Bsnc Comprehensive Questions And Answers Sure A.pdf

BSNC COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Assess Gas Exchange - ✔✔Inspect
Measure
Auscultate
Smell

✔✔Assess: Inspect - ✔✔Posture
Skin colour
Breathing Effort
Breathing Pattern
Sputum colour/consistency

✔✔Assess: Measure - ✔✔RR
O2 saturation
HR
Temperature

✔✔Assess: Auscultate - ✔✔Lung Sounds
Cough
Breathing Characteristics

✔✔Assess: Smell - ✔✔Sputum

✔✔Signs of Impaired Gas Exchange - ✔✔SOB
Disorientation/Dizziness
Cough
Pursed lip breathing
Cyanosis
Nasal congestion
Tripod positioning, using pillows
Wheezing, crackles, no sound

, Barrel Chest
Orthopnea

✔✔Symptoms of Impaired Gas Exchange - ✔✔SOB
Disorientation
Cough
Pursed lip breathing
Cyan
Fatigue
Decreased appetite
Insomnia

✔✔Bradypnea - ✔✔< 12 bpm

✔✔Tachypnea - ✔✔> 20 bpm

✔✔Hyperventilation - ✔✔> 20 bpm and deep

✔✔Barrel Chest - ✔✔From 2:1 to 1:1 ratio

✔✔Signs/Symptoms of COPD - ✔✔- Dyspnea
- Nasal flaring
- Disorientation
- Confusion
- Anxiety
- Cough
- Pursed lip breathing
- Cyanosis
- Barrel Chest
- Wheeze / Diminished / Crackles / Absent
- Oxygen saturation < 95%
- Positioning: tripod, pillows, orthopnea
- Sputum

✔✔Pulmonary Function Test - ✔✔- Assess lung function and determine degree of lung
damage
- Can assess how disease has progressed and if treatment is working
- Spirometry: how fast and how much air you breathe out

✔✔Pulse Oximetry - ✔✔- Monitors O2 saturation
- Finger, ear, toe
- Check how well heart is pumping O2 through body
- Measures % of O2 bound to Hb via light absorption of oxygenated vs deoxygenated
Hb molecules