HA Final Exam – Practice Questions and Comprehensive Study Guide
When a patient exhibits extreme swaying when they stand with feet together, arms at the side,
and eyes closed....how would you document this finding?
a) Ataxia
b) Positive Homan's sign
c) Positive Allen's test
d) Positive Romberg's sign - correct answer ✔✔d) Positive Romberg's sign
Costovertebral angle tenderness is indicative of what condition?
a) gallbladder disease
b) kidney inflammation
c) liver enlargement
d) spleen enlargement - correct answer ✔✔b) kidney inflammation
Having the patient bend from the waist while you observe the scapula for symmetry is a good
technique to test for...
a) osteopororis
b) lordosis
c) scoliosis
d) ataxia - correct answer ✔✔c) scoliosis
What function does the vagus nerve serve?
,a) It is the nerve which regulates autonomic control of skin temperature
b) It is the major sympathetic nerve in the body, causing flight or fight
c) It is the major parasympathetic nerve in the body, decreasing heart rate
d) It causes the uvula to deviate to the left when a person says "AH" - correct answer ✔✔c) It is
the major parasympathetic nerve in the body, decreasing heart rate
What is involved in a functional assessment of an elderly client?
a) ask the client's physician for information on the client's ability
b) observe their ability to perform tasks
c) review the medical records for information on the client's ability
d) ask the wife about the client's ability to perform tasks - correct answer ✔✔b) observe their
ability to perform tasks
What is the cause of a women wetting herself when sneezing?
a) urge incontinence
b) stress incontinence
c) kidney stone
d) urinary tract infection - correct answer ✔✔b) stress incontinence
Curd-like, white vaginal discharge with vaginal pruritis is indicative of what?
a) herpes
b) yeast
c) syphillis
, d) gonorrhea - correct answer ✔✔b) yeast
The nurse knows resonance in the left lower lobe when percussing the client's posterior thorax
is due to...
a) normal lung tissue
b) pneumothorax
c) chronic bronchitis
d) shallow breathing - correct answer ✔✔a) normal lung tissue
The following symptoms are indicative of what disease process?
-difficulty breathing
-sharp pain in left chest
-decreases tactile fremitus on left chest
-asymmetrical chest expansion
-tachypnea
a) pneumonia
b) bronchitis
c) asthma
d) pneumothorax - correct answer ✔✔d) pneumothorax
Which of the following clinical findings is suggestive of rheumatoid arthritis?
a) heberden nodes
b) swan-neck deformities
When a patient exhibits extreme swaying when they stand with feet together, arms at the side,
and eyes closed....how would you document this finding?
a) Ataxia
b) Positive Homan's sign
c) Positive Allen's test
d) Positive Romberg's sign - correct answer ✔✔d) Positive Romberg's sign
Costovertebral angle tenderness is indicative of what condition?
a) gallbladder disease
b) kidney inflammation
c) liver enlargement
d) spleen enlargement - correct answer ✔✔b) kidney inflammation
Having the patient bend from the waist while you observe the scapula for symmetry is a good
technique to test for...
a) osteopororis
b) lordosis
c) scoliosis
d) ataxia - correct answer ✔✔c) scoliosis
What function does the vagus nerve serve?
,a) It is the nerve which regulates autonomic control of skin temperature
b) It is the major sympathetic nerve in the body, causing flight or fight
c) It is the major parasympathetic nerve in the body, decreasing heart rate
d) It causes the uvula to deviate to the left when a person says "AH" - correct answer ✔✔c) It is
the major parasympathetic nerve in the body, decreasing heart rate
What is involved in a functional assessment of an elderly client?
a) ask the client's physician for information on the client's ability
b) observe their ability to perform tasks
c) review the medical records for information on the client's ability
d) ask the wife about the client's ability to perform tasks - correct answer ✔✔b) observe their
ability to perform tasks
What is the cause of a women wetting herself when sneezing?
a) urge incontinence
b) stress incontinence
c) kidney stone
d) urinary tract infection - correct answer ✔✔b) stress incontinence
Curd-like, white vaginal discharge with vaginal pruritis is indicative of what?
a) herpes
b) yeast
c) syphillis
, d) gonorrhea - correct answer ✔✔b) yeast
The nurse knows resonance in the left lower lobe when percussing the client's posterior thorax
is due to...
a) normal lung tissue
b) pneumothorax
c) chronic bronchitis
d) shallow breathing - correct answer ✔✔a) normal lung tissue
The following symptoms are indicative of what disease process?
-difficulty breathing
-sharp pain in left chest
-decreases tactile fremitus on left chest
-asymmetrical chest expansion
-tachypnea
a) pneumonia
b) bronchitis
c) asthma
d) pneumothorax - correct answer ✔✔d) pneumothorax
Which of the following clinical findings is suggestive of rheumatoid arthritis?
a) heberden nodes
b) swan-neck deformities
