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PNUR 104: FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE.
Vital signs - Answer✔Includes temperature, pulse, respiration, and blood pressure
Pain - Answer✔The fifth vital sign
Hypothalamus - Answer✔The regulation of body temperature is the job of what part of the
brain?
Febrile - Answer✔Having or showing the symptoms of a fever
Constant Fever - Answer✔A fever that remains elevated consistently and fluctuates very little.
Intermittent Fever - Answer✔A fever that rises and falls; for example, temperature is normal or
subnormal in the morning and elevates in the after-noon.
Remittent fever - Answer✔A fever that does not return to normal at all until the patient becomes
well.
Surface temperature - Answer✔The temperature of the skin.
Core Temperature - Answer✔The temperature of the deep tissues.
Core Temperature - Answer✔What temperature remains relatively constant?
98.6 F - Answer✔Normal body temperature
Low pitched - Answer✔The bell of a stethoscope transmits what kind of sound?
High pitched - Answer✔The diaphragm of a stethoscope transmits what kind of sound?
Rectal - Answer✔Red tipped thermometer is used where?
Oral (Mouth) - Answer✔Blue tipped thermometer is used where?
Ear - Answer✔Tympanic thermometer is used where?
105 F - Answer✔Temperatures exceeding what temperature can cause tissue damage?
Hyperthermia - Answer✔The condition of having an above normal temperature.
Hypothermia - Answer✔The condition of having a below normal temperature.
Tachycardia - Answer✔Pulse rate faster than 100 beat per minute.
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Bradycardia - Answer✔Pulse rate slower than 60 beats per minute.
60-100 - Answer✔Normal pulse range
Carotid - Answer✔Which pulse site is used when a patients condition suddenly deteriorates or is
used in emergencies?
No longer than 10 seconds - Answer✔How long do you assess the rate, rhythm, and strength of
the carotid pulse?
One full minute - Answer✔How long should the apical pulse be listened too?
medulla oblongata - Answer✔The rate of respirations is controlled by what part of the brain?
12-20 respirations per minute - Answer✔The normal respiratory rate range.
Tachypena - Answer✔Rapid respiratory rate.
Bradypena - Answer✔Slow respiratory rate.
Apnea - Answer✔Lack of spontaneous respirations.
Cheyne-Stokes respirations - Answer✔An abnormal pattern of respiration characterized by
alternating periods of apnea and deep rapid breathing.
Airway, Breathing, Circulation - Answer✔ABC's in emergency situations
Signs - Answer✔Objective data as perceived by the examiner.
Symptoms - Answer✔Subjective data as perceived by the patient.
Chronic disease - Answer✔What type of disease develops slowly and persists over a long period
of time, often for a person's lifetime?
Acute disease - Answer✔What type of disease develops abruptly with marked intensity of severe
signs and symptoms and then often subsides after a period of treatment?
nasal cannula - Answer✔The most common device for oxygen delivery.
Homeostasis - Answer✔The process of keeping body fluids in balance.
intracellular fluid - Answer✔Fluid within the cells.
Extracellur fluid - Answer✔Fluid outside the cells.
Intravascular fluid - Answer✔Fluid within the blood vessels.
interstitial fluid - Answer✔Fluid in tissues (between cells or in body spaces).
Osmoreceptors - Answer✔What receptors in the hypothalamus measure the concentration of the
blood?
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PNUR 104: FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE.
Vital signs - Answer✔Includes temperature, pulse, respiration, and blood pressure
Pain - Answer✔The fifth vital sign
Hypothalamus - Answer✔The regulation of body temperature is the job of what part of the
brain?
Febrile - Answer✔Having or showing the symptoms of a fever
Constant Fever - Answer✔A fever that remains elevated consistently and fluctuates very little.
Intermittent Fever - Answer✔A fever that rises and falls; for example, temperature is normal or
subnormal in the morning and elevates in the after-noon.
Remittent fever - Answer✔A fever that does not return to normal at all until the patient becomes
well.
Surface temperature - Answer✔The temperature of the skin.
Core Temperature - Answer✔The temperature of the deep tissues.
Core Temperature - Answer✔What temperature remains relatively constant?
98.6 F - Answer✔Normal body temperature
Low pitched - Answer✔The bell of a stethoscope transmits what kind of sound?
High pitched - Answer✔The diaphragm of a stethoscope transmits what kind of sound?
Rectal - Answer✔Red tipped thermometer is used where?
Oral (Mouth) - Answer✔Blue tipped thermometer is used where?
Ear - Answer✔Tympanic thermometer is used where?
105 F - Answer✔Temperatures exceeding what temperature can cause tissue damage?
Hyperthermia - Answer✔The condition of having an above normal temperature.
Hypothermia - Answer✔The condition of having a below normal temperature.
Tachycardia - Answer✔Pulse rate faster than 100 beat per minute.
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Bradycardia - Answer✔Pulse rate slower than 60 beats per minute.
60-100 - Answer✔Normal pulse range
Carotid - Answer✔Which pulse site is used when a patients condition suddenly deteriorates or is
used in emergencies?
No longer than 10 seconds - Answer✔How long do you assess the rate, rhythm, and strength of
the carotid pulse?
One full minute - Answer✔How long should the apical pulse be listened too?
medulla oblongata - Answer✔The rate of respirations is controlled by what part of the brain?
12-20 respirations per minute - Answer✔The normal respiratory rate range.
Tachypena - Answer✔Rapid respiratory rate.
Bradypena - Answer✔Slow respiratory rate.
Apnea - Answer✔Lack of spontaneous respirations.
Cheyne-Stokes respirations - Answer✔An abnormal pattern of respiration characterized by
alternating periods of apnea and deep rapid breathing.
Airway, Breathing, Circulation - Answer✔ABC's in emergency situations
Signs - Answer✔Objective data as perceived by the examiner.
Symptoms - Answer✔Subjective data as perceived by the patient.
Chronic disease - Answer✔What type of disease develops slowly and persists over a long period
of time, often for a person's lifetime?
Acute disease - Answer✔What type of disease develops abruptly with marked intensity of severe
signs and symptoms and then often subsides after a period of treatment?
nasal cannula - Answer✔The most common device for oxygen delivery.
Homeostasis - Answer✔The process of keeping body fluids in balance.
intracellular fluid - Answer✔Fluid within the cells.
Extracellur fluid - Answer✔Fluid outside the cells.
Intravascular fluid - Answer✔Fluid within the blood vessels.
interstitial fluid - Answer✔Fluid in tissues (between cells or in body spaces).
Osmoreceptors - Answer✔What receptors in the hypothalamus measure the concentration of the
blood?
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