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NUR2200 - FINAL EXAM LATEST UPDATE 2025|QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS|A+ RATED
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What makes up a patient health history?
why patient is seeking healthcare What is the history of present illness? info regarding when symptoms started, duration, treatments so far, summarize concerns What is the past medical history? ask about: significant childhood and adult illnesses, surgical history, immunizations, injuries, current medications, known allergies, past procedures, screening, dental and vision, and blood transfusions What is family history? clients risk of disease, health and diseases of family members, cause and ages of death What is personal and social history? education level, occupation, safe, daily habits, sexual history, social determinants of health
Where can you take temperature? oral cavity, axilla, tympanic membrane, temporal artery, rectum What is the normal temperature range? 97.8-99 F (36.5-37.2 C) What are common locations to feel a pulse? carotid artery, radial artery, apex of the heart, femoral artery What is a normal heart rate range? 60-100 bpm What are the amplitude grades of pulse? 0 - absent 1+ - weak and thready 2+ normal 3+ - full and bounding
What is a normal respiration rate? 12-20 breaths per minute What is systolic blood pressure? force on arteries during systole What is systole? heart contracting What is the diastolic blood pressure? force on arteries during diastole What is diastole? heart relaxing
indicates how much oxygen is available for the body What is a normal oxygen saturation?
95% What is the body's response to an increase in temperature? sweating, vasodilation What is the body's response to a decrease in temperature? vasoconstriction, shivering What is radiation (in regards to temperature)?
What is convection?
What is a hypertensive crisis? systolic: 180+ diastolic: 120+ What is hypotension? systolic: < diastolic: < What do you do when your patient has hypertension? antihypertensive medication What do you do when your patient has hypotension?
100 bpm; pulse faster than normal, decreased cardiac output What is bradycardia? < 60 bpm; heart rate too slow, blood not pumped out fast enough; decreased cardiac output What is an arrhythmia? irregular pulse, caused by electrolyte imbalances or heart disease affects cardiac output
low pitched, clear --> air-filled structures, lungs What is a hyper-resonanat sound? lower in pitch, more booming What is tympany? high-pitched, drum-like --> air filled organs --> stomach What are dull sounds? high pitched thuds --> solid organs --> liver What are flat sounds? high-pitched, shorter --> bone, tumor What is auscultation? use stethoscope to listen to sounds produced by body
What is the diaphragm on the stethoscope used for? high pitched sounds --> breath or bowel sounds What is the bell of the stethoscope used for? soft, low pitched sounds --> extra heart sounds or murmurs What is a stethoscope? used to listen to sounds made by the patients body; heart, lung, bowel What is an otoscope? shines light into ear to visualize ear canal and eardrum How do you straighten the ear canal?
What is sanitization? cleaning process and techniques that physically remove microorganisms
cataracts --> breakdown and clumping of proteins within the lens What is miosis and what causes miosis? abnormally small or constricted pupils of the eyes; taking opiods What is anisocoria? condition where one pupil is larger than the other --> related to several diseases What is nystagmus? repetitive jerky eye movement What is the cover-uncover test? covered eye stays on fixed point, gaze of uncovered eye remains steady What is strabismus?
weakened extraocular muscles; lazy eye What causes firm or resistant palpation of the eye? glaucoma or tumor What is the snellen/sloan chart? test function of CN 2 by assessing visual activity, distance client is from chart/ distance at which a normal eye can read line on chart --> increased denominator = worse vision What is considered legally blind? 20/ What is a near vision assessment? rosenbaum/jaeger pocket screening card In what order do you assess the ear?