NURS 108 EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Capillary Refill - ✔✔is the rate at which blood refills empty capillaries. It can be
measured by holding a hand higher than heart-level (prevents venous reflux), pressing
a fingernail until it turns white, and taking note of the time needed for color to return
once the nail is released
✔✔Cardiac Arrest - ✔✔Sudden stopping of heart action
✔✔Carotid Pulse - ✔✔felt along the long carotid artery on either side of the neck
✔✔Clinical Thermometers - ✔✔may be used to record temperatures
✔✔Constrict - ✔✔To get smaller
✔✔Cyanosis - ✔✔A dusky, bluish discoloration of the skin, lips, and/or nail beds as a
result of decreased oxygen and increased carbon dioxide in the bloodstream.
✔✔Diastolic Blood Pressure - ✔✔The pressure remaining in the arteries during
ventricular relaxation
✔✔Dilate - ✔✔To get larger
✔✔Dyspnea - ✔✔Difficult or labored breathing
✔✔Electronic Thermometers - ✔✔This type of thermometer registers the temperature
on a viewer in a few seconds.
✔✔Fever - ✔✔Elevated body temperature, usually above 101 degrees F, rectally
✔✔Height - ✔✔Is the measurement of the length of the human body, from the bottom of
the feet to the top of the head, when standing erect.
✔✔Homeostasis - ✔✔Is the ideal health state in the human body.
✔✔Hypertension - ✔✔High blood pressure
✔✔Hyperthermia - ✔✔Occurs when the body temperature exceeds 104 degrees,
measured rectally.
✔✔Hypotension - ✔✔low blood pressure
✔✔Hypothermia - ✔✔A low body temperature, below 95 degrees measured rectally
, ✔✔Oral temperatures - ✔✔Are taken in the mouth. This is usually the most common,
convenient, and comfortable method of obtaining a temperature
✔✔Palpation - ✔✔Technique used to feel the texture, size, consistency, and location of
parts of the body with the hands
✔✔Percussion - ✔✔Technique of tapping with the fingertips to evaluate size, borders,
and consistency of internal structures of the body
✔✔Pulse - ✔✔Pressure of the blood felt against the wall of an artery as the heart
contracts or beats
✔✔Pulse deficit - ✔✔The difference between the rate of an apical pulse and the rate of
a radial pulse
✔✔Pulse pressure - ✔✔The difference between systolic and diastolic blood pressure
✔✔Pupil - ✔✔The black center of the eye
✔✔Radial Pulse - ✔✔The pulse felt at the wrist
✔✔Rate - ✔✔Number per minute, as with pulse and respiration counts
✔✔Reactivity - ✔✔In the pupil of the eyes, reacting to light by changing size
✔✔Rectal temperatures - ✔✔Are taken in the rectum and is the most accurate of all
methods
✔✔Respiration - ✔✔the process of taking in oxygen (02) and expelling carbon dioxide
(CO2) from the lungs and respiratory tract
✔✔Rhythm - ✔✔Referring to regularity; regular or irregular
✔✔Sign - ✔✔An indication of a patient's condition that is objective, or can be observed
by another person; an indication that can be seen, heard, smelled or felt by the medical
practitioner
✔✔Sphygmomanometer - ✔✔instrument calibrated for measuring blood pressure in
millimeters of mercury (mm Hg)
✔✔Stethoscope - ✔✔Instrument used for listening to internal body sounds
GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Capillary Refill - ✔✔is the rate at which blood refills empty capillaries. It can be
measured by holding a hand higher than heart-level (prevents venous reflux), pressing
a fingernail until it turns white, and taking note of the time needed for color to return
once the nail is released
✔✔Cardiac Arrest - ✔✔Sudden stopping of heart action
✔✔Carotid Pulse - ✔✔felt along the long carotid artery on either side of the neck
✔✔Clinical Thermometers - ✔✔may be used to record temperatures
✔✔Constrict - ✔✔To get smaller
✔✔Cyanosis - ✔✔A dusky, bluish discoloration of the skin, lips, and/or nail beds as a
result of decreased oxygen and increased carbon dioxide in the bloodstream.
✔✔Diastolic Blood Pressure - ✔✔The pressure remaining in the arteries during
ventricular relaxation
✔✔Dilate - ✔✔To get larger
✔✔Dyspnea - ✔✔Difficult or labored breathing
✔✔Electronic Thermometers - ✔✔This type of thermometer registers the temperature
on a viewer in a few seconds.
✔✔Fever - ✔✔Elevated body temperature, usually above 101 degrees F, rectally
✔✔Height - ✔✔Is the measurement of the length of the human body, from the bottom of
the feet to the top of the head, when standing erect.
✔✔Homeostasis - ✔✔Is the ideal health state in the human body.
✔✔Hypertension - ✔✔High blood pressure
✔✔Hyperthermia - ✔✔Occurs when the body temperature exceeds 104 degrees,
measured rectally.
✔✔Hypotension - ✔✔low blood pressure
✔✔Hypothermia - ✔✔A low body temperature, below 95 degrees measured rectally
, ✔✔Oral temperatures - ✔✔Are taken in the mouth. This is usually the most common,
convenient, and comfortable method of obtaining a temperature
✔✔Palpation - ✔✔Technique used to feel the texture, size, consistency, and location of
parts of the body with the hands
✔✔Percussion - ✔✔Technique of tapping with the fingertips to evaluate size, borders,
and consistency of internal structures of the body
✔✔Pulse - ✔✔Pressure of the blood felt against the wall of an artery as the heart
contracts or beats
✔✔Pulse deficit - ✔✔The difference between the rate of an apical pulse and the rate of
a radial pulse
✔✔Pulse pressure - ✔✔The difference between systolic and diastolic blood pressure
✔✔Pupil - ✔✔The black center of the eye
✔✔Radial Pulse - ✔✔The pulse felt at the wrist
✔✔Rate - ✔✔Number per minute, as with pulse and respiration counts
✔✔Reactivity - ✔✔In the pupil of the eyes, reacting to light by changing size
✔✔Rectal temperatures - ✔✔Are taken in the rectum and is the most accurate of all
methods
✔✔Respiration - ✔✔the process of taking in oxygen (02) and expelling carbon dioxide
(CO2) from the lungs and respiratory tract
✔✔Rhythm - ✔✔Referring to regularity; regular or irregular
✔✔Sign - ✔✔An indication of a patient's condition that is objective, or can be observed
by another person; an indication that can be seen, heard, smelled or felt by the medical
practitioner
✔✔Sphygmomanometer - ✔✔instrument calibrated for measuring blood pressure in
millimeters of mercury (mm Hg)
✔✔Stethoscope - ✔✔Instrument used for listening to internal body sounds
