NSG-316 Exam 3 Expected Questions and Verified Answers
(2026-2027)
Question 1.
when you inspect the chest of an aging adult, what do you look for?
Correct Answer: the shape and configuration
Question 2.
When someone complains of SOB when lay- ing down, what do you ask them?
Correct Answer: how many pillows do they sleep on
Question 3.
When someone has chronic COPD, what would you expect their chest to look like?
Correct Answer: Barrel chested
Question 4.
What are differences between the right and left lungs?
Correct Answer: Left lung = 2 lobes, is narrower than the right because heart
bulges to the left right lung = 3 lobes, but shorter than
Question 5.
In a normal healthy adult, the lung assessment finding would be
Correct Answer: vesicular breath sounds and you will hear them over the
peripheral fields of the lungs
Question 6.
What is the bell of the stethoscope designed to hear?
Correct Answer: lower pitched sounds
Question 7.
What sound can be generated from the larynx?
Correct Answer: vocal sounds
Question 8.
When doing assessment of breathe sounds, what pattern do you listen in?
Correct Answer: you go from side to side
, Question 9.
When assess adults, how do you hold the diaphragm of the stethoscope?
Correct Answer: hold the diaphragm firmly to the chest, especially on males
because of hair
Question 10.
decreased or absent breath sounds can be caused by what?
Correct Answer: any bronchial obstruction (ex. pneumonia)
Question 11.
Any obstruction (Partial, or if a lung collapsed) can cause what?
Correct Answer: unequal breaths
Question 12.
What are adventitious sounds?
Correct Answer: abnormal sounds that can be heard in the lungs when you
auscultate
Question 13.
With aging adults, what happens to the respiratory system?
Correct Answer: Costal cartilages become calcified = less mobile thorax lungs
have a more rigid structure = lungs are harder to inflate have decreased # of
alveoli = less surface area lung bases are less ventilated = because of the result
of closing off a # of airways
Question 14.
what are the breathe sounds which are moderately pitched and heard over bronchi
Correct Answer: Bronchovesicular Bronchial Vesicular
Question 15.
What are ronchii?
Correct Answer: low-pitched wheezing sounds
(2026-2027)
Question 1.
when you inspect the chest of an aging adult, what do you look for?
Correct Answer: the shape and configuration
Question 2.
When someone complains of SOB when lay- ing down, what do you ask them?
Correct Answer: how many pillows do they sleep on
Question 3.
When someone has chronic COPD, what would you expect their chest to look like?
Correct Answer: Barrel chested
Question 4.
What are differences between the right and left lungs?
Correct Answer: Left lung = 2 lobes, is narrower than the right because heart
bulges to the left right lung = 3 lobes, but shorter than
Question 5.
In a normal healthy adult, the lung assessment finding would be
Correct Answer: vesicular breath sounds and you will hear them over the
peripheral fields of the lungs
Question 6.
What is the bell of the stethoscope designed to hear?
Correct Answer: lower pitched sounds
Question 7.
What sound can be generated from the larynx?
Correct Answer: vocal sounds
Question 8.
When doing assessment of breathe sounds, what pattern do you listen in?
Correct Answer: you go from side to side
, Question 9.
When assess adults, how do you hold the diaphragm of the stethoscope?
Correct Answer: hold the diaphragm firmly to the chest, especially on males
because of hair
Question 10.
decreased or absent breath sounds can be caused by what?
Correct Answer: any bronchial obstruction (ex. pneumonia)
Question 11.
Any obstruction (Partial, or if a lung collapsed) can cause what?
Correct Answer: unequal breaths
Question 12.
What are adventitious sounds?
Correct Answer: abnormal sounds that can be heard in the lungs when you
auscultate
Question 13.
With aging adults, what happens to the respiratory system?
Correct Answer: Costal cartilages become calcified = less mobile thorax lungs
have a more rigid structure = lungs are harder to inflate have decreased # of
alveoli = less surface area lung bases are less ventilated = because of the result
of closing off a # of airways
Question 14.
what are the breathe sounds which are moderately pitched and heard over bronchi
Correct Answer: Bronchovesicular Bronchial Vesicular
Question 15.
What are ronchii?
Correct Answer: low-pitched wheezing sounds
