ACTUAL NUR 100 FINAL EXAM |2025-2026 LATEST UPDATED|REAL
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | 100% RATED CORRECT | 100%
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How is the chief complaint documented? - (answer)Quotes
Acronym used to illicit the history of present illness - (answer)OLDCARTS
What is the main purpose of a comprehensive health history? - (answer)Establish a baseline
What are examples of therapeutic communication? - (answer)•Active listening
•Restatement
•Reflection
•Facilitation
•Silence
•Focusing
•Clarification
•Summarizing
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Reliable Historian - (answer)A patient that provides information that is consistent with existing
records and is comprehensive in scope
General Survey - (answer)•Begins with the first moment of the patient encounter and continues
with each interaction that follows
•Physical appearance, body structure, mobility, behavior
Ausculatory Gap - (answer)A period of silence heard between Kortokoff sounds
Hyperventilation - (answer)Deep, rapid respirations which may result from hypoxia, anxiety,
exercise or metabolic acidosis
Pulse Pressure - (answer)Difference between the systolic blood pressure and the diastolic blood
pressure which reflects the stroke volume
Dyspnea - (answer)Shortness of breath
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Paraoxysmal Nocturnal Dyspnea - (answer)Condition where patients awaken at night with
shortness of breath
What are some signs of respiratory distress? - (answer)•Pursed lip breathing
•Nasal flaring
•Gasping
•Grunting
•Retractions
Vesicular Breath Sounds - (answer)Soft, low pitched sounds found over fine airways near the site
of air exchange
Rhonchi - (answer)•Continuous, low pitched, snoring sounds resulting from secretions in the
airways
•May clear with coughing
Bruits - (answer)Swooshing sounds similar to the sound the blood pressure makes
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What heart sound correlates with the carotid pulse? - (answer)S1
What are some cardiovascular risk factors? - (answer)•Smoking
•High cholesterol
•Diet high in saturated fats
•Sedentary lifestyle
•HTN
•Diabetes
•Obesity
Intermittent Claudication - (answer)Pain that occurs with walking that diminishes with rest
Signs of Heart Failure - (answer)•Jugular vein distention
•Weight gain
•Dyspnea
•Edema