Health Assessment Review Questions, Week 6, Exam 2 Questions and Answers with Solutions UPDATED!!!.pdf

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Health Assessment Review Questions, Week 6, Exam 2 Questions
and Answers with Solutions UPDATED!!!



The direction of blood flow through the heart is best described
by which of these?


A) Vena cava right atrium right ventricle lungs pulmonary artery
left atrium left ventricle
B) Right atrium right ventricle pulmonary artery lungs
pulmonary vein left atrium left ventricle
C) Aorta right atrium right ventricle lungs pulmonary vein left
atrium left ventricle vena cava
D) Right atrium right ventricle pulmonary vein lungs pulmonary
artery left atrium left ventricle - ANSWER B. Right Atrium, Right
ventricle pulmonary, artery, lungs, pulmonary vein, left atrium,
left ventricle


When listening to heart sounds, the nurse knows that the valve
closures that can be heard best at the base of the heart are:


A) mitral and tricuspid.
B) tricuspid and aortic.

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C) aortic and pulmonic.
D) mitral and pulmonic. - ANSWER C. Aortic and pulmonic


Which of these statements describes the closure of the valves
in a normal cardiac cycle?


A) The aortic valve closes slightly before the tricuspid valve.
B) The pulmonic valve closes slightly before the aortic valve.
C) The tricuspid valve closes slightly later than the mitral valve.
D) Both the tricuspid and pulmonic valves close at the same
time. - ANSWER C. The tricuspid valve closes slightly later than
the mitral valve


Tip: - ANSWER S1 is louder than S2 at the apex (Tricuspid and
mitral valve.)
S2 is louder than S1 at the base (Aortic valve and pulmonic
valve.)
Sounds are equal at Erb's point


When you are assessing your patient's heart sounds, you notice
a murmur. You listen with the bell and would describe the