NURS - 321 HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUIZ 3 & 4 | QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | 2026
UPDATE | WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION
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 - (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 - (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 - (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 - (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
, NURS - 321 HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUIZ 3 & 4 | QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | 2026
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c. A later pulmonic sound
d. A later tricuspid sound
e. An earlier tricuspid sound - (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 - (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 - (ANSWER)d. Afterload
When, in the cardiac cycle, does blood pressure peak?
a. Preload
b. Systole
c. Diastole
d. Afterload - (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
UPDATE | WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION
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 - (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 - (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 - (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 - (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
, NURS - 321 HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUIZ 3 & 4 | QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | 2026
UPDATE | WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION
c. A later pulmonic sound
d. A later tricuspid sound
e. An earlier tricuspid sound - (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 - (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 - (ANSWER)d. Afterload
When, in the cardiac cycle, does blood pressure peak?
a. Preload
b. Systole
c. Diastole
d. Afterload - (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
