NUSA 401 Exam 1 |Questions with 100% correct
answers
Perceptions - ✔️✔️awareness of objects through any of the five sense
Nosocomial infection - ✔️✔️an infection acquired during hospitalization
Sphygmomanometer - ✔️✔️instrument for measuring arterial blood pressure
Bradycardia - ✔️✔️heart rate is less than 50 beats per minute in the adult
Tachycardia - ✔️✔️heart rate is greater than 90 bpm in the adult
Acute pain - ✔️✔️short-term, self-limiting, often predictable trajectory; stops after injury heals
Chronic pain - ✔️✔️pain continues for 6 months or longer after initial injury
Referred pain - ✔️✔️Pain felt at a particular site but originates from another location
Somatic pain - ✔️✔️originating from muscle, bone, joints, tendons, or blood vessels
Visceral pain - ✔️✔️originating from interior organs such as the gallbladder or stomach
Diet History - ✔️✔️a detailed record of dietary intake obtainable from 24 hour recalls, food
frequency questionnaires, food diaries, and similar methods
, Malnutrition - ✔️✔️may mean any nutrition disorder but usually refers to long term nutritional
inadequacies or excesses
Nutrition screening - ✔️✔️a process used to identify individuals at nutrition risk or with
nutritional problems
Obesity - ✔️✔️excessive accumulation of body fat; usually defined as 20% above desirable
weight or body mass index 30.0 to 39.9
Alopecia - ✔️✔️(baldness) hair loss
Cyanosis - ✔️✔️dusky blue color to skin or mucous membranes due to increased amount of
unoxygenated hemoglobin
Erythema - ✔️✔️intense redness of the skin due to excess blood in dilated superficial capillaries,
as in fever or inflammation
Excoriation - ✔️✔️self-inflicted abrasion on skin due to scratching
Ecchymosis - ✔️✔️a discoloration of the skin resulting from bleeding underneath, typically
caused by bruising
Jaundice - ✔️✔️yellow color to skin, palate, and sclera due to excess bilirubin in the blood
Pruritis - ✔️✔️itching
Purpura - ✔️✔️red purple skin lesion due to blood in tissues from breaks in blood vessels
answers
Perceptions - ✔️✔️awareness of objects through any of the five sense
Nosocomial infection - ✔️✔️an infection acquired during hospitalization
Sphygmomanometer - ✔️✔️instrument for measuring arterial blood pressure
Bradycardia - ✔️✔️heart rate is less than 50 beats per minute in the adult
Tachycardia - ✔️✔️heart rate is greater than 90 bpm in the adult
Acute pain - ✔️✔️short-term, self-limiting, often predictable trajectory; stops after injury heals
Chronic pain - ✔️✔️pain continues for 6 months or longer after initial injury
Referred pain - ✔️✔️Pain felt at a particular site but originates from another location
Somatic pain - ✔️✔️originating from muscle, bone, joints, tendons, or blood vessels
Visceral pain - ✔️✔️originating from interior organs such as the gallbladder or stomach
Diet History - ✔️✔️a detailed record of dietary intake obtainable from 24 hour recalls, food
frequency questionnaires, food diaries, and similar methods
, Malnutrition - ✔️✔️may mean any nutrition disorder but usually refers to long term nutritional
inadequacies or excesses
Nutrition screening - ✔️✔️a process used to identify individuals at nutrition risk or with
nutritional problems
Obesity - ✔️✔️excessive accumulation of body fat; usually defined as 20% above desirable
weight or body mass index 30.0 to 39.9
Alopecia - ✔️✔️(baldness) hair loss
Cyanosis - ✔️✔️dusky blue color to skin or mucous membranes due to increased amount of
unoxygenated hemoglobin
Erythema - ✔️✔️intense redness of the skin due to excess blood in dilated superficial capillaries,
as in fever or inflammation
Excoriation - ✔️✔️self-inflicted abrasion on skin due to scratching
Ecchymosis - ✔️✔️a discoloration of the skin resulting from bleeding underneath, typically
caused by bruising
Jaundice - ✔️✔️yellow color to skin, palate, and sclera due to excess bilirubin in the blood
Pruritis - ✔️✔️itching
Purpura - ✔️✔️red purple skin lesion due to blood in tissues from breaks in blood vessels
