GNRS 578 HEALTH ASSESSMENT EXAM 2 |QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS |PRE-EVALUATED A+
Fontanel - answer-membrane covered "soft spots" that separate the neonatal skull
and allow for growth during the 1st year.
Nuchal rigidity - answer-resistance to flexion
Presyncope - answer-feeling faint
Disequilibrium - answer-shakiness or instability when walking
Normocephalic - answer-round, symmetric skull that is appropriately related to body
size
Tic - answer-involuntary movement in facial muscles
Lymphadenopathy - answer-enlarged lymph nodes
,How can you locate the c7 vertebra? - answer-c7 has a long spinous process that is
palpable when the head is flexed
What is the other name for c7? - answer-vertebra prominens
The border shared by the anterior and posterior triangles of the neck is formed by
which muscle? -
Answer-sternomastoid muscle
Name lymph nodes (also know where they are) - answer-preauricular
Posterior auricular
occipital
Submental
submandibular
Jugulodigastric
superficial
cervical deep
cervical posterior
cervical
supraclavicular
If a lymph node is enlarged do you look upstream or downstream for the source of
the problem? - answer-upstream
What are the 4 areas that lymph nodes are accessible to examination? - answer-
head & neck arms
, Axillae
inguinal
region
Why do older adult's facial bones and orbits appear increased in prominence? -
answer-they have decreased elasticity, decreased subcutaneous fat, decreased
moisture in skin
How do you palpate deep chain lymph nodes? Supraclavicular lymph nodes? -
answer-deep chain lymph nodes: tip the person's head toward the side being
examined to relax the ipsilateral muscle supraclavicular: have patient hunch
shoulders and elbows forward
Characteristics of cancerous lymph nodes -
answer-hard larger than 3cm unilateral fixed
If a patient has a pneumothorax on their left lung which way would the trachea shift?
- answer-right -- away from the side of the pneumothorax due to air in the pleural
space creating pressure and pushing the trachea and mediastinum away from it
If a patient had an atelectasis on their left lung which side would the trachea shift? -
answer-left
Primary vs. Secondary headache - answer-primary: due to headache condition itself
& not to another cause secondary: headache presents because of another
condition
WITH CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS |PRE-EVALUATED A+
Fontanel - answer-membrane covered "soft spots" that separate the neonatal skull
and allow for growth during the 1st year.
Nuchal rigidity - answer-resistance to flexion
Presyncope - answer-feeling faint
Disequilibrium - answer-shakiness or instability when walking
Normocephalic - answer-round, symmetric skull that is appropriately related to body
size
Tic - answer-involuntary movement in facial muscles
Lymphadenopathy - answer-enlarged lymph nodes
,How can you locate the c7 vertebra? - answer-c7 has a long spinous process that is
palpable when the head is flexed
What is the other name for c7? - answer-vertebra prominens
The border shared by the anterior and posterior triangles of the neck is formed by
which muscle? -
Answer-sternomastoid muscle
Name lymph nodes (also know where they are) - answer-preauricular
Posterior auricular
occipital
Submental
submandibular
Jugulodigastric
superficial
cervical deep
cervical posterior
cervical
supraclavicular
If a lymph node is enlarged do you look upstream or downstream for the source of
the problem? - answer-upstream
What are the 4 areas that lymph nodes are accessible to examination? - answer-
head & neck arms
, Axillae
inguinal
region
Why do older adult's facial bones and orbits appear increased in prominence? -
answer-they have decreased elasticity, decreased subcutaneous fat, decreased
moisture in skin
How do you palpate deep chain lymph nodes? Supraclavicular lymph nodes? -
answer-deep chain lymph nodes: tip the person's head toward the side being
examined to relax the ipsilateral muscle supraclavicular: have patient hunch
shoulders and elbows forward
Characteristics of cancerous lymph nodes -
answer-hard larger than 3cm unilateral fixed
If a patient has a pneumothorax on their left lung which way would the trachea shift?
- answer-right -- away from the side of the pneumothorax due to air in the pleural
space creating pressure and pushing the trachea and mediastinum away from it
If a patient had an atelectasis on their left lung which side would the trachea shift? -
answer-left
Primary vs. Secondary headache - answer-primary: due to headache condition itself
& not to another cause secondary: headache presents because of another
condition
