NURS 5220: ADVANCED HEALTH
ASSESSMENT TEST 2 PREP QUESTIONS
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Abdominal percussion sounds - correct answer -
Resonance heard over abdominal intestines
Dullness heard over liver and spleen (and other
organs)
Tympany heard over gastric air bubble
Acute glomerulonephritis - correct answer -
inflammation of the capillary loops of the renal
glomeruli
Acute pancreatitis - correct answer - Acute
inflammatory process in which release of
pancreatic enzymes results in glandular
autodigestion
Assessing cranial nerves in infants - correct
answer - In infants, cranial nerves can be
assessed by observing:
,CN II, III, IV, and VI can be assessed by looking for
optical blink reflex, gaze and tracking, doll's eye
CN V is evaluated with rooting and sucking reflex
CN VII look at facial expression, forehead wrinkling,
smiling
CN VIII look at acoustic blink reflex, doll's eye
manuever
CN IX, X evaluate swallow and gag reflex
CN XII evaluate sucking and swallowing ability,
tongue position with pinch test
Auscultating bowel sounds: Borborygmi - correct
answer - Loud prolonged gurgles
Auscultating bowel sounds: Bruit - correct
answer - Harsh/musical intermittent sound
(Heard over abdominal aorta)
Auscultating bowel sounds: Friction rub - correct
answer - High pitched with respirations
,Auscultating bowel sounds: hypoactive - correct
answer - No bowel sounds heard for 5 minutes in
each quadrant
Auscultating bowel sounds: Obstruction - correct
answer - High pitched tinkling (intestinal fluid/air
under pressure)
Auscultating bowel sounds: Venous hum - correct
answer - Soft/low pitched continuous sound
Balantis - correct answer - inflammation of the
glans penis
Beevor's sign - correct answer - This is an
abdominal reflex
Lightly stroke all 4 quadrants of abdomen around
umbilicus, abdominal muscles and umbilicus
should contract inward slightly/twitch
Bell palsy - correct answer - Acute paralysis or
weakness of one side of the face that may have
partial or complete resolution
, Biliary atresia - correct answer - congenital
obstruction or absence of some or all of the bile
duct system resulting in bile flow obstruction
most have complete absence of the entire
extrahepatic biliary tree
Blumberg's sign - correct answer - rebound
tenderness
Breast abnormalities: Duct ectasia - correct
answer - Benign condition of the subareolar ducts
that produce nipple discharge
Breast abnormalities: fat necrosis - correct
answer - Benign breast lump occurs as
inflammatory response to local injury
Breast abnormalities: fibroadenoma - correct
answer - Benign tumors composed of stromal and
epithelial elements that represent a hyperplastic or
proliferative process in a single terminal ductal unit
ASSESSMENT TEST 2 PREP QUESTIONS
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Abdominal percussion sounds - correct answer -
Resonance heard over abdominal intestines
Dullness heard over liver and spleen (and other
organs)
Tympany heard over gastric air bubble
Acute glomerulonephritis - correct answer -
inflammation of the capillary loops of the renal
glomeruli
Acute pancreatitis - correct answer - Acute
inflammatory process in which release of
pancreatic enzymes results in glandular
autodigestion
Assessing cranial nerves in infants - correct
answer - In infants, cranial nerves can be
assessed by observing:
,CN II, III, IV, and VI can be assessed by looking for
optical blink reflex, gaze and tracking, doll's eye
CN V is evaluated with rooting and sucking reflex
CN VII look at facial expression, forehead wrinkling,
smiling
CN VIII look at acoustic blink reflex, doll's eye
manuever
CN IX, X evaluate swallow and gag reflex
CN XII evaluate sucking and swallowing ability,
tongue position with pinch test
Auscultating bowel sounds: Borborygmi - correct
answer - Loud prolonged gurgles
Auscultating bowel sounds: Bruit - correct
answer - Harsh/musical intermittent sound
(Heard over abdominal aorta)
Auscultating bowel sounds: Friction rub - correct
answer - High pitched with respirations
,Auscultating bowel sounds: hypoactive - correct
answer - No bowel sounds heard for 5 minutes in
each quadrant
Auscultating bowel sounds: Obstruction - correct
answer - High pitched tinkling (intestinal fluid/air
under pressure)
Auscultating bowel sounds: Venous hum - correct
answer - Soft/low pitched continuous sound
Balantis - correct answer - inflammation of the
glans penis
Beevor's sign - correct answer - This is an
abdominal reflex
Lightly stroke all 4 quadrants of abdomen around
umbilicus, abdominal muscles and umbilicus
should contract inward slightly/twitch
Bell palsy - correct answer - Acute paralysis or
weakness of one side of the face that may have
partial or complete resolution
, Biliary atresia - correct answer - congenital
obstruction or absence of some or all of the bile
duct system resulting in bile flow obstruction
most have complete absence of the entire
extrahepatic biliary tree
Blumberg's sign - correct answer - rebound
tenderness
Breast abnormalities: Duct ectasia - correct
answer - Benign condition of the subareolar ducts
that produce nipple discharge
Breast abnormalities: fat necrosis - correct
answer - Benign breast lump occurs as
inflammatory response to local injury
Breast abnormalities: fibroadenoma - correct
answer - Benign tumors composed of stromal and
epithelial elements that represent a hyperplastic or
proliferative process in a single terminal ductal unit
