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Exam 2: NSG 3100 / NSG 3100 (Latest 2025/ 2026 Update) Fundamental Concepts & Skills for Nursing Practice I Guide| Questions & Answers| Grade A| 100% Correct (Verified Solutions)- Galen Q: Normal Temperature rate for adults ages 18-65 Answer: 97.6 - 99.5 Q: A person who maintains a normal body temperature is: Answer: Afebrile Q: Factors Affecting Temperature Answer: Age, Hormone, Exercise, Stress, circadian Rhythms, Environment and Smoking. Q: Temperature Regulation Answer: When the body becomes too cold it is called Hypothermia: Shivering increases heat production, sweating is inhibited to decrease heat loss, Vasoconstriction decreases heat loss. Q: What is Hyperthermia? Answer: Elevated body temperature Q: Nursing Interventions for Hyperthermia Answer: 1st assess and determine cause Remove excess blankets Adequate nutrition and fluids to meet increase metabolic demand Reduce physical activity to limit heat production Administer antipyretics Provide oral hygiene to keep mucous membranes moist. Provide cool sponge baths, cooling blankets, or packs. Q: Nursing Interventions for Hypothermia Answer: 1st assess and determine cause Warm environment Warm blankets Keep limbs close to body Cover head and feet Warm oral or IV fluids Warming pads/devices Q: Temperature Routes Answer: Oral (mostly used at the hospitals) Rectal Axillary Tympanic Temporal Q: You have delegated vital signs to assistive personnel. The assistant informs you that the patient has just finished a bowl of hot soup. The nurse's most appropriate advice would be to A. Take a rectal temperature. B. Take the oral temperature as planned. C. Advise the patient to drink a glass of cold water. D. Wait 30 minutes and take an oral temperature Answer: D. Wait 30 minutes and take an oral temperature Q: A nurse is caring for a patient who needs their temperature taken. Which of the following is appropriate for the nurse to do first? Answer: Ask the patient if they had anything to eat or drink, smoked, or exercised recently. Q: A nurse obtains an axillary temperature of 97.0 on her 80year old patient. Which of the following actions is most appropriate for her to take currently? Answer: Check documentation to see what the patient's baseline temperature is normally. Q: Pulse Answer: Normal Pulse is 60-100 bpm Q: Factors Affecting Pulse Answer: Age: HR decreases with age Sex: males have lower HR after puberty Exercise: HR increases with activity Fever: HR increases with fever Medications: can either increase or decrease the pulse rate Hypovolemia/dehydration: HR increases Stress: HR increases Position: HR increases with standing Pathology: Heart conditions and those that impair oxygenation Q: Pulse Assessment: If pulse is irregular or this is your first time assessing, count for 1 full minutes and - Answer: Access Apical pulse for 1 full minute. This is the true pulse in the body. Q: Pulse Sites Answer: temporal, carotid, apical, brachial, radial, ulnar, femoral, popliteal, posterior tibial, dorsalis pedis

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Examl 2:l NSGl 3100l /l NSGl 3100l (Latestl
2025/l 2026l Update)l Fundamentall
Conceptsl &l Skillsl forl Nursingl Practicel Il
Guide|l Questionsl &l Answers|l Gradel A|l
100%l Correctl (Verifiedl Solutions)-l Galen
Q:l Normall Temperaturel ratel forl adultsl agesl 18-65

Answer:
97.6l -l 99.5




Q:l Al personl whol maintainsl al normall bodyl temperaturel is:

Answer:
Afebrile




Q:l Factorsl Affectingl Temperature

Answer:
Age,l Hormone,l Exercise,l Stress,l circadianl Rhythms,l Environmentl andl Smoking.




Q:l Temperaturel Regulation

Answer:

,Whenl thel bodyl becomesl tool coldl itl isl calledl Hypothermia:l Shiveringl increasesl heatl
production,l sweatingl isl inhibitedl tol decreasel heatl loss,l Vasoconstrictionl decreasesl heatl
loss.




Q:l Whatl isl Hyperthermia?

Answer:
Elevatedl bodyl temperature




Q:l Nursingl Interventionsl forl Hyperthermia

Answer:
1stl assessl andl determinel cause
Removel excessl blanketsl
Adequatel nutritionl andl fluidsl tol meetl increasel metabolicl demand
Reducel physicall activityl tol limitl heatl productionl
Administerl antipyretics
Providel orall hygienel tol keepl mucousl membranesl moist.
Providel cooll spongel baths,l coolingl blankets,l orl packs.




Q:l Nursingl Interventionsl forl Hypothermia

Answer:
1stl assessl andl determinel cause
Warml environmentl
Warml blanketsl
Keepl limbsl closel tol body
Coverl headl andl feetl
Warml orall orl IVl fluids
Warmingl pads/devices

,Q:l Temperaturel Routes

Answer:
Orall (mostlyl usedl atl thel hospitals)
Rectal
Axillary
Tympanicl
Temporal




Q:l Youl havel delegatedl vitall signsl tol assistivel personnel.l Thel assistantl informsl youl
thatl thel patientl hasl justl finishedl al bowll ofl hotl soup.l Thel nurse'sl mostl appropriatel
advicel wouldl bel tol
A.l Takel al rectall temperature.
B.l Takel thel orall temperaturel asl planned.
C.l Advisel thel patientl tol drinkl al glassl ofl coldl water.
D.l Waitl 30l minutesl andl takel anl orall temperature


Answer:
D.l Waitl 30l minutesl andl takel anl orall temperature




Q:l Al nursel isl caringl forl al patientl whol needsl theirl temperaturel taken.l Whichl ofl thel
followingl isl appropriatel forl thel nursel tol dol first?


Answer:
Askl thel patientl ifl theyl hadl anythingl tol eatl orl drink,l smoked,l orl exercisedl recently.




Q:l Al nursel obtainsl anl axillaryl temperaturel ofl 97.0l onl herl 80yearl oldl patient.l Whichl
ofl thel followingl actionsl isl mostl appropriatel forl herl tol takel currently?


Answer:
Checkl documentationl tol seel whatl thel patient'sl baselinel temperaturel isl normally.

, Q:l Pulse

Answer:
Normall Pulsel isl 60-100l bpm




Q:l Factorsl Affectingl Pulse

Answer:
Age:l HRl decreasesl withl age
Sex:l malesl havel lowerl HRl afterl pubertyl
Exercise:l HRl increasesl withl activityl
Fever:l HRl increasesl withl feverl
Medications:l canl eitherl increasel orl decreasel thel pulsel rate
Hypovolemia/dehydration:l HRl increasesl
Stress:l HRl increasesl
Position:l HRl increasesl withl standingl
Pathology:l Heartl conditionsl andl thosel thatl impairl oxygenation




Q:l Pulsel Assessment:l Ifl pulsel isl irregularl orl thisl isl yourl firstl timel assessing,l countl
forl 1l fulll minutesl andl -


Answer:
Accessl Apicall pulsel forl 1l fulll minute.l Thisl isl thel truel pulsel inl thel body.




Q:l Pulsel Sites

Answer:

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