TITLE: EMILLYCHARLOTTE 2024/2025 ACADEMIC PERIOD
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NHA Exam Study Guide with Complete
Solutions
Heart rates - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Normal: 60-100 beats/min
Athletes (normal): ~40 beats/min
Tachycardia: > 100 beats/min
Bradycardia: < 60 beats/min
*dizziness and shortness of breath may indicate tachy and bradycardia
*measure for 1min.
Temperature - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Normal: 97.6-99.6 F (36.4-37.6 C)
Fever (oral): >100 F (37.8 C)
Fever (rectal/ear): >101 F
Fever (pediatric rectal): > 100.4 F (38 C)
*most common method to measure: orally
*most accurate method to measure: rectally
Supine Position - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Pt lies flat facing upward
Blood Pressure - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Normal: <120 / <80
Prehypertension: 120--89
Hypertension Stage I: 140--99
Hypertension Stsge II: >160 / >100
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,TITLE: EMILLYCHARLOTTE 2024/2025 ACADEMIC PERIOD
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Hypertensive Crisis: >180 / >110
Hypotensive: <90 / <60
Respiration - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Normal: 12-20 breaths/min
*deviation may be due to injury or illness
*observe for pale, ashen, cyanoic, or cold skin for pts with reading out of the 12-20
breaths/min range
Systolic - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Pressure in blood vessels when your heart beats
(ventricles contract)
Diastolic - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Pressure in blood vessels when your heart rests between
beats (ventricles relax)
Sphygmomanometer - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Blood pressure cuff
*palpate brachial atery in antecubical region of arm
*center bladder of cuff over brachial artery with the tube away from pt body and bulb
close to pt body
*position cuff 1in. above bend in elbow with guage at eye level to read
*release dial slowly at 2mm/sec
*1st beat = systolic reading
*when the best stops = diastolic reading
Dorsal Recumbent Positon - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Pt lies face up with knees bent (vaginal
US position)
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Fowler's Position - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Pt lies on table with head of table elevated to 90*
Semi-Fowler's Position - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Pt lies on table with head of table elevated
at 45*
Prone position - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Pt lies facedown
Sims Position - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Pt lies on left side with right leg sharply bent and
knees on table (rectal exam position)
Knee-chest Position - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Pt rests on knee and chest with head turned
to one side (baby pose with butt up)
Trendelenburg Position - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Pt is supine with the bottom of the table
elevated at 30*
Topical Administration of Meds - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Applied on skin for local effect (ex.
Lotion)
Transdermal Administration of Meds - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Patch that transfers
medication slowly through the skin
Intramuscular, Intradermal, and Subcutaneous Administration of Medd - Correct
Answer✔️✔️-Must be in sterile, liquid form
Intramuscular (IM) Injections - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Insert the needle at a 90* angle
*aspirate (pull back) before administering to make sure you are not injection into a blood
vessel
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OWNER: EMILLYCHARLOTTE
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FIRST PUBLISHED: SEPTEMBER 2024
NHA Exam Study Guide with Complete
Solutions
Heart rates - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Normal: 60-100 beats/min
Athletes (normal): ~40 beats/min
Tachycardia: > 100 beats/min
Bradycardia: < 60 beats/min
*dizziness and shortness of breath may indicate tachy and bradycardia
*measure for 1min.
Temperature - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Normal: 97.6-99.6 F (36.4-37.6 C)
Fever (oral): >100 F (37.8 C)
Fever (rectal/ear): >101 F
Fever (pediatric rectal): > 100.4 F (38 C)
*most common method to measure: orally
*most accurate method to measure: rectally
Supine Position - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Pt lies flat facing upward
Blood Pressure - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Normal: <120 / <80
Prehypertension: 120--89
Hypertension Stage I: 140--99
Hypertension Stsge II: >160 / >100
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,TITLE: EMILLYCHARLOTTE 2024/2025 ACADEMIC PERIOD
OWNER: EMILLYCHARLOTTE
COPYRIGHT STATEMENT: ©2024 EMILLYCHARLOTTE. ALL RIGHTS
RESERVED
FIRST PUBLISHED: SEPTEMBER 2024
Hypertensive Crisis: >180 / >110
Hypotensive: <90 / <60
Respiration - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Normal: 12-20 breaths/min
*deviation may be due to injury or illness
*observe for pale, ashen, cyanoic, or cold skin for pts with reading out of the 12-20
breaths/min range
Systolic - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Pressure in blood vessels when your heart beats
(ventricles contract)
Diastolic - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Pressure in blood vessels when your heart rests between
beats (ventricles relax)
Sphygmomanometer - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Blood pressure cuff
*palpate brachial atery in antecubical region of arm
*center bladder of cuff over brachial artery with the tube away from pt body and bulb
close to pt body
*position cuff 1in. above bend in elbow with guage at eye level to read
*release dial slowly at 2mm/sec
*1st beat = systolic reading
*when the best stops = diastolic reading
Dorsal Recumbent Positon - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Pt lies face up with knees bent (vaginal
US position)
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, TITLE: EMILLYCHARLOTTE 2024/2025 ACADEMIC PERIOD
OWNER: EMILLYCHARLOTTE
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RESERVED
FIRST PUBLISHED: SEPTEMBER 2024
Fowler's Position - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Pt lies on table with head of table elevated to 90*
Semi-Fowler's Position - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Pt lies on table with head of table elevated
at 45*
Prone position - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Pt lies facedown
Sims Position - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Pt lies on left side with right leg sharply bent and
knees on table (rectal exam position)
Knee-chest Position - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Pt rests on knee and chest with head turned
to one side (baby pose with butt up)
Trendelenburg Position - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Pt is supine with the bottom of the table
elevated at 30*
Topical Administration of Meds - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Applied on skin for local effect (ex.
Lotion)
Transdermal Administration of Meds - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Patch that transfers
medication slowly through the skin
Intramuscular, Intradermal, and Subcutaneous Administration of Medd - Correct
Answer✔️✔️-Must be in sterile, liquid form
Intramuscular (IM) Injections - Correct Answer✔️✔️-Insert the needle at a 90* angle
*aspirate (pull back) before administering to make sure you are not injection into a blood
vessel
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