NUR 3065 MODULE 6-8 QUIZZES QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
NUR 3065 MODULE 6-8 STUDY GUIDE & PRACTICE TEST
2026/2027
Ventricle - ANS ✔✔Muscular pumping chamber
Myocardium - ANS ✔✔Muscular wall of the heart
Atrium - ANS ✔✔Reservoir for holding blood
Pericardium - ANS ✔✔Tough, fibrous, double-walled sac that surrounds and protects the heart
S1 - ANS ✔✔Closure of atrioventricular valves (mitral and tricuspid)
S2 - ANS ✔✔closure of semilunar laves (aortic and pulmonic)
Physiologic splitting - ANS ✔✔Aortic valve closing just before the pulmonic valve
Paradoxical splitting - ANS ✔✔Closure of the aortic valve is abnormally delayed so the pulmonic valve
closure is heard first.
The examiner is palpating the apical impulse. The normal size of this impulse is
a. less than 1cm
b. about 2 to 2.5 cm
c. 3 cm
d. varies depending on the size of the person - ANS ✔✔about 2 to 2.5 cm
The examiner wishes to listen in the pulmonic valve area. To do this, the stethoscope would be placed at
the:
a. fourth right intercostal space
b. second left intercostal space
c. left lower sternal border
d. fifth intercostal space, left midclavicular line - ANS ✔✔second left intercostal space
When auscultating the heart, your first step is to:
a. identify S1 and S2
b. listen for S3 and S4
c. listen for murmurs
d. identify all four sounds on the first round - ANS ✔✔identify S1 and S2
When you have your patient squat, the venous return to the right side of the heart increases and the
peripheral vascular resistance increases.
, The blood pressure, stroke volume, and the volume of blood in the left ventricle all rise.
This may help you to find a heart murmur or extra sound.
a. True
b. False - ANS ✔✔True
You are auscultating at the 5th intercostal space at the midclavicular line. You are most likely to hear
which valve?
a. Aortic
b. Pulmonic
c. Tricuspid
d. Mitral - ANS ✔✔Mitral
Concerning symptoms of the peripheral vascular system would include: (CHECK ALL THAT ARE CORRECT)
a. Edema of the calves, leg, or feet
b. Pain
c. Numbness of the legs
d. Hair loss on the lower extremities - ANS ✔✔-Edema of the calves, leg, or feet
-Pain
-Numbness of the legs
-Hair loss on the lower extremities
Match the following grading of pulses:
3+ - ANS ✔✔bounding
Match the following grading of pulses:
2+ - ANS ✔✔brisk, expected (normal)
Match the following grading of pulses:
1+ - ANS ✔✔diminished, weaker than expected
Match the following grading of pulses:
0 - ANS ✔✔absent, unable to palpate
A drop of blood goes into the right atrium. Follow it throughout the body back to the right atrium. *hint:
right atrium should be your FINAL answer, not your first, as that is where it will end up)
Place the parts of the circulatory system in the correct order in which the blood will travel. - ANS ✔✔1.
tricuspid valve
2. right ventricle
3. pulmonic valve
4. pulmonic artery
5. lungs
6. pulmonic vein
7. left atrium
8. mitral valve
9. left ventricle
NUR 3065 MODULE 6-8 STUDY GUIDE & PRACTICE TEST
2026/2027
Ventricle - ANS ✔✔Muscular pumping chamber
Myocardium - ANS ✔✔Muscular wall of the heart
Atrium - ANS ✔✔Reservoir for holding blood
Pericardium - ANS ✔✔Tough, fibrous, double-walled sac that surrounds and protects the heart
S1 - ANS ✔✔Closure of atrioventricular valves (mitral and tricuspid)
S2 - ANS ✔✔closure of semilunar laves (aortic and pulmonic)
Physiologic splitting - ANS ✔✔Aortic valve closing just before the pulmonic valve
Paradoxical splitting - ANS ✔✔Closure of the aortic valve is abnormally delayed so the pulmonic valve
closure is heard first.
The examiner is palpating the apical impulse. The normal size of this impulse is
a. less than 1cm
b. about 2 to 2.5 cm
c. 3 cm
d. varies depending on the size of the person - ANS ✔✔about 2 to 2.5 cm
The examiner wishes to listen in the pulmonic valve area. To do this, the stethoscope would be placed at
the:
a. fourth right intercostal space
b. second left intercostal space
c. left lower sternal border
d. fifth intercostal space, left midclavicular line - ANS ✔✔second left intercostal space
When auscultating the heart, your first step is to:
a. identify S1 and S2
b. listen for S3 and S4
c. listen for murmurs
d. identify all four sounds on the first round - ANS ✔✔identify S1 and S2
When you have your patient squat, the venous return to the right side of the heart increases and the
peripheral vascular resistance increases.
, The blood pressure, stroke volume, and the volume of blood in the left ventricle all rise.
This may help you to find a heart murmur or extra sound.
a. True
b. False - ANS ✔✔True
You are auscultating at the 5th intercostal space at the midclavicular line. You are most likely to hear
which valve?
a. Aortic
b. Pulmonic
c. Tricuspid
d. Mitral - ANS ✔✔Mitral
Concerning symptoms of the peripheral vascular system would include: (CHECK ALL THAT ARE CORRECT)
a. Edema of the calves, leg, or feet
b. Pain
c. Numbness of the legs
d. Hair loss on the lower extremities - ANS ✔✔-Edema of the calves, leg, or feet
-Pain
-Numbness of the legs
-Hair loss on the lower extremities
Match the following grading of pulses:
3+ - ANS ✔✔bounding
Match the following grading of pulses:
2+ - ANS ✔✔brisk, expected (normal)
Match the following grading of pulses:
1+ - ANS ✔✔diminished, weaker than expected
Match the following grading of pulses:
0 - ANS ✔✔absent, unable to palpate
A drop of blood goes into the right atrium. Follow it throughout the body back to the right atrium. *hint:
right atrium should be your FINAL answer, not your first, as that is where it will end up)
Place the parts of the circulatory system in the correct order in which the blood will travel. - ANS ✔✔1.
tricuspid valve
2. right ventricle
3. pulmonic valve
4. pulmonic artery
5. lungs
6. pulmonic vein
7. left atrium
8. mitral valve
9. left ventricle
