NUR 101 Quiz 2
- Which structures are examined with an ophthalmoscope?
Answer Internal structures of the eye
- When you assess for vibration of the chest wall, which parts of your hand will you use?
Answer Base of the fingers
- Patient who presents with an upper respiratory infection. What is the single most important
action you can take as the examiner to decrease the spread of this infection?
Answer Wash your hands
- Which considerations should guide your approach to physical assessment of an older adult?
Answer -The examination should be paced relative to the patient's individual needs and abilities
-Unless contraindicated, physical touch should be used to offset the diminishing loss of vision and hearing -Awareness that loss is inevitable and adaptation to loss affects health status.
- Hyperresonance
Answer Is a normal finding over a child's lung, but is an abnormal finding over the lungs in the adult, indicating an increased amount of air, as occurs with emphysema.
- Standard Precautions are designed to minimize the transmission of microorganisms from
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which sources?
Answer Mucous membranes, Blood, Broken skin, Body fluids, and Nasal secretions
- You should choose to cleanse your hands with soap and water rather than an alcohol-based
hand rub after caring for a patient with which type of infection?
Answer Is called for when hands are visibly dirty and when patients are infected with spore-forming organisms
- Clostridium difficile
Answer spore forming bacterium which can be part of the normal intestinal flora
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Answer tuberculosis
- At which stage in life is the standard head-to-toe physical examination sequence
implemented?
Answer School-aged children
- Which type of percussion note would you hear over an abdominal tumor?-
Answer Flat
- Dull percussion sounds are expected to be found
Answer over the liver
- Flat percussion sounds are expected to be found
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over muscles
- Hyperresonant Percussion
Answer Very loud, low, "boom like" (air/emphysema)
- tympany from percussion is expected to be found
Answer over a gastric bubble
- In which settings is a person at greatest risk for acquiring a nosocomial infection?
Answer Hospital and long-term care facility
- Which factor is best assessed using the fingertips?
Answer Skin texture.
- During your examination, you should use the dorsa of your hand to assess which factor?
Answer Temperature
- When performing a physical examination, you should use your metacarpophalangeal
joints to assess which parameter?
Answer Vibration
- For what are you checking when you use light palpation?
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Answer Location of surface characteristics