Health Assessment Practice Questions With
Correct Answers A+ Graded 2026/2027
Which is not a skills requisite?
A: Inspection
B: Palpation
C: Vital signs
D: Percussion - correct answerC: Vital Signs
What are some things you are looking for during palpation? - correct answerTemperature,
Moisture, Texture, Lumps
Over what tissue would you expect to hear resonance?
A: Stomach
B: Lungs
C: Brain
D: Bones - correct answerB: Lungs
Over what tissue would you expect to hear tympany?
A: Lungs
B: Bone
C: Brain
D: Stomach - correct answerD: Stomach
Over what tissue would you expect to hear a dull sound?
A: Stomach
,B: Bone
C: Liver
D: Lungs - correct answerC: Liver
Over what tissue would you expect to hear a flat sound?
A: Lung
B: Bone
C: Muscle
D: Stomach
E: B&C - correct answerE: Bone & Muscle
When is NOT best to use the diaphragm of the stethoscope?
A: Heart murmur
B: Breathing
C: Bowl sounds
D: High-pitched - correct answerA: Heart murmer
How should you listen to heart and lung sounds?
A: Over a gown
B: Touching the skin - correct answerB: Touching the skin
What position is correct for inserting a rectal suppository?
A: Lithotomy
B: Sims
C: Dorsal Recumbent
D: Supine - correct answerB: Sims
, Taking an axillary temperature on an adult will result in a temperature reading that is:
A: One degree lower
B: Accurate
C: One degree higher
D: Same as Oral - correct answerA: One degree lower
What is a full & bounding pulse force?
A: 3+
B: 2+
C: 1+
D: 0 - correct answerA: 3+
What is inversely related to blood pressure?
A: Cardiac output
B: Viscosity
C: Elasticity
D: Peripheral vascular resistance - correct answerC: Elasticity
What category of blood pressure is 142/95?
A: Normal
B: Prehypertension
C: Hypertension I
D: Hypertension II - correct answerC: Hypertension I
Which describes orthostatic blood pressure?
Correct Answers A+ Graded 2026/2027
Which is not a skills requisite?
A: Inspection
B: Palpation
C: Vital signs
D: Percussion - correct answerC: Vital Signs
What are some things you are looking for during palpation? - correct answerTemperature,
Moisture, Texture, Lumps
Over what tissue would you expect to hear resonance?
A: Stomach
B: Lungs
C: Brain
D: Bones - correct answerB: Lungs
Over what tissue would you expect to hear tympany?
A: Lungs
B: Bone
C: Brain
D: Stomach - correct answerD: Stomach
Over what tissue would you expect to hear a dull sound?
A: Stomach
,B: Bone
C: Liver
D: Lungs - correct answerC: Liver
Over what tissue would you expect to hear a flat sound?
A: Lung
B: Bone
C: Muscle
D: Stomach
E: B&C - correct answerE: Bone & Muscle
When is NOT best to use the diaphragm of the stethoscope?
A: Heart murmur
B: Breathing
C: Bowl sounds
D: High-pitched - correct answerA: Heart murmer
How should you listen to heart and lung sounds?
A: Over a gown
B: Touching the skin - correct answerB: Touching the skin
What position is correct for inserting a rectal suppository?
A: Lithotomy
B: Sims
C: Dorsal Recumbent
D: Supine - correct answerB: Sims
, Taking an axillary temperature on an adult will result in a temperature reading that is:
A: One degree lower
B: Accurate
C: One degree higher
D: Same as Oral - correct answerA: One degree lower
What is a full & bounding pulse force?
A: 3+
B: 2+
C: 1+
D: 0 - correct answerA: 3+
What is inversely related to blood pressure?
A: Cardiac output
B: Viscosity
C: Elasticity
D: Peripheral vascular resistance - correct answerC: Elasticity
What category of blood pressure is 142/95?
A: Normal
B: Prehypertension
C: Hypertension I
D: Hypertension II - correct answerC: Hypertension I
Which describes orthostatic blood pressure?
