NURS 3320 LATEST EXAMS SCRIPT QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔The nurse is performing a cardiovascular assessment. To evaluate the client for
pulmonary edema the nurse would assess the client for which manifestation? -
✔✔Shortness of breath or dyspnea because alveoli filled with fluid, so can expand for
gas exchange.
DONT GET CONFUSED AND SAY LOWER EXTREMITES EDEMA, That is more seen
in RHF blood can back up in your legs, ankles and feet, causing edema because the
pumping is not good
✔✔When palpating the carotid pulses during a cardiovascular assessment, the nurse
would expect to cause which of the following if the pulses were palpated
simultaneously? - ✔✔Bradycardia, and Cerebral ISCHEMIA, bro, you are blocking
oxygenated blood to the brain
✔✔What method should the nurse implement when assessing for a pulse deficit
between the apical and carotid pulses? - ✔✔Auscultate apical pulse (Mitral area) while
palpating carotid
✔✔With arterial insufficiency what are s&s? - ✔✔cool/Pale skin on leg, pain improved
with rest, pain aggravated with activity
, AI=Intermittent claudication
✔✔The Allen Test is used for what? - ✔✔To evaluate patency of radial/ulnar arteries.
You squeeze both with patient hand clinched and seeing if blood rushes to hand and
fingers
✔✔Hyperresonance is produced over the lung of a client with - ✔✔COPD or
Emphesema
✔✔T/F
Dullness over the liver (a dense organ) is normal. - ✔✔True
✔✔What sound upon percussion would you hear over normal lung tissue? -
✔✔Resonance
✔✔Protuberant stomach would be noticible in which type of patient? - ✔✔Overweight,
or Liver dz, cirrohosis----> ASCITES
✔✔Concave stomach is also known as ________. Seen in who? - ✔✔Scaphoid, in
athletes, (stomach goes in)
✔✔T/F
A 60 yr old women has noticible pendulous breast tissue with lack of elasticity, this is
typically normal. - ✔✔Yes, TRUE pendulous (saggy) and lack of elasticity and Fatty
tissue is normal, SIT AND LEAN FORWARD
✔✔PND (paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea) - ✔✔attacks of severe SOB and coughing
which occur at night and usually wakens a person from sleep. SEVERE DYSPNEA
✔✔sleep apnea - ✔✔a disorder in which the person stops breathing for brief periods
while asleep, wakes them up, can cause fatigue during day
✔✔S/S of heart failure - ✔✔Weight gain, ankle edema, SOB, ORTHOPNEA
✔✔How big should lymph nodes be and are they palpable or non palpable? - ✔✔1-2
cm, should NOT be palpable. Unless sick because there is Infection
✔✔PAD is associated with what? - ✔✔Diabetes, and age. Amputation as seen in
compartment syndrome (think fractures too with CS) can occur if there is prolonged
arterial insufficiency.
✔✔What are risk factors of PAD? - ✔✔artherclerosis because the narrowing of the
blood vessels, renal artery dz, obesity
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔The nurse is performing a cardiovascular assessment. To evaluate the client for
pulmonary edema the nurse would assess the client for which manifestation? -
✔✔Shortness of breath or dyspnea because alveoli filled with fluid, so can expand for
gas exchange.
DONT GET CONFUSED AND SAY LOWER EXTREMITES EDEMA, That is more seen
in RHF blood can back up in your legs, ankles and feet, causing edema because the
pumping is not good
✔✔When palpating the carotid pulses during a cardiovascular assessment, the nurse
would expect to cause which of the following if the pulses were palpated
simultaneously? - ✔✔Bradycardia, and Cerebral ISCHEMIA, bro, you are blocking
oxygenated blood to the brain
✔✔What method should the nurse implement when assessing for a pulse deficit
between the apical and carotid pulses? - ✔✔Auscultate apical pulse (Mitral area) while
palpating carotid
✔✔With arterial insufficiency what are s&s? - ✔✔cool/Pale skin on leg, pain improved
with rest, pain aggravated with activity
, AI=Intermittent claudication
✔✔The Allen Test is used for what? - ✔✔To evaluate patency of radial/ulnar arteries.
You squeeze both with patient hand clinched and seeing if blood rushes to hand and
fingers
✔✔Hyperresonance is produced over the lung of a client with - ✔✔COPD or
Emphesema
✔✔T/F
Dullness over the liver (a dense organ) is normal. - ✔✔True
✔✔What sound upon percussion would you hear over normal lung tissue? -
✔✔Resonance
✔✔Protuberant stomach would be noticible in which type of patient? - ✔✔Overweight,
or Liver dz, cirrohosis----> ASCITES
✔✔Concave stomach is also known as ________. Seen in who? - ✔✔Scaphoid, in
athletes, (stomach goes in)
✔✔T/F
A 60 yr old women has noticible pendulous breast tissue with lack of elasticity, this is
typically normal. - ✔✔Yes, TRUE pendulous (saggy) and lack of elasticity and Fatty
tissue is normal, SIT AND LEAN FORWARD
✔✔PND (paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea) - ✔✔attacks of severe SOB and coughing
which occur at night and usually wakens a person from sleep. SEVERE DYSPNEA
✔✔sleep apnea - ✔✔a disorder in which the person stops breathing for brief periods
while asleep, wakes them up, can cause fatigue during day
✔✔S/S of heart failure - ✔✔Weight gain, ankle edema, SOB, ORTHOPNEA
✔✔How big should lymph nodes be and are they palpable or non palpable? - ✔✔1-2
cm, should NOT be palpable. Unless sick because there is Infection
✔✔PAD is associated with what? - ✔✔Diabetes, and age. Amputation as seen in
compartment syndrome (think fractures too with CS) can occur if there is prolonged
arterial insufficiency.
✔✔What are risk factors of PAD? - ✔✔artherclerosis because the narrowing of the
blood vessels, renal artery dz, obesity
