NUR 122 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 100% CORRECT
When assessing temperature for the older adult, the nurse should remember that:
Select one:
a. It is not a reliable indicator of serious infection
b. The core temperature of older adults is higher than adults
c. Cerumen impaction does not impede obtaining a temperature with a tympanic
thermometer
d. Older adults do not have a sense of heat or cold.
a. It is not a reliable indicator of serious infection
Vital signs provide essential information about the state of a person's:
Select one:
a. Overall well-being
b. Major organs
c. Vascular status
d. Respiratory status
b. Major organs
2. Respiratory rate is regulated by all of the following except:
Select one:
a. Diaphragm movement
,b. Carotid pressure
c. Chemoreceptors
d. Medulla oblongata
b. Carotid pressure
3. A client has returned from having an anaesthetic in a supine position. The RN is
monitoring his respiratory rate because the nurse is aware that:
Select one:
a. Narcotics increase the respiratory rate
b. Anaesthetics will block the airway
c. Position will suppress respirations
d. Narcotics can cause wheezing
c. Position will suppress respirations
4. A client who has been involved in a motor vehicle crash arrives at the trauma unit in
respiratory distress and is unconscious. Understanding that chemoreceptors respond
to changes in the concentrations of oxygen, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen, which of the
following would explain this client's depressed respiratory rate?
Choose one:
a. Environmental temperature has increased
b. Exercise
c. Stress
d. Intracranial pressure has increased
d. Increased intracranial pressure
5. Which one of the following determinants of blood pressure would explain a client's
blood pressure reading of 120/100?
,Select one:
a. Pumping action of the heart
b. Blood viscosity
c. Blood volume
d. Peripheral vascular resistance
d. Peripheral vascular resistance
An individual's blood pressure reading is the indirect measurement of:
Select one:
a. The output from the left ventricle on contraction
b. The amount of peripheral resistance
c. The tension exerted by the blood against arterial walls
d. The right ventricle cardiac output
c. The tension exerted by the blood against arterial walls
7. When assessing a client's peripheral pulse rate, the nurse is also assessing which of
the following?
Select one:
a. Sound
b. Rhythm
c. Stress
d. Depth
b. Rhythm
, 8. The RN determines that an apical-radial pulse is to be used on a client with
cardiovascular disorders. For the following rationales, select the one that the RN used
to make this decision.
Rates
Select one:
a. A forceful radial pulse is much too difficult to count
b. The thrust of blood from the heart is too feeble for the wave to be felt at the peripheral
pulse site
c. The pulse was bounding and easily obliterated
d. Both arteriole and venous sounds were heard simultaneously
b. The thrust of blood from the heart is too feeble for the wave to be felt at the peripheral
pulse site
orrrect Answer
9. Which of the following sites is recommended for routine clinical use when obtaining a
temperature reading from children and infants?
Select one:
a. Rectal
b. Tympanic membrane
c. Oral
d. Axilla
d. Axilla
10. Which of the following is the most correct summary of the principles of wound bed
preparation using the T.I.M.E. acronym:
ANSWERS 100% CORRECT
When assessing temperature for the older adult, the nurse should remember that:
Select one:
a. It is not a reliable indicator of serious infection
b. The core temperature of older adults is higher than adults
c. Cerumen impaction does not impede obtaining a temperature with a tympanic
thermometer
d. Older adults do not have a sense of heat or cold.
a. It is not a reliable indicator of serious infection
Vital signs provide essential information about the state of a person's:
Select one:
a. Overall well-being
b. Major organs
c. Vascular status
d. Respiratory status
b. Major organs
2. Respiratory rate is regulated by all of the following except:
Select one:
a. Diaphragm movement
,b. Carotid pressure
c. Chemoreceptors
d. Medulla oblongata
b. Carotid pressure
3. A client has returned from having an anaesthetic in a supine position. The RN is
monitoring his respiratory rate because the nurse is aware that:
Select one:
a. Narcotics increase the respiratory rate
b. Anaesthetics will block the airway
c. Position will suppress respirations
d. Narcotics can cause wheezing
c. Position will suppress respirations
4. A client who has been involved in a motor vehicle crash arrives at the trauma unit in
respiratory distress and is unconscious. Understanding that chemoreceptors respond
to changes in the concentrations of oxygen, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen, which of the
following would explain this client's depressed respiratory rate?
Choose one:
a. Environmental temperature has increased
b. Exercise
c. Stress
d. Intracranial pressure has increased
d. Increased intracranial pressure
5. Which one of the following determinants of blood pressure would explain a client's
blood pressure reading of 120/100?
,Select one:
a. Pumping action of the heart
b. Blood viscosity
c. Blood volume
d. Peripheral vascular resistance
d. Peripheral vascular resistance
An individual's blood pressure reading is the indirect measurement of:
Select one:
a. The output from the left ventricle on contraction
b. The amount of peripheral resistance
c. The tension exerted by the blood against arterial walls
d. The right ventricle cardiac output
c. The tension exerted by the blood against arterial walls
7. When assessing a client's peripheral pulse rate, the nurse is also assessing which of
the following?
Select one:
a. Sound
b. Rhythm
c. Stress
d. Depth
b. Rhythm
, 8. The RN determines that an apical-radial pulse is to be used on a client with
cardiovascular disorders. For the following rationales, select the one that the RN used
to make this decision.
Rates
Select one:
a. A forceful radial pulse is much too difficult to count
b. The thrust of blood from the heart is too feeble for the wave to be felt at the peripheral
pulse site
c. The pulse was bounding and easily obliterated
d. Both arteriole and venous sounds were heard simultaneously
b. The thrust of blood from the heart is too feeble for the wave to be felt at the peripheral
pulse site
orrrect Answer
9. Which of the following sites is recommended for routine clinical use when obtaining a
temperature reading from children and infants?
Select one:
a. Rectal
b. Tympanic membrane
c. Oral
d. Axilla
d. Axilla
10. Which of the following is the most correct summary of the principles of wound bed
preparation using the T.I.M.E. acronym:
