NR 302 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2022
Where is the aortic heard sound heard?
Right side of 2nd intercostal space
Where is the pulmonic heart sound heard?
Left side of the 2nd intercostal space
What heart sound can be
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NR 302 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2022
Where is the aortic heard sound heard?
Right side of 2nd intercostal space
Where is the pulmonic heart sound heard?
Left side of the 2nd intercostal space
What heart sound can be heard in the 5th intercostal space in the midclavicular area?
Mitral
What heart sound can be found in the 4th intercostal space?
Tricuspid
What heart sound can be found in the 3rd intercostal space?
Erb's point
A change in diet, exercise and smoking are what _______ risk factors for heart disease.
Modifiable
The heart condition that the S3 sound signifies what?
Ventricular gallop
What are the two causes for ventricular gallop (s3)?
heart failure and volume overload
What kind of diet promotes wound healing?
High protein diet
What is the term for the added lung sounds that are not normally heard in the lungs?
Adventitious sounds
This adventitious sound is characterized as discontinuous popping that is heard over inspiration?
Crackles (rales)
This adventitious sound is characterized as musical sounds that are heard mainly over expirations?
Wheezes (rhonci)
A nurse is listening to her patients breath sounds, she hears a harsh, loud high pitched sound by her patients trachea and larynx area. What kind of breath sound is she hearing?
Bronchial (tracheal)
The broncho vesicular breath sound is characterized as a moderate pitch and amplitude, where is it heard?
The upper sternum in 1st and 2nd intercostal spaces
The vesicular breath sound is heard over the peripheral lung fields; how would you characterize the noise, pitch and amplitude?
Rustling noises, low pitched, soft amplitude
What is the name of the short, popping cracking noises that are heard very seldom in a few breaths at a time?
ateletactic crackles
When are the crackles heard in atelectatic crackles?
alveoli are expanded by deep breaths
What is the term for the collapsed shrunken section of alveoli, otherwise known as a collapsed lung?
Atelectasis
What are the three causes of atelectasis (collapsed lung)?
Airway obstruction
Compression in the lung
Lack of surfactant
What do the breath sounds sound like during atelectasis? And if the bronchus is present?
Deceased vesicular or absent, fine crackles if bronchus is present
How would you characterize the Cheyne Stokes breathing pattern?
Deep and shallow with periods of apnea
This breathing pattern is a normal response to fear, fever or exercise. It causes rapid, shallow breathing and can increase your respiratory rate to more than 24 per minute. What kind of breathing pattern is this?
Tachypnea
Which heart sound coincides with the carotid artery pulse?
S1 (first heart sound)
How would you document a normal carotid pulse?
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