NUR 2092 Health Assessment Exam 2-Questions with Correct
Answers/ Verified
If you are doing a cardiovascular assessment and you are hearing a bruit/swooshing sounds in the
patients carotid artery, what does this mean? - ✔️✔️Narrow vessel (Most likely filled with plaque
buildup)
If you are doing a Snellen eye exam from 20 feet away what are you testing? - ✔️✔️Farsided eye
sight
What are 4 things that the skin does? - ✔️✔️Prevention of penetration, temperature regulation,
absorbs Vitamin D and wound repair (repairs itself)
What cannot the skin do? - ✔️✔️Prevent the loss of fluids
When you are doing a lung assessment you should listen from what direction to what direction? -
✔️✔️Right to left
What is the Jaeger card used for? - ✔️✔️Testing nearsided eye sight
If a mole on a patients skin has abnormal pigmentation and is itchy, at what size does the mole
become suspicious? - ✔️✔️6 mm
What are you listening for when listening to bowel sounds? - ✔️✔️Gurgling
If you do not hear any sounds after 1 minute of listening to bowel sounds, what do you do? -
✔️✔️Listen for 4 more minutes for a total of 5 minutes.
What is a hypoactive bowel sound? - ✔️✔️A distant bowel sound (Likely constipation. Only hearing
gurgles every 1-2 minutes)
What is an indication if a patient has yellow skin? - ✔️✔️Jaundice. A liver problem
, If you are palpating lymph nodes in front of the ear, what lymph nodes are you palpating? -
✔️✔️Preoricular
If you are doing an abdominal assessment and you only heat a few gurgles every 1-2 minutes, what
should you suspect is going on with the patient? - ✔️✔️Constipation
What should you always ask a patient when doing an abdominal assessment? - ✔️✔️When was
your last bm (No bm in 3 days indicates constipation)
What is cyanoisis? - ✔️✔️No oxygen exchange
Which of the following patients would take highest priority: Jaundice yellow skin, Pale skin and
vomiting or Cyanotic? - ✔️✔️Cyanotic (Patient is not getting proper amounts of oxygen exchange)
What are some good assessment questions to ask someone that may be having an allergic reaction?
- ✔️✔️Have you been using any new soaps, lotions, detergent, etc.
When assessing radial pulses, what is it important to do? - ✔️✔️Assess one side to the other
(Should feel both sides at same time to compare)
What sounds will you hear while doing a lung assessment on a patient with an upper airway
obstruction? - ✔️✔️Stridor. This is an upper airway emergency!
When resulting a TB skin test what would you be looking and feeling for if it was irregular? -
✔️✔️Red, raised bump/wheal. Greater than 5mm is positive, pink patches
What sounds will you hear while doing a lung assessment on a patient with a lower airway
obstruction? - ✔️✔️Wheezes
How long should the skin take to turn back to pink when assessing capillary refill? - ✔️✔️Less than
3 seconds (2 seconds or less)
If capillary refill takes more than 2 seconds to turn from pink to white, what is this called? -
✔️✔️Sluggish or slow
Answers/ Verified
If you are doing a cardiovascular assessment and you are hearing a bruit/swooshing sounds in the
patients carotid artery, what does this mean? - ✔️✔️Narrow vessel (Most likely filled with plaque
buildup)
If you are doing a Snellen eye exam from 20 feet away what are you testing? - ✔️✔️Farsided eye
sight
What are 4 things that the skin does? - ✔️✔️Prevention of penetration, temperature regulation,
absorbs Vitamin D and wound repair (repairs itself)
What cannot the skin do? - ✔️✔️Prevent the loss of fluids
When you are doing a lung assessment you should listen from what direction to what direction? -
✔️✔️Right to left
What is the Jaeger card used for? - ✔️✔️Testing nearsided eye sight
If a mole on a patients skin has abnormal pigmentation and is itchy, at what size does the mole
become suspicious? - ✔️✔️6 mm
What are you listening for when listening to bowel sounds? - ✔️✔️Gurgling
If you do not hear any sounds after 1 minute of listening to bowel sounds, what do you do? -
✔️✔️Listen for 4 more minutes for a total of 5 minutes.
What is a hypoactive bowel sound? - ✔️✔️A distant bowel sound (Likely constipation. Only hearing
gurgles every 1-2 minutes)
What is an indication if a patient has yellow skin? - ✔️✔️Jaundice. A liver problem
, If you are palpating lymph nodes in front of the ear, what lymph nodes are you palpating? -
✔️✔️Preoricular
If you are doing an abdominal assessment and you only heat a few gurgles every 1-2 minutes, what
should you suspect is going on with the patient? - ✔️✔️Constipation
What should you always ask a patient when doing an abdominal assessment? - ✔️✔️When was
your last bm (No bm in 3 days indicates constipation)
What is cyanoisis? - ✔️✔️No oxygen exchange
Which of the following patients would take highest priority: Jaundice yellow skin, Pale skin and
vomiting or Cyanotic? - ✔️✔️Cyanotic (Patient is not getting proper amounts of oxygen exchange)
What are some good assessment questions to ask someone that may be having an allergic reaction?
- ✔️✔️Have you been using any new soaps, lotions, detergent, etc.
When assessing radial pulses, what is it important to do? - ✔️✔️Assess one side to the other
(Should feel both sides at same time to compare)
What sounds will you hear while doing a lung assessment on a patient with an upper airway
obstruction? - ✔️✔️Stridor. This is an upper airway emergency!
When resulting a TB skin test what would you be looking and feeling for if it was irregular? -
✔️✔️Red, raised bump/wheal. Greater than 5mm is positive, pink patches
What sounds will you hear while doing a lung assessment on a patient with a lower airway
obstruction? - ✔️✔️Wheezes
How long should the skin take to turn back to pink when assessing capillary refill? - ✔️✔️Less than
3 seconds (2 seconds or less)
If capillary refill takes more than 2 seconds to turn from pink to white, what is this called? -
✔️✔️Sluggish or slow
