NURS 307 Health Assessment CHp 14& 15
Questions with Detailed Verified Answers
What is located at the right and left 2nd intercostal spaces next to the sternum?
a. Base of the heart
b. Apex of the heart
c. Pulmonary vein
d. Aortic valve Ans: a. Base of the heart
When a patient is obese or has a thick chest wall, what is difficult to palpate?
a. JVP
b. Apical impulse
c. Grade 4 murmur
d. Sternal angle Ans: b. Apical impulse
What is the normal peak pressure of the left ventricle?
a. 90 mm Hg
b. 100 mm Hg
c. 110 mm Hg
,d. 120 mm Hg Ans: d. 120 mm Hg
A 78-year-old male Hispanic patient is noted to have a pathologic change in ventricular
compliance. What information from the cardiac assessment would indicate this?
a. A split S2
b. An S3 gallop
c. A delayed S3
d. A weak S4 Ans: b. An S3 gallop
What are the components of S1? (Mark all that apply.)
a. An earlier aortic sound
b. An earlier mitral sound
c. A later pulmonic sound
d. A later tricuspid sound
e. An earlier tricuspid sound Ans: b. An earlier mitral sound
d. A later tricuspid sound
Your patient asks you what the small P wave on her ECG indicates. What would you
answer?
a. Atrial depolarization
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, b. Ventricular depolarization
c. Atrial Repolarizatioin
d. Ventricular repolarization Ans: a. Atrial depolarizaton
What term is used to describe the degree of vascular resistance to ventricular
contraction?
a. Contractile overload
b. Volume overload
c. Preload
d. Afterload Ans: d. Afterload
When, in the cardiac cycle, does blood pressure peak?
a. Preload
b. Systole
c. Diastole
d. Afterload Ans: b. Systole
Over a 24-hour period there is a striking variation in blood pressure levels. What can
cause these variations? (Mark all that apply.)
a. Time of day
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Questions with Detailed Verified Answers
What is located at the right and left 2nd intercostal spaces next to the sternum?
a. Base of the heart
b. Apex of the heart
c. Pulmonary vein
d. Aortic valve Ans: a. Base of the heart
When a patient is obese or has a thick chest wall, what is difficult to palpate?
a. JVP
b. Apical impulse
c. Grade 4 murmur
d. Sternal angle Ans: b. Apical impulse
What is the normal peak pressure of the left ventricle?
a. 90 mm Hg
b. 100 mm Hg
c. 110 mm Hg
,d. 120 mm Hg Ans: d. 120 mm Hg
A 78-year-old male Hispanic patient is noted to have a pathologic change in ventricular
compliance. What information from the cardiac assessment would indicate this?
a. A split S2
b. An S3 gallop
c. A delayed S3
d. A weak S4 Ans: b. An S3 gallop
What are the components of S1? (Mark all that apply.)
a. An earlier aortic sound
b. An earlier mitral sound
c. A later pulmonic sound
d. A later tricuspid sound
e. An earlier tricuspid sound Ans: b. An earlier mitral sound
d. A later tricuspid sound
Your patient asks you what the small P wave on her ECG indicates. What would you
answer?
a. Atrial depolarization
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, b. Ventricular depolarization
c. Atrial Repolarizatioin
d. Ventricular repolarization Ans: a. Atrial depolarizaton
What term is used to describe the degree of vascular resistance to ventricular
contraction?
a. Contractile overload
b. Volume overload
c. Preload
d. Afterload Ans: d. Afterload
When, in the cardiac cycle, does blood pressure peak?
a. Preload
b. Systole
c. Diastole
d. Afterload Ans: b. Systole
Over a 24-hour period there is a striking variation in blood pressure levels. What can
cause these variations? (Mark all that apply.)
a. Time of day
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