NURS 3632 ACTUAL 2026 TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Vesicular sounds are what? - ✔✔LOW pitched, SOFT sound during expiration
VLS=LISE
✔✔bronchial sounds are best heard? - ✔✔Trachea
✔✔bronchial sounds are? - ✔✔HIGH/HARSH pitched, LONG/LOUD during expiration
BSILE=HH
✔✔incentive spirometer use - ✔✔piston rises with each deep inhalation (NOT
BLOWING)
✔✔Expecterants do what? - ✔✔pulls mucus out
✔✔T/F
Physical Therapy helps break mucus so pt can cough up. - ✔✔True, that is why you
want to promote early ambulation after sx so you prevent pneumonia
✔✔Upper Airways does what? - ✔✔Warms Air before entering our lungs, catches
debris like a filter
✔✔Lower airways does what? - ✔✔gets air to alveoli to get to capillaries
✔✔What are precuations for oxygen administration? - ✔✔-avoid open flames
-Avoid oils
-place no smoking signs in home
✔✔The right lung has how many lobes? - ✔✔3 lobes (superior, middle, inferior)
✔✔The left lung consists of how many lobes? - ✔✔2 lobes, to make room for heart
✔✔Chest compressions are a form of _______ circulation to help if there is no pulse. -
✔✔Artificial Circulation
✔✔Nurses are a type of ___ culture within Healthcare - ✔✔Subculture, Hospital would
be like a Culture
✔✔Being on a mountain can effect breathing because? - ✔✔Pressure is different, not
enough gas diffusion, not enough oxygen going into bloodstream
, ✔✔Hypoventilation is - ✔✔shallow and slow respirations
✔✔What is cultural imposition? - ✔✔everyone should conform to the majority belief
system and ASSIMULATE
✔✔T/F
Family members are the best translators if patient does not speak the language. -
✔✔False, It is best to use a translator because the translator knows medical jargon
better
✔✔3 components of perception - ✔✔susceptibility, benefits of actions, seriousness of
dz
✔✔Drug Classification
Pharmaceutical - ✔✔MOA, physiologic effect, chemical structure
ex: ace inhibitors, betablockers
✔✔Drug classification
Therapeutical - ✔✔clinical indication
Ex: ABX, analgesic, antihypertensive
✔✔trough levels - ✔✔drug at lowest point conc, indicates rate of elimination
✔✔standing orders - ✔✔Routine
ex: 1QD
✔✔When are the 3 checks for drugs done? - ✔✔1) when reaching for drug
2) after retrieval of drug and compared w/ EMAR
3)before giving dose to patient
✔✔What is reason for a incident report? - ✔✔Prevention from happening again
✔✔Other than the obvious six, what are some other rights of meds? - ✔✔*rights to
refuse
*right to education
*right documentation
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Vesicular sounds are what? - ✔✔LOW pitched, SOFT sound during expiration
VLS=LISE
✔✔bronchial sounds are best heard? - ✔✔Trachea
✔✔bronchial sounds are? - ✔✔HIGH/HARSH pitched, LONG/LOUD during expiration
BSILE=HH
✔✔incentive spirometer use - ✔✔piston rises with each deep inhalation (NOT
BLOWING)
✔✔Expecterants do what? - ✔✔pulls mucus out
✔✔T/F
Physical Therapy helps break mucus so pt can cough up. - ✔✔True, that is why you
want to promote early ambulation after sx so you prevent pneumonia
✔✔Upper Airways does what? - ✔✔Warms Air before entering our lungs, catches
debris like a filter
✔✔Lower airways does what? - ✔✔gets air to alveoli to get to capillaries
✔✔What are precuations for oxygen administration? - ✔✔-avoid open flames
-Avoid oils
-place no smoking signs in home
✔✔The right lung has how many lobes? - ✔✔3 lobes (superior, middle, inferior)
✔✔The left lung consists of how many lobes? - ✔✔2 lobes, to make room for heart
✔✔Chest compressions are a form of _______ circulation to help if there is no pulse. -
✔✔Artificial Circulation
✔✔Nurses are a type of ___ culture within Healthcare - ✔✔Subculture, Hospital would
be like a Culture
✔✔Being on a mountain can effect breathing because? - ✔✔Pressure is different, not
enough gas diffusion, not enough oxygen going into bloodstream
, ✔✔Hypoventilation is - ✔✔shallow and slow respirations
✔✔What is cultural imposition? - ✔✔everyone should conform to the majority belief
system and ASSIMULATE
✔✔T/F
Family members are the best translators if patient does not speak the language. -
✔✔False, It is best to use a translator because the translator knows medical jargon
better
✔✔3 components of perception - ✔✔susceptibility, benefits of actions, seriousness of
dz
✔✔Drug Classification
Pharmaceutical - ✔✔MOA, physiologic effect, chemical structure
ex: ace inhibitors, betablockers
✔✔Drug classification
Therapeutical - ✔✔clinical indication
Ex: ABX, analgesic, antihypertensive
✔✔trough levels - ✔✔drug at lowest point conc, indicates rate of elimination
✔✔standing orders - ✔✔Routine
ex: 1QD
✔✔When are the 3 checks for drugs done? - ✔✔1) when reaching for drug
2) after retrieval of drug and compared w/ EMAR
3)before giving dose to patient
✔✔What is reason for a incident report? - ✔✔Prevention from happening again
✔✔Other than the obvious six, what are some other rights of meds? - ✔✔*rights to
refuse
*right to education
*right documentation
