2025 NURS 2092 HEALTH ASSESSMENT EXAM 2
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS 2025/2026 UPDATE A+
1. A palpable vibration increased with lobar pneumonia is also known as? CORRECT--
c. Fremitus
2. Your client is exhibiting rapid shallow breathing, with a respiratory rate >
24
respirations per minute. Which of the following conditions are they experiencing? CORRECT--
b. Tachypnea
3. Which of the following terms is used to describe a decreased level of oxygen (O2) in the
blood? CORRECT--
c. Hypoxemia
4. Upon receiving the client’s lab results, the nurse notes the client has an
increased level
of carbon dioxide in the blood. Which of the following conditions would the client be?
CORRECT--
b. Hypercapnia
5. The nurse is auscultating a client’s lungs and hears discontinuous,
high-pitched, short,
popping sounds heard during inspiration, and not cleared by coughing. These are
described as? CORRECT--
c. Crackles
6. The nurse is assessing a client’s lungs by using the percussion technique. Which
sound
would the nurse expect to hear over healthy lung tissue? CORRECT--
a. Resonance
7. A clinical manifestation common in an individual with chronic obstructive
pulmonary
disease (COPD) is
b. Pursed lip breathing
8. Which of the following are functions of the respiratory system? CORRECT--
(Select all that apply)
a. Supplying oxygen to the body for energy production b. Removing
carbon dioxide as a waste product
d. Maintaining acid-base balance e.
Maintenance of heat exchange
,9. Stridor is a high pitched, inspiratory crowing sound commonly associated with
a. Upper airway obstruction
,10. Which of the following correctly expresses the relationship to the lobes of the lungs
and
their anatomic position? CORRECT--
c. Lower lobes-posterior chest
11. The function of the trachea and bronchi is to
a. Transport gases between the environment and the lung parenchyma
12. Which of the following chest configurations is an exaggerated posterior curvature
of the
thoracic spine that is associated with aging and physical fitness? CORRECT--
c. Kyphosis
13. The nurse is observing the auscultation technique of another nurse. The correct
method to use when progressing from one auscultatory site on the thorax to another
is comparison.
a. Side-to-side
14. The nurse is listening to the breath sounds of a client with severe asthma. Air
passing
through narrowed bronchioles would produce which of these adventitious sounds? CORRECT-
-
a. Wheezes
15. A client has been admitted to the emergency department with a possible medical
diagnosis of pulmonary embolism. The nurse expects to see which assessment findings
related to this condition? CORRECT--
c. Chest pain that is worse on deep inspiration and dyspnea
Week 6 Review Questions? CORRECT--
1. Freshly oxygenated blood enters the heart through the , and is
pumped out to the body
through the .
b. Left atrium; aorta
2. When listening to heart sounds, the nurse knows that the valve closures that can be
heard
best at the base of the heart are? CORRECT--
c. Aortic and pulmonic
3. The nurse is asking the client for subjective data before performing a
cardiac and great
vessel assessment. Which of the following should the nurse ask? CORRECT--
Select all that apply
a. Do you ever have any dyspnea?
CORRECT-- b. Have you noticed any
edema? CORRECT-- e. Have you had any
, chest pain? CORRECT--
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS 2025/2026 UPDATE A+
1. A palpable vibration increased with lobar pneumonia is also known as? CORRECT--
c. Fremitus
2. Your client is exhibiting rapid shallow breathing, with a respiratory rate >
24
respirations per minute. Which of the following conditions are they experiencing? CORRECT--
b. Tachypnea
3. Which of the following terms is used to describe a decreased level of oxygen (O2) in the
blood? CORRECT--
c. Hypoxemia
4. Upon receiving the client’s lab results, the nurse notes the client has an
increased level
of carbon dioxide in the blood. Which of the following conditions would the client be?
CORRECT--
b. Hypercapnia
5. The nurse is auscultating a client’s lungs and hears discontinuous,
high-pitched, short,
popping sounds heard during inspiration, and not cleared by coughing. These are
described as? CORRECT--
c. Crackles
6. The nurse is assessing a client’s lungs by using the percussion technique. Which
sound
would the nurse expect to hear over healthy lung tissue? CORRECT--
a. Resonance
7. A clinical manifestation common in an individual with chronic obstructive
pulmonary
disease (COPD) is
b. Pursed lip breathing
8. Which of the following are functions of the respiratory system? CORRECT--
(Select all that apply)
a. Supplying oxygen to the body for energy production b. Removing
carbon dioxide as a waste product
d. Maintaining acid-base balance e.
Maintenance of heat exchange
,9. Stridor is a high pitched, inspiratory crowing sound commonly associated with
a. Upper airway obstruction
,10. Which of the following correctly expresses the relationship to the lobes of the lungs
and
their anatomic position? CORRECT--
c. Lower lobes-posterior chest
11. The function of the trachea and bronchi is to
a. Transport gases between the environment and the lung parenchyma
12. Which of the following chest configurations is an exaggerated posterior curvature
of the
thoracic spine that is associated with aging and physical fitness? CORRECT--
c. Kyphosis
13. The nurse is observing the auscultation technique of another nurse. The correct
method to use when progressing from one auscultatory site on the thorax to another
is comparison.
a. Side-to-side
14. The nurse is listening to the breath sounds of a client with severe asthma. Air
passing
through narrowed bronchioles would produce which of these adventitious sounds? CORRECT-
-
a. Wheezes
15. A client has been admitted to the emergency department with a possible medical
diagnosis of pulmonary embolism. The nurse expects to see which assessment findings
related to this condition? CORRECT--
c. Chest pain that is worse on deep inspiration and dyspnea
Week 6 Review Questions? CORRECT--
1. Freshly oxygenated blood enters the heart through the , and is
pumped out to the body
through the .
b. Left atrium; aorta
2. When listening to heart sounds, the nurse knows that the valve closures that can be
heard
best at the base of the heart are? CORRECT--
c. Aortic and pulmonic
3. The nurse is asking the client for subjective data before performing a
cardiac and great
vessel assessment. Which of the following should the nurse ask? CORRECT--
Select all that apply
a. Do you ever have any dyspnea?
CORRECT-- b. Have you noticed any
edema? CORRECT-- e. Have you had any
, chest pain? CORRECT--
