the heart
●● Anthropometric measurements
Answer: Measurement of height, (length rather than height is used in
infants because they cannot stand.), weight, BMI, head circumference in
infants, waist to hip, % of body fat.
, ●● Inspection
Answer: General appearance, state of nutrition, body habits, symmetry,
pasture and gait, speech.
●● palpation
Answer: to examine by touch
●● Percussion
Answer: physical examination method of tapping over the body to elicit
vibrations and sounds to estimate the size, border, or fluid content of a
cavity such as the chest.
●● Ausculation
Answer: the act of listening to sounds arising within organs (as the lungs
or heart) as an aid to diagnosis and treatment.
●● OSHA
Answer: a government agency in the Department of Labor to maintain a
safe and healthy work environment
●● cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Answer: an emergency procedure for life support consisting of artificial
respiration and manual external cardiac compression
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
FULL SOLUTION
●● History of present illness HPI
Answer: Explains the chief complaint. A chronological description of the
development of the patient's present illness from the first sign or
symptom or from the previous encounter to the present.
●● Vital Signs
Answer: Temperature, pulse, respiration, and Blood pressure are all
___________ ___________.
●● Normal oral temperature
Answer: 97.6F - 99.6F
●● intermittent fever
Answer: Fever that alternates between elevated and normal or subnormal
body temperatures.
●● Remittent fever
Answer: fever in which temperature fluctuates greatly but never falls to
the normal level.
,●● Continuous fever
Answer: A fever that remains constant above the baseline, does not
fluctuate.
●● 60-100 BPM
Answer: Normal pulse rate
●● Respirations
Answer: Rate, rhythm, and depth are taken into account when measuring
what?
●● Systole
Answer: contraction of the heart
●● Diastole
Answer: relaxation of the heart
●● Anthropometric measurements
Answer: Measurement of height, (length rather than height is used in
infants because they cannot stand.), weight, BMI, head circumference in
infants, waist to hip, % of body fat.
, ●● Inspection
Answer: General appearance, state of nutrition, body habits, symmetry,
pasture and gait, speech.
●● palpation
Answer: to examine by touch
●● Percussion
Answer: physical examination method of tapping over the body to elicit
vibrations and sounds to estimate the size, border, or fluid content of a
cavity such as the chest.
●● Ausculation
Answer: the act of listening to sounds arising within organs (as the lungs
or heart) as an aid to diagnosis and treatment.
●● OSHA
Answer: a government agency in the Department of Labor to maintain a
safe and healthy work environment
●● cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Answer: an emergency procedure for life support consisting of artificial
respiration and manual external cardiac compression
