Exam 3: NSG316 / NSG 316 (Latest
Update 2024 / 2025) Health Assessment Exam | Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - GCU
Question:
Orthopnea
Answer:
how many pillows are used when sleeping or laying down in order to be able breathe
Question:
Where can the aortic valve be auscultated?
Answer:
2nd right interspace
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Question:
Where can the pulmonic valve be auscultated?
Answer:
2nd left interspace
Question:
where can the tricuspid valve be auscultated?
Answer:
left 4th intercostal space/lower sternal border
Question:
where can the mitral (bicuspid) valve be auscultated?
Answer:
5th interspace left midclavicular line
Question:
When auscultating breath sounds, you have to listen to both
Answer:
inspiration and expiration which = one breathe
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Question:
Fremitus is a
Answer:
palpable vibration
Question:
Fremitus's are
Answer:
sounds generated from larynx which are transmitted through the lung to the chest wall where you feel them as vibrations
Question:
you palpate for tactile fremitus with the
Answer:
palmar base of fingers or ulnar edge of hand
Question:
when palpating for tactile fremitus, what words will the patient say?
Answer:
"ninety-nine" or "blue moon"
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