WGU PHYSICAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT
EXAM 2024/2025 WITH 100% ACCURATE
SOLUTIONS
1. Back of hand (dorsal aspect) to assess skin temperature
2. Fingers to assess texture, moisture, areas of tenderness
3. Assess size, shape, and consistency of lesions and organs 4. Deep = 5-
8 cm (2-3") deep; Light = 1 cm deep - Precise Answer ✔✔how to
palpate for skin assessment
Direct auscultation - sounds are audible without stethoscope
2. Indirect auscultation - uses stethoscope
6. Flat diaphragm picks up high-pitched respiratory sounds best. 7. Bell
picks up low pitched sounds such as heart murmurs - Precise Answer
✔✔Direct Auscultation
Indirect
an overall review or first impression a nurse has of a person's well being.
This is done head to toe, or cephalo-caudal, lateral to lateral, proximal to
distal, and front to back. - Precise Answer ✔✔what is a General survey
including chief complaint or reason for the visit, a complete review of
systems, and a complete past family and/or social history should be
obtained on the first encounter with a patient, regardless of setting and
,by a registered nurse. - Precise Answer ✔✔What does A comprehensive
history consist of
completed across three generations looking specifically for patterns in
genetic issues that negatively impact quality of life. - Precise Answer
✔✔How to get Usually family health histories Time periods
children from birth to 36 months of age. - Precise Answer ✔✔what age
to perform head circumference
Obtain height by measuring the recumbent length - Precise Answer
✔✔how do you obtain children that can not stand
1. Balance beam or digital scales should be used to weigh patients of all
ages. Spring type scales are not acceptable. - Precise Answer
✔✔Measuring weight:
measure that can help determine if a person is at risk for a weight-related
illness. - Precise Answer ✔✔The Body Mass Index (BMI) is a
Obtain head circumference measurement on children from birth to 36
months of age by extending a non-stretchable measuring tape around the
broadest part of the child's head. For greatest accuracy, the tape is placed
three times, with a reading taken at the right side, at the left side, and at
the mid-forehead, and the greatest circumference is plotted. 2. Head
circumference should be measured each visit. - Precise Answer
✔✔Head Circumference
, 3. Chest: This is measured at the nipple line. - Precise Answer ✔✔Chest
Circumference
4. In a newborn, the head circumference will be about 2 cm largerthan
the chest circumference. As the child ages, the chest circumference
becomes larger than the head circumference. - Precise Answer ✔✔What
becomes larger as you grow
HR birth140 and decreases as you age
BP birth 70 and increases as you age - Precise Answer ✔✔What
decreases and what increases as you age
heat stroke, shock or other cardiac complications. - Precise Answer
✔✔Pale, cool, moist skin can be indicative of
a hemorrhagic spot, larger than a petechia, in the skin or mucous
membrane, forming a flat, rounded or irregular, blue or purplish patch. -
Precise Answer ✔✔ecchymosis
A discolored spot or area on the skin that is not elevated above the
surface and is characteristic of certain conditions, such as smallpox,
purpura, or roseola. Also called macula. - Precise Answer ✔✔macule
A small, solid, usually inflammatory elevation of the skin that does not
contain pus. - Precise Answer ✔✔papule
EXAM 2024/2025 WITH 100% ACCURATE
SOLUTIONS
1. Back of hand (dorsal aspect) to assess skin temperature
2. Fingers to assess texture, moisture, areas of tenderness
3. Assess size, shape, and consistency of lesions and organs 4. Deep = 5-
8 cm (2-3") deep; Light = 1 cm deep - Precise Answer ✔✔how to
palpate for skin assessment
Direct auscultation - sounds are audible without stethoscope
2. Indirect auscultation - uses stethoscope
6. Flat diaphragm picks up high-pitched respiratory sounds best. 7. Bell
picks up low pitched sounds such as heart murmurs - Precise Answer
✔✔Direct Auscultation
Indirect
an overall review or first impression a nurse has of a person's well being.
This is done head to toe, or cephalo-caudal, lateral to lateral, proximal to
distal, and front to back. - Precise Answer ✔✔what is a General survey
including chief complaint or reason for the visit, a complete review of
systems, and a complete past family and/or social history should be
obtained on the first encounter with a patient, regardless of setting and
,by a registered nurse. - Precise Answer ✔✔What does A comprehensive
history consist of
completed across three generations looking specifically for patterns in
genetic issues that negatively impact quality of life. - Precise Answer
✔✔How to get Usually family health histories Time periods
children from birth to 36 months of age. - Precise Answer ✔✔what age
to perform head circumference
Obtain height by measuring the recumbent length - Precise Answer
✔✔how do you obtain children that can not stand
1. Balance beam or digital scales should be used to weigh patients of all
ages. Spring type scales are not acceptable. - Precise Answer
✔✔Measuring weight:
measure that can help determine if a person is at risk for a weight-related
illness. - Precise Answer ✔✔The Body Mass Index (BMI) is a
Obtain head circumference measurement on children from birth to 36
months of age by extending a non-stretchable measuring tape around the
broadest part of the child's head. For greatest accuracy, the tape is placed
three times, with a reading taken at the right side, at the left side, and at
the mid-forehead, and the greatest circumference is plotted. 2. Head
circumference should be measured each visit. - Precise Answer
✔✔Head Circumference
, 3. Chest: This is measured at the nipple line. - Precise Answer ✔✔Chest
Circumference
4. In a newborn, the head circumference will be about 2 cm largerthan
the chest circumference. As the child ages, the chest circumference
becomes larger than the head circumference. - Precise Answer ✔✔What
becomes larger as you grow
HR birth140 and decreases as you age
BP birth 70 and increases as you age - Precise Answer ✔✔What
decreases and what increases as you age
heat stroke, shock or other cardiac complications. - Precise Answer
✔✔Pale, cool, moist skin can be indicative of
a hemorrhagic spot, larger than a petechia, in the skin or mucous
membrane, forming a flat, rounded or irregular, blue or purplish patch. -
Precise Answer ✔✔ecchymosis
A discolored spot or area on the skin that is not elevated above the
surface and is characteristic of certain conditions, such as smallpox,
purpura, or roseola. Also called macula. - Precise Answer ✔✔macule
A small, solid, usually inflammatory elevation of the skin that does not
contain pus. - Precise Answer ✔✔papule
