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NUR 2092 Health Assessment Exam 2 Practice
Questions and Answers (100% Pass)
If you are doing a cardiovascular assessment and you are hearing a
bruit/swooshing sounds in the patients carotid artery, what does this
mean? - Answer✔️✔️-Narrow vessel (Most likely filled with plaque
buildup)
If you are doing a Snellen eye exam from 20 feet away what are you
testing? - Answer✔️✔️-Farsided eye sight
What are 4 things that the skin does? - Answer✔️✔️-Prevention of
penetration, temperature regulation, absorbs Vitamin D and wound
repair (repairs itself)
What cannot the skin do? - Answer✔️✔️-Prevent the loss of fluids
When you are doing a lung assessment you should listen from what
direction to what direction? - Answer✔️✔️-Right to left
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What is the Jaeger card used for? - Answer✔️✔️-Testing nearsided eye
sight
If a mole on a patients skin has abnormal pigmentation and is itchy, at
what size does the mole become suspicious? - Answer✔️✔️-6 mm
What are you listening for when listening to bowel sounds? -
Answer✔️✔️-Gurgling
If you do not hear any sounds after 1 minute of listening to bowel
sounds, what do you do? - Answer✔️✔️-Listen for 4 more minutes for a
total of 5 minutes.
What is a hypoactive bowel sound? - Answer✔️✔️-A distant bowel sound
(Likely constipation. Only hearing gurgles every 1-2 minutes)
What is an indication if a patient has yellow skin? - Answer✔️✔️-
Jaundice. A liver problem
If you are palpating lymph nodes in front of the ear, what lymph nodes
are you palpating? - Answer✔️✔️-Preoricular
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If you are doing an abdominal assessment and you only heat a few
gurgles every 1-2 minutes, what should you suspect is going on with the
patient? - Answer✔️✔️-Constipation
What should you always ask a patient when doing an abdominal
assessment? - Answer✔️✔️-When was your last bm (No bm in 3 days
indicates constipation)
What is cyanoisis? - Answer✔️✔️-No oxygen exchange
Which of the following patients would take highest priority: Jaundice
yellow skin, Pale skin and vomiting or Cyanotic? - Answer✔️✔️-Cyanotic
(Patient is not getting proper amounts of oxygen exchange)
What are some good assessment questions to ask someone that may be
having an allergic reaction? - Answer✔️✔️-Have you been using any new
soaps, lotions, detergent, etc.
When assessing radial pulses, what is it important to do? - Answer✔️✔️-
Assess one side to the other (Should feel both sides at same time to
compare)
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NUR 2092 Health Assessment Exam 2 Practice
Questions and Answers (100% Pass)
If you are doing a cardiovascular assessment and you are hearing a
bruit/swooshing sounds in the patients carotid artery, what does this
mean? - Answer✔️✔️-Narrow vessel (Most likely filled with plaque
buildup)
If you are doing a Snellen eye exam from 20 feet away what are you
testing? - Answer✔️✔️-Farsided eye sight
What are 4 things that the skin does? - Answer✔️✔️-Prevention of
penetration, temperature regulation, absorbs Vitamin D and wound
repair (repairs itself)
What cannot the skin do? - Answer✔️✔️-Prevent the loss of fluids
When you are doing a lung assessment you should listen from what
direction to what direction? - Answer✔️✔️-Right to left
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What is the Jaeger card used for? - Answer✔️✔️-Testing nearsided eye
sight
If a mole on a patients skin has abnormal pigmentation and is itchy, at
what size does the mole become suspicious? - Answer✔️✔️-6 mm
What are you listening for when listening to bowel sounds? -
Answer✔️✔️-Gurgling
If you do not hear any sounds after 1 minute of listening to bowel
sounds, what do you do? - Answer✔️✔️-Listen for 4 more minutes for a
total of 5 minutes.
What is a hypoactive bowel sound? - Answer✔️✔️-A distant bowel sound
(Likely constipation. Only hearing gurgles every 1-2 minutes)
What is an indication if a patient has yellow skin? - Answer✔️✔️-
Jaundice. A liver problem
If you are palpating lymph nodes in front of the ear, what lymph nodes
are you palpating? - Answer✔️✔️-Preoricular
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If you are doing an abdominal assessment and you only heat a few
gurgles every 1-2 minutes, what should you suspect is going on with the
patient? - Answer✔️✔️-Constipation
What should you always ask a patient when doing an abdominal
assessment? - Answer✔️✔️-When was your last bm (No bm in 3 days
indicates constipation)
What is cyanoisis? - Answer✔️✔️-No oxygen exchange
Which of the following patients would take highest priority: Jaundice
yellow skin, Pale skin and vomiting or Cyanotic? - Answer✔️✔️-Cyanotic
(Patient is not getting proper amounts of oxygen exchange)
What are some good assessment questions to ask someone that may be
having an allergic reaction? - Answer✔️✔️-Have you been using any new
soaps, lotions, detergent, etc.
When assessing radial pulses, what is it important to do? - Answer✔️✔️-
Assess one side to the other (Should feel both sides at same time to
compare)
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