NURSING 325 Fundamentals Final Review
Vital Signs
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. A nurse notes a patient has abnormal vital signs. What action by the nurse is best?
c. Compare with prior readings.
2. A patient returned from a p
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NURSING 325 Fundamentals Final Review
Vital Signs
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. A nurse notes a patient has abnormal vital signs. What action by the nurse is best?
c. Compare with prior readings.
2. A patient returned from a procedure and has vital sign measurements ordered every hour. The
patient’s blood pressure has dropped from 132/82 mm Hg an hour ago to 90/66 mm Hg. What
action by the nurse is most appropriate?
d. Plan to take the vital signs more often.
3. A nurse is told in the hand-off report that a patient is afebrile. What assessment finding correlates
with this statement?
b. Temperature 98.4° F (36.8° C)
4. A nurse is caring for a patient who has a high temperature. The nurse plans to help the patient
regain a normal temperature through conduction. What technique does the nurse use?
b. Putting ice packs in the patient’s axillae
5. A nurse is going to take a patient’s oral temperature. The patient has been drinking coffee. What
action by the nurse is best?
b. Return in 30 minutes to take the patient’s temperature.
6. A nurse observes a student taking an adult patient’s tympanic temperature. What action by the
student requires the nurse to intervene?
b. Student pulls the pinna of the patient’s ear down and back
7. A nurse assesses a patient’s radial pulse rate to be 110 beats/min and regular. What action by the
nurse is best?
a. Assess the patient for causes of tachycardia.
8. The student nurse is assessing a patient’s pulses. What action by the student requires the nurse to
intervene?
b. Assessing the doralis pedis pulse by palpating behind the patient’s knee
9. The nurse assesses a patient’s pulse and finds it hard to obliterate with palpation. What action by
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