NURS -321 HEALTH ASSESSMENT NEWEST
EXAM 2025-2026 WITH MULTIPLE CHOICE OF
QUESTIONS 3 & 4 AND SOLVED SOLUTIONS
ALREADY GRADED A+ AND 100% GUARANTEE
PASS (JUST RELEASED!!!!!)
What is located at the right and left 2nd intercostal spaces next
to the sternum?
a. Base of the heart
b. Apex of the heart
c. Pulmonary vein
d. Aortic valve - CORRECT ANSWER-a. Base of the heart
When a patient is obese or has a thick chest wall, what is
difficult to palpate?
a. JVP
b. Apical impulse
c. Grade 4 murmur
d. Sternal angle - CORRECT ANSWER-b. Apical impulse
What is the normal peak pressure of the left ventricle?
a. 90 mm Hg
b. 100 mm Hg
c. 110 mm Hg
,d. 120 mm Hg - CORRECT ANSWER-d. 120 mm Hg
A 78-year-old male Hispanic patient is noted to have a
pathologic change in ventricular compliance. What information
from the cardiac assessment would indicate this?
a. A split S2
b. An S3 gallop
c. A delayed S3
d. A weak S4 - CORRECT ANSWER-b. An S3 gallop
What are the components of S1? (Mark all that apply.)
a. An earlier aortic sound
b. An earlier mitral sound
c. A later pulmonic sound
d. A later tricuspid sound
e. An earlier tricuspid sound - CORRECT ANSWER-b. An
earlier mitral sound
d. A later tricuspid sound
Your patient asks you what the small P wave on her ECG
indicates. What would you answer?
a. Atrial depolarization
b. Ventricular depolarization
c. Atrial Repolarizatioin
d. Ventricular repolarization - CORRECT ANSWER-a. Atrial
depolarizaton
, What term is used to describe the degree of vascular resistance
to ventricular contraction?
a. Contractile overload
b. Volume overload
c. Preload
d. Afterload - CORRECT ANSWER-d. Afterload
When, in the cardiac cycle, does blood pressure peak?
a. Preload
b. Systole
c. Diastole
d. Afterload - CORRECT ANSWER-b. Systole
Over a 24-hour period there is a striking variation in blood
pressure levels. What can cause these variations? (Mark all that
apply.)
a. Time of day
b. Sugar ingestion
c. Size of meals
d. Noise
e. Environmental temperature - CORRECT ANSWER-a. Time
of day
d. Noise
e. Environmental Temperature
What do the oscillations (movement back and forth) in the
internal jugular veins reflect?
EXAM 2025-2026 WITH MULTIPLE CHOICE OF
QUESTIONS 3 & 4 AND SOLVED SOLUTIONS
ALREADY GRADED A+ AND 100% GUARANTEE
PASS (JUST RELEASED!!!!!)
What is located at the right and left 2nd intercostal spaces next
to the sternum?
a. Base of the heart
b. Apex of the heart
c. Pulmonary vein
d. Aortic valve - CORRECT ANSWER-a. Base of the heart
When a patient is obese or has a thick chest wall, what is
difficult to palpate?
a. JVP
b. Apical impulse
c. Grade 4 murmur
d. Sternal angle - CORRECT ANSWER-b. Apical impulse
What is the normal peak pressure of the left ventricle?
a. 90 mm Hg
b. 100 mm Hg
c. 110 mm Hg
,d. 120 mm Hg - CORRECT ANSWER-d. 120 mm Hg
A 78-year-old male Hispanic patient is noted to have a
pathologic change in ventricular compliance. What information
from the cardiac assessment would indicate this?
a. A split S2
b. An S3 gallop
c. A delayed S3
d. A weak S4 - CORRECT ANSWER-b. An S3 gallop
What are the components of S1? (Mark all that apply.)
a. An earlier aortic sound
b. An earlier mitral sound
c. A later pulmonic sound
d. A later tricuspid sound
e. An earlier tricuspid sound - CORRECT ANSWER-b. An
earlier mitral sound
d. A later tricuspid sound
Your patient asks you what the small P wave on her ECG
indicates. What would you answer?
a. Atrial depolarization
b. Ventricular depolarization
c. Atrial Repolarizatioin
d. Ventricular repolarization - CORRECT ANSWER-a. Atrial
depolarizaton
, What term is used to describe the degree of vascular resistance
to ventricular contraction?
a. Contractile overload
b. Volume overload
c. Preload
d. Afterload - CORRECT ANSWER-d. Afterload
When, in the cardiac cycle, does blood pressure peak?
a. Preload
b. Systole
c. Diastole
d. Afterload - CORRECT ANSWER-b. Systole
Over a 24-hour period there is a striking variation in blood
pressure levels. What can cause these variations? (Mark all that
apply.)
a. Time of day
b. Sugar ingestion
c. Size of meals
d. Noise
e. Environmental temperature - CORRECT ANSWER-a. Time
of day
d. Noise
e. Environmental Temperature
What do the oscillations (movement back and forth) in the
internal jugular veins reflect?
