CCBC NURN155 CORRECT FINALS ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Heat Loss - ✔✔- Vasodilation
- Diaphoresis
- Inhibit heat production
- Peripheral vasodilation
✔✔Hypothalamus - ✔✔Core temperature regulation
✔✔Factors that influence temperature - ✔✔- Age
- Diurnal variations
- Exercise
- Hormones
- Stress
- Environment
- Illness
✔✔Tachycardia - ✔✔Rapid heart rate
✔✔Bradycardia - ✔✔Slow heart rate
✔✔Stroke Volume - ✔✔The amount of blood ejected from the heart in one contraction.
✔✔Cardiac Output - ✔✔Heart rate x Stroke volume
✔✔Pulse Characteristics - ✔✔0 no pulse detected
1+ pulse diminished, weak, thready
2+ easily palpable, normal pulse
3+ Full pulse, increased
4+ Strong, bounding pulse
✔✔Factors Affecting Pulse - ✔✔- Sex
- Exercise
, - Food
- Stress
- Fever
- Disease
- Blood loss
- Medications
✔✔Pulse Assessment sites - ✔✔
✔✔Radial Pulse - ✔✔Used most commonly in adults
✔✔Carotid Pulse - ✔✔Closest to heart, use in emergency
Never palpate both sides!
Reflects heart function best
✔✔Apical Pulse - ✔✔Most accurate
Place the stethoscope in the 5th intercostal space to the left of the sternum and slightly
medial of the left mid-clavicular line
✔✔Brachial Pulse - ✔✔Use in infants/children
Auscultated in BP
✔✔Femoral Pulse - ✔✔Used in emergencies
✔✔Popliteal, Posterior Tibial & Dorsalis Pedis Pulse - ✔✔Used to monitor circulation
✔✔Document Pulse - ✔✔0800 (TIME) 2/3/2015 (DATE) Bilateral radial pulses
(LOCTION) 84 bpm (NUMERIC VALUE) Regular (REG/IRREG), 2+ (STRENGTH), and
equal bilaterally (SYMMETRY) S. Toad RN (NAME)
✔✔Eupnea - ✔✔Normal respirations
✔✔Apnea - ✔✔Absence of breathing
✔✔Tachypnea - ✔✔Rapid breathing
✔✔Bradypnea - ✔✔Abnormally slow breathing
✔✔Cheyne-Stokes - ✔✔Abnormal breathing pattern; periods of dyspnea and apnea
✔✔Kussmauls - ✔✔Deep, rapid respiration
✔✔Factors Affecting Breathing - ✔✔- Age
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Heat Loss - ✔✔- Vasodilation
- Diaphoresis
- Inhibit heat production
- Peripheral vasodilation
✔✔Hypothalamus - ✔✔Core temperature regulation
✔✔Factors that influence temperature - ✔✔- Age
- Diurnal variations
- Exercise
- Hormones
- Stress
- Environment
- Illness
✔✔Tachycardia - ✔✔Rapid heart rate
✔✔Bradycardia - ✔✔Slow heart rate
✔✔Stroke Volume - ✔✔The amount of blood ejected from the heart in one contraction.
✔✔Cardiac Output - ✔✔Heart rate x Stroke volume
✔✔Pulse Characteristics - ✔✔0 no pulse detected
1+ pulse diminished, weak, thready
2+ easily palpable, normal pulse
3+ Full pulse, increased
4+ Strong, bounding pulse
✔✔Factors Affecting Pulse - ✔✔- Sex
- Exercise
, - Food
- Stress
- Fever
- Disease
- Blood loss
- Medications
✔✔Pulse Assessment sites - ✔✔
✔✔Radial Pulse - ✔✔Used most commonly in adults
✔✔Carotid Pulse - ✔✔Closest to heart, use in emergency
Never palpate both sides!
Reflects heart function best
✔✔Apical Pulse - ✔✔Most accurate
Place the stethoscope in the 5th intercostal space to the left of the sternum and slightly
medial of the left mid-clavicular line
✔✔Brachial Pulse - ✔✔Use in infants/children
Auscultated in BP
✔✔Femoral Pulse - ✔✔Used in emergencies
✔✔Popliteal, Posterior Tibial & Dorsalis Pedis Pulse - ✔✔Used to monitor circulation
✔✔Document Pulse - ✔✔0800 (TIME) 2/3/2015 (DATE) Bilateral radial pulses
(LOCTION) 84 bpm (NUMERIC VALUE) Regular (REG/IRREG), 2+ (STRENGTH), and
equal bilaterally (SYMMETRY) S. Toad RN (NAME)
✔✔Eupnea - ✔✔Normal respirations
✔✔Apnea - ✔✔Absence of breathing
✔✔Tachypnea - ✔✔Rapid breathing
✔✔Bradypnea - ✔✔Abnormally slow breathing
✔✔Cheyne-Stokes - ✔✔Abnormal breathing pattern; periods of dyspnea and apnea
✔✔Kussmauls - ✔✔Deep, rapid respiration
✔✔Factors Affecting Breathing - ✔✔- Age
