NURS 190 SET ALL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET
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✔✔What is a goniometer? - ✔✔measures the degree of joint and flexion and extension
✔✔What is the skin fold caliper? - ✔✔measure the thickness of subcutaneous tissue
✔✔What is a transilluminator? - ✔✔detects blood, fluid, or masses in body cavities
✔✔What are wood lamps? - ✔✔detects fungal infections of the skin
✔✔What is a monofilament? - ✔✔Assesses neuropathy of diabetic patients
✔✔What are the parts of the stethoscope? - ✔✔Binaurals (earpieces)
felxible tubing
end piece (bell and diaphragm)
✔✔Bell vs. Diaphragm - ✔✔Bell is for low pitch sounds (murmurs)
Diaphragm is used for high pitch sounds (heart and lung sounds)
✔✔Can you hear better with short or long tubing of the stethoscope? - ✔✔short tubing
✔✔What is a doppler? - ✔✔Uses ultrasonic waves to detect sounds that are difficult to
hear with a regular stethoscope
Ex) fetal heart sounds and peripheral pulses that cannot be easily palpated
✔✔What is an opthalmoscope? - ✔✔used to view internal structure of the eye
✔✔What is an otoscope? - ✔✔inspects the external ear structures
, ✔✔What should patients do before an examination? - ✔✔empty their bladder
remove clothing, jewelry, hair pieces, enamel
✔✔What makes up the integumentary system? - ✔✔skin, hair, nails
✔✔The cutaneous membrane is made up of what? - ✔✔Epidermis and dermis
✔✔What is the epidermis? and what do they produce? - ✔✔outermost layer of skin
About 25% of the cells in the stratum basale are melanocytes, which produce the skin
pigment called melanin.
✔✔What is the dermis? - ✔✔layer of connective tissue that lies just below the epidermis
collagen- gives skin toughness
elastin- elasticity
✔✔What is subcutaneous tissue? AKA? - ✔✔Hypodermis
store's body's fat cells. used for cushion and insulation
✔✔What is eccrine? - ✔✔More numerous and more widely distributed. They produce a
clear perspiration mostly made up of water and salts, which they release into funnel-
shaped pores at the skin surface.
✔✔What is apocrine? - ✔✔Found primarily in the axillary and anogenital regions. They
are dormant until the onset of puberty. Apocrine glands produce a secretion made up of
water, salts, fatty acids, and proteins, which is released into hair follicles. When
apocrine sweat mixes with bacteria on the skin surface, it assumes a musky odor.
✔✔Sebaceous glands - ✔✔secrete sebum (oil) into the hair follicles where the hair
shafts pass through the dermis
✔✔arrector pili - ✔✔A muscle that causes the hair to contract and stand upright when a
person is under stress or exposed to cold.
✔✔Nails - ✔✔Thin plates of keratinized epidermal cells that shield the distal ends of the
fingers and toe
protect the dorsal surface of the last bone of each toe and finger
✔✔What is trichotillomania? - ✔✔hair pulling/twisiting disorder
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✔✔What is a goniometer? - ✔✔measures the degree of joint and flexion and extension
✔✔What is the skin fold caliper? - ✔✔measure the thickness of subcutaneous tissue
✔✔What is a transilluminator? - ✔✔detects blood, fluid, or masses in body cavities
✔✔What are wood lamps? - ✔✔detects fungal infections of the skin
✔✔What is a monofilament? - ✔✔Assesses neuropathy of diabetic patients
✔✔What are the parts of the stethoscope? - ✔✔Binaurals (earpieces)
felxible tubing
end piece (bell and diaphragm)
✔✔Bell vs. Diaphragm - ✔✔Bell is for low pitch sounds (murmurs)
Diaphragm is used for high pitch sounds (heart and lung sounds)
✔✔Can you hear better with short or long tubing of the stethoscope? - ✔✔short tubing
✔✔What is a doppler? - ✔✔Uses ultrasonic waves to detect sounds that are difficult to
hear with a regular stethoscope
Ex) fetal heart sounds and peripheral pulses that cannot be easily palpated
✔✔What is an opthalmoscope? - ✔✔used to view internal structure of the eye
✔✔What is an otoscope? - ✔✔inspects the external ear structures
, ✔✔What should patients do before an examination? - ✔✔empty their bladder
remove clothing, jewelry, hair pieces, enamel
✔✔What makes up the integumentary system? - ✔✔skin, hair, nails
✔✔The cutaneous membrane is made up of what? - ✔✔Epidermis and dermis
✔✔What is the epidermis? and what do they produce? - ✔✔outermost layer of skin
About 25% of the cells in the stratum basale are melanocytes, which produce the skin
pigment called melanin.
✔✔What is the dermis? - ✔✔layer of connective tissue that lies just below the epidermis
collagen- gives skin toughness
elastin- elasticity
✔✔What is subcutaneous tissue? AKA? - ✔✔Hypodermis
store's body's fat cells. used for cushion and insulation
✔✔What is eccrine? - ✔✔More numerous and more widely distributed. They produce a
clear perspiration mostly made up of water and salts, which they release into funnel-
shaped pores at the skin surface.
✔✔What is apocrine? - ✔✔Found primarily in the axillary and anogenital regions. They
are dormant until the onset of puberty. Apocrine glands produce a secretion made up of
water, salts, fatty acids, and proteins, which is released into hair follicles. When
apocrine sweat mixes with bacteria on the skin surface, it assumes a musky odor.
✔✔Sebaceous glands - ✔✔secrete sebum (oil) into the hair follicles where the hair
shafts pass through the dermis
✔✔arrector pili - ✔✔A muscle that causes the hair to contract and stand upright when a
person is under stress or exposed to cold.
✔✔Nails - ✔✔Thin plates of keratinized epidermal cells that shield the distal ends of the
fingers and toe
protect the dorsal surface of the last bone of each toe and finger
✔✔What is trichotillomania? - ✔✔hair pulling/twisiting disorder
