NURS 6512N Week 2 Quiz 3

1. Guidelines for Standard Precautions indicate that mask and eye protection or a face mask should be worn while performing 2. Standard Precautions apply to all patients 3. According to the guidelines for Standard Precautions 4. One recommendation to prevent latex allergy is to 5. Which patient position is useful for auscultating heart tones? 6. Which technique is used during the history taking and the physical examination process? 7. Which examination technique should be used first? 8. The use of secondary, tangential lighting is most helpful in the detection of 9. A nonambulatory 80-year-old male patient tells the female nurse that he feels like he is having drainage from his rectum. Which initial nursing action is appropriate? 10. You are conducting a head to toe examination as part of a patient's preventive health assessment. The room has adequate lighting, and you have access to both sides of the examining table. What position should you assume while conducting this examination? 11. Which part of the examiner's hand is best for palpating vibration? 12. The dorsal surface of the hand is most often used for the assessment of 13. When conducting the abdominal examination, after you inspect, you proceed next to 14. Expected normal percussion tones include 15. When percussing, a dull tone is expected to be heard over 16. During percussion, the downward snap of the striking fingers should originate from the 17. Which technique is commonly used to elicit tenderness arising from the liver, gallbladder, or kidneys? 18. During auscultation, you can limit your perceptual field best by 19. You are auscultating a patient's chest. The sounds are not clear, and you are having difficulty distinguishing between respirations and heartbeats. What technique can you use to facilitate your assessment? 20. When examining the abdomen, which technique should be used first? 21. Auscultation should be carried out last except when examining 22. Which of the following statements is true regarding tympanic membrane temperature? 23. It is an accurate measurement of body temperature because the tympanic membrane shares its blood supply with the hypothalamus. 24. A scale used to assess a patient's weight should be calibrated 25. The height-measuring attachment of the standing platform scale should be pulled out 26. An infant should be placed in which position to have his or her height or length measured? 27. The stethoscope's diaphragm is most useful in the assessment of _____ sounds. 28. A rubber or plastic ring should be around the bell endpiece of a stethoscope to 29. Which technique should be used to stabilize the stethoscope during auscultation? 30. A patient in the emergency department has a concussion to the head. You suspect that the patient may also have a retinal hemorrhage. You are using the ophthalmoscope to examine the retina of this patient. Which aperture of the ophthalmoscope is most appropriate for this patient? 31. The Tumbling "E" vision acuity chart would most likely be used for _____ patients. 32. The pneumatic attachment for the otoscope is used to evaluate 33. The patient tells you that his ears are "stopped up." An objective assessment of this complaint is achieved by using a(n) 34. Tuning forks with a frequency of 500 to 1000 Hz are most commonly used to measure 35. To perform a deep tendon reflex measurement, you should 36. A variant of the percussion hammer is a neurologic hammer, which is equipped with which of the following? 37. When monitoring serial measurements, such as head circumference or abdominal girth, which procedure is best to ensure that the tape measure is placed in the same position each time? 38. Transillumination functions on the principle that 39. When performing transillumination of a body cavity, the use of which of the following could be harmful to the patient? 40. For a woman with a small vaginal opening, the examiner should use a _____ speculum.