Bates Chapter 4 The Physical Exam
Questions and All Correct Answers
2025-2026 Updated.
What should you do before beginning the physical exam? - Answer 1. Reflect on your
approach
2. Adjust environment
3. Check equipment
4. Make patient comfortable
5. Observe standard and universal precautions
6. Choose the sequence, scope, and positioning of exam
How do you reflect on your approach? - Answer greet patient
-identify yourself as a student
-be calm and organized
-be thorough without wasting time
-systematic but flexible and gentle, but be ok with causing discomfort
How can you make the patient comfortable? - Answer -ensure privacy
-wash hands prior to exam
-ask if they are okay throughout exam
-position them to aid exam
What are the Standard and MRSA Precautions? - Answer Blood, body fluid, secretions,
excretions except sweat, non intact skin, mucous membranes are *infectious*
Should use
-hand hygiene
-PPE
-safe injection practices
-safe handling of contaminated equipment/surfaces
-resp hygiene and cough etiquette
, When should you use alcohol based hand sanitzer? - Answer -before touching patient
-before performing an aseptic task
-before moving from a soiled body site to a clean one on same PT
-after touching PT or their immediate environment
-after contact with blood, body fluids, surface
-immediately after glove removal
When should you wash hands with soap and water? - Answer -when hands are visibly dirty
-after caring for someone with known or suspected diarrhea
-after known or suspected exposure to spores
What are universal precautions? - Answer prevent parenteral, mucous membrane and non-
contact exposures of health care workers to blood-borne pathogens
What fluids are considered potentially infectious? - Answer -blood and all body fluids
containing blood
-semen
-vaginal secretions
-CSF
-synovial fluid
-pleural fluid
-pericardial fluid
-peritoneal fluid
-amniotic fluid
Describe a contact precaution and PPE required - Answer conditions that can be contracted
through touching
-need gloves and gown
Mrs. Wee
M-multi-drug resistant organism MRSA, ESBLs, Candida kruseli, carbapenem resistant gram
negative.
R- respiratory infection
Questions and All Correct Answers
2025-2026 Updated.
What should you do before beginning the physical exam? - Answer 1. Reflect on your
approach
2. Adjust environment
3. Check equipment
4. Make patient comfortable
5. Observe standard and universal precautions
6. Choose the sequence, scope, and positioning of exam
How do you reflect on your approach? - Answer greet patient
-identify yourself as a student
-be calm and organized
-be thorough without wasting time
-systematic but flexible and gentle, but be ok with causing discomfort
How can you make the patient comfortable? - Answer -ensure privacy
-wash hands prior to exam
-ask if they are okay throughout exam
-position them to aid exam
What are the Standard and MRSA Precautions? - Answer Blood, body fluid, secretions,
excretions except sweat, non intact skin, mucous membranes are *infectious*
Should use
-hand hygiene
-PPE
-safe injection practices
-safe handling of contaminated equipment/surfaces
-resp hygiene and cough etiquette
, When should you use alcohol based hand sanitzer? - Answer -before touching patient
-before performing an aseptic task
-before moving from a soiled body site to a clean one on same PT
-after touching PT or their immediate environment
-after contact with blood, body fluids, surface
-immediately after glove removal
When should you wash hands with soap and water? - Answer -when hands are visibly dirty
-after caring for someone with known or suspected diarrhea
-after known or suspected exposure to spores
What are universal precautions? - Answer prevent parenteral, mucous membrane and non-
contact exposures of health care workers to blood-borne pathogens
What fluids are considered potentially infectious? - Answer -blood and all body fluids
containing blood
-semen
-vaginal secretions
-CSF
-synovial fluid
-pleural fluid
-pericardial fluid
-peritoneal fluid
-amniotic fluid
Describe a contact precaution and PPE required - Answer conditions that can be contracted
through touching
-need gloves and gown
Mrs. Wee
M-multi-drug resistant organism MRSA, ESBLs, Candida kruseli, carbapenem resistant gram
negative.
R- respiratory infection
