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NR 283 Study Guide (exam 2) Questions with
100% Correct Answers 2025 | 2026
Question Answer
What is the increased
Dyspnea
effort to breath?
What is the increased
effort to breath when
lying down and develops Orthopnea
when fluid accumulates
into the lungs?
What kind of congestion
develops when blood Pulmonary congestion
flows into the lungs?
Raise the upper part of the
What can you
body in bed to help them
immediately do to help a
breath; it is hard for patients to
patient that has
breath because their abdomen
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Question Answer
respiratory and CVD who contents are pushing up against
needs help breathing? their lungs.
What develops when a
Hypoxia and Respiratory
patient is in severe
alkalosis
respiratory distress?
What physical condition
results from chronic
hypoxia associated with Clubbing
respiratory and
cardiovascular diseases?
Asthma
What do the symptoms
and signs of coughing,
tightening chest with
constricted airways,
Asthma
wheezing, labored and
rapid breathing and
coughing up sticky/ thick
mucous indicate?
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Question Answer
What is the disease that
involves periodic episodes
of severe and reversible
bronchial obstruction Asthma
with hyper
sensitive/responsive
airways?
What disease onsets
during adulthood and is
stimulated by hyper-
Intrinsic asthma
responsive tissues in the
airways, initiating an
acute attack?
COPD/Emphysema
What is the name of the
disorder that is a common
chronic respiratory COPD (Chronic Obstructive
disorders that is Pulmonary Disease)
characterized by
progressive tissue
NR 283 Study Guide (exam 2) Questions with
100% Correct Answers 2025 | 2026
Question Answer
What is the increased
Dyspnea
effort to breath?
What is the increased
effort to breath when
lying down and develops Orthopnea
when fluid accumulates
into the lungs?
What kind of congestion
develops when blood Pulmonary congestion
flows into the lungs?
Raise the upper part of the
What can you
body in bed to help them
immediately do to help a
breath; it is hard for patients to
patient that has
breath because their abdomen
,2|Page
Question Answer
respiratory and CVD who contents are pushing up against
needs help breathing? their lungs.
What develops when a
Hypoxia and Respiratory
patient is in severe
alkalosis
respiratory distress?
What physical condition
results from chronic
hypoxia associated with Clubbing
respiratory and
cardiovascular diseases?
Asthma
What do the symptoms
and signs of coughing,
tightening chest with
constricted airways,
Asthma
wheezing, labored and
rapid breathing and
coughing up sticky/ thick
mucous indicate?
, 3|Page
Question Answer
What is the disease that
involves periodic episodes
of severe and reversible
bronchial obstruction Asthma
with hyper
sensitive/responsive
airways?
What disease onsets
during adulthood and is
stimulated by hyper-
Intrinsic asthma
responsive tissues in the
airways, initiating an
acute attack?
COPD/Emphysema
What is the name of the
disorder that is a common
chronic respiratory COPD (Chronic Obstructive
disorders that is Pulmonary Disease)
characterized by
progressive tissue
