NU650
NU650 / NU 650 Exam 1:(Latest Update 2025
/ 2026) Advanced Health Assessment /
Nursing | Questions and Answers | 100%
Correct | Grade A. Regis
1. flat or dull percussion: effusion or pneumonia
2. Normal resonant percussion: healthy lung
3. hyperresonance (percussion): trapped air
4. Crackles/rales: high pitched, discontinuous
5. Wheezes: high-pitched whistling or squeaking sounds during inspiration
or expiration
6. Rhonchi: snoring, rumbling sounds heard upon auscultation of the chest
during respiration
7. Tactile fremitus - increased fremitus: means there is liquid or solid
inside the lungs (consolidation with PNA), remember liquid or solid
transmits vibrations better than air
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, NU650
8. decreased fremitus: means air trapping such as with emphysema or
bronchial obstruction
9. Bronchophony: the spoken voice sound heard through the stethoscope,
which sounds soft, muffled, and indistinct over normal lung tissue
10. Egophony: abnormal change in tone of voice that is heard when
auscultating the lungs EE --> AA
11. UE arteries: radial thumb side, ulnar pinky side
12. Three dimensions of cultural humility: Self-awareness: Learn about
your biases, we all have them
Respectful communication: Work to eliminate assumptions about what is
"normal".
Learn directly from your patients; they are the experts of their culture and
illness. Collaborative partnerships: Build your patient relationships on respect
and mutually acceptable plans
13. Confirmation bias: seeking supportive evidence for a diagnosis at the
exclusion of more persuasive information refuting it
-A clinician makes a presumptive diagnosis of an upper respiratory infection
and a well appearing patient presenting with cough, rhinorrhea and fever and
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NU650 / NU 650 Exam 1:(Latest Update 2025
/ 2026) Advanced Health Assessment /
Nursing | Questions and Answers | 100%
Correct | Grade A. Regis
1. flat or dull percussion: effusion or pneumonia
2. Normal resonant percussion: healthy lung
3. hyperresonance (percussion): trapped air
4. Crackles/rales: high pitched, discontinuous
5. Wheezes: high-pitched whistling or squeaking sounds during inspiration
or expiration
6. Rhonchi: snoring, rumbling sounds heard upon auscultation of the chest
during respiration
7. Tactile fremitus - increased fremitus: means there is liquid or solid
inside the lungs (consolidation with PNA), remember liquid or solid
transmits vibrations better than air
1/9
, NU650
8. decreased fremitus: means air trapping such as with emphysema or
bronchial obstruction
9. Bronchophony: the spoken voice sound heard through the stethoscope,
which sounds soft, muffled, and indistinct over normal lung tissue
10. Egophony: abnormal change in tone of voice that is heard when
auscultating the lungs EE --> AA
11. UE arteries: radial thumb side, ulnar pinky side
12. Three dimensions of cultural humility: Self-awareness: Learn about
your biases, we all have them
Respectful communication: Work to eliminate assumptions about what is
"normal".
Learn directly from your patients; they are the experts of their culture and
illness. Collaborative partnerships: Build your patient relationships on respect
and mutually acceptable plans
13. Confirmation bias: seeking supportive evidence for a diagnosis at the
exclusion of more persuasive information refuting it
-A clinician makes a presumptive diagnosis of an upper respiratory infection
and a well appearing patient presenting with cough, rhinorrhea and fever and
2/9
