BNS - Exam 1 Questions with Correct Answers Latest Update 2025/2026
Temperature
Pulse
Respiration
Oxygen saturation
Blood pressure
Pain - Answers What are the 6 Vital Signs?
Inspection and Observation - Answers Assessment through sense of sight
Auscultation - Answers Assessment through listening with stethoscope
Palpation - Answers Assessment through touch. Using pads or palm of hands and thumb and
index finger to feel parts of body.
Percussion - Answers Assessment through light, quick tapping on body surface to produce
sounds.
Olfaction - Answers Assessment through sense of smell
Temperature - Answers Body Heat by product of metabolism. Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR).
- Thyroid and other hormones
- Muscle movement (voluntary or involuntary) - Answers Factors that Affect Body Heat
- Hypothalamus
- Heat Loss (radiation, conduction, convection and evaporation) - Answers How Body
Temperature is Regulated
- Time of day
- Environmental temperatures
- Patient's age
- Physical exercise
- Menstrual cycle and pregnancy
- Emotional stress
- Disease conditions
, - Drugs - Answers Factors Affecting Body Temperatures
Fever - Answers Pyrexia
100.2° - Answers Hyperthermia (fever) is reached when temperature reaches over __________.
101.3° - Answers Hyperthermia is not significant until what temperature?
Infection - Answers Fever is the body's natural defense against ____________.
Body cells - Answers Temperatures over 105.8° can result in damage to ______________.
Brain injury - Answers Hyperthermia may occur after _______________.
Chills - Answers Caused by rapid muscle contraction and relaxation. Body's way of producing
heat when it feels cold. Often predicts unset of fever or increase in core temperature
Constant - Answers Fever Pattern: Continuously elevated
Intermittent - Answers Fever Pattern: Rises and falls
Remittent - Answers Fever Pattern: Falls but not to normal
Relapsing - Answers Fever Pattern: Falls to normal then rises again
Onset
Febrile
Defervescence - Answers What are the 3 stages of fever?
95°F - Answers Hypothermia is reached when temperature reaches below _________.
Hypothermia - Answers Hypothalamus is greatly impaired when temp falls below 95°F; cell
activity is down. Less heat is produced; sleepiness and coma are apt to develop.
slowly / irregular heart rhythm and shock - Answers With Hypothermia raise temperature
____________ to avoid risk of _____________________________.
97.5° - 99.5°F - Answers What is the range for normal body temperature?
Core - Answers ___________ temperatures most important.
at site / rich - Answers Temperature is most accurate when measured ______________ with
____________ blood supply
- A rectal thermometer reading
- A tympanic thermometer reading
Temperature
Pulse
Respiration
Oxygen saturation
Blood pressure
Pain - Answers What are the 6 Vital Signs?
Inspection and Observation - Answers Assessment through sense of sight
Auscultation - Answers Assessment through listening with stethoscope
Palpation - Answers Assessment through touch. Using pads or palm of hands and thumb and
index finger to feel parts of body.
Percussion - Answers Assessment through light, quick tapping on body surface to produce
sounds.
Olfaction - Answers Assessment through sense of smell
Temperature - Answers Body Heat by product of metabolism. Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR).
- Thyroid and other hormones
- Muscle movement (voluntary or involuntary) - Answers Factors that Affect Body Heat
- Hypothalamus
- Heat Loss (radiation, conduction, convection and evaporation) - Answers How Body
Temperature is Regulated
- Time of day
- Environmental temperatures
- Patient's age
- Physical exercise
- Menstrual cycle and pregnancy
- Emotional stress
- Disease conditions
, - Drugs - Answers Factors Affecting Body Temperatures
Fever - Answers Pyrexia
100.2° - Answers Hyperthermia (fever) is reached when temperature reaches over __________.
101.3° - Answers Hyperthermia is not significant until what temperature?
Infection - Answers Fever is the body's natural defense against ____________.
Body cells - Answers Temperatures over 105.8° can result in damage to ______________.
Brain injury - Answers Hyperthermia may occur after _______________.
Chills - Answers Caused by rapid muscle contraction and relaxation. Body's way of producing
heat when it feels cold. Often predicts unset of fever or increase in core temperature
Constant - Answers Fever Pattern: Continuously elevated
Intermittent - Answers Fever Pattern: Rises and falls
Remittent - Answers Fever Pattern: Falls but not to normal
Relapsing - Answers Fever Pattern: Falls to normal then rises again
Onset
Febrile
Defervescence - Answers What are the 3 stages of fever?
95°F - Answers Hypothermia is reached when temperature reaches below _________.
Hypothermia - Answers Hypothalamus is greatly impaired when temp falls below 95°F; cell
activity is down. Less heat is produced; sleepiness and coma are apt to develop.
slowly / irregular heart rhythm and shock - Answers With Hypothermia raise temperature
____________ to avoid risk of _____________________________.
97.5° - 99.5°F - Answers What is the range for normal body temperature?
Core - Answers ___________ temperatures most important.
at site / rich - Answers Temperature is most accurate when measured ______________ with
____________ blood supply
- A rectal thermometer reading
- A tympanic thermometer reading
