| List some of the following that influence pulse rates: | Acute pain, anxiety.
Age.
Exercise.
Fever, heat.
Hemorrhage.
Medications.
Metabolism.
Postural changes.
Pulmonary conditions.
Unrelieved severe paid, chronic pain. |
| What are signs? | Objective data. |
| What are symptoms? | Subjective data. |
| If a patient reports pruritus, what does that indicate? | Itching. |
| A pathological condition of the body, is any disturbance of a structure or function of the body? | Disease. |
| The active or passive removal of fluids from a body cavity. | Drainage. |
| A type of disease that develops slowly and persist over a long period, often for a person's lifetime. | Chronic disease. |
| A structural change in an organ that interferes with its functioning. | Organic disease. |
| An invasion of microorganisms, that produce tissue damage. | Infection. |
| A protective response of the body tissues, by disease-producing organisms. | Inflammation. |
| List the following risk factors for disease: | Genetic and Physiological.
Age.
Environmental.
Lifestyle. |
| Another word for erythema? | Redness. |
| Another word for edema? | Swelling. |
| Another word for purulent drainage? | Pus. |
| An evaluation or appraisal of the patient's condition, | Assessment. |
| Fluid, cells, or other substances that are slowly discharged, from cells or blood vessels through small pores in breaks in the cell membrane. | Exudate |
| List the following origins of disease: | Hereditary.
Congenital.
Inflammatory.
Degrative.
Infectious.
Deficiency.
Metabolic.
Neoplastic.
Environmental. |
| List some of the following positions for examination: | Sitting.
Supine.
Dorsal recumbent.
Lithotomy.
Sims.
Prone.
Lateral recumbent.
Knee-chest. |
| List the following physical assessment techniques: | Inspection.
Auscultation.
Palpation.
Percussion. |
| Measurement of temperature, pulse, respiration, and blood pressure. | Vitals signs. |
| List the following guidelines for obtaining vital signs? | Measuring vital signs correctly.
Understanding and interpreting the values.
Communicating findings appropriately.
Beginning interventions as needed. |
| A pulse represents the actual beating of the heart. | Apical pulse. |
| The act of breathing inhaling and exhaling? | Respiration. |
| Breathing with difficulty. | Dyspnea. |
| When the body temperature is abnormally low. | Hypothermia. |
| To listen for sounds within the body to evaluate the condition of the heath, lungs, pleura, intestines, or other organs or to detect fetal heart sounds. | Auscultate. |
| List the following sites for temperature for measurement. | Oral.
Rectal.
Axilla.
Tympanic.
Temporal artery. |
| If the pulse is faster than 100 beats per minute for an adult. | Tachycardia. |
| If the pulse is slower than 60 beats per minute for an adult. | Bradycardia. |
| Any disturbance or abnormality in a normal rhythmic pattern. | Dysrhythmia. |
| List some of the following that influence pulse rates: | Acute pain, anxiety.
Age.
Exercise.
Fever, heat.
Hemorrhage.
Medications.
Metabolism.
Postural changes.
Pulmonary conditions.
Unrelieved severe paid, chronic pain. |
| What is the normal body temperature? | 98.6*F (37*C). |
| What is the least accurate measuring temperature site? | Axillary. |
| What helps the body maintain a balance between heat lost and heat produced by the body. | Hypothalamus. |
| Body temperature falls into what two categories? | Core temperature.
Surface temperature. |
| The condition of having above-normal body temperature. | Hyperthermia. |
| What is the average pulse rate for an adult? | Between 60 and 100 beats per minute. |
| Feels full and spring like even under moderate pressure. | 4+ Bounding pulse. |
| Easily felt but not palpable when moderate pressure applied. | 3+ Normal pulse. |
| Somewhat stronger than a thready but not palpate when light pressure applied. | 2+ Weak pulse. |
| Difficult to feel; not palpable when slight pressure applied. | 1+ Thready pulse. |
| No pulse felt. | 0 Absent pulse. |
| What pulse is located on the thumb side of the inner wrist. | Radial pulse. |
| A dome-shaped fibrous muscle partition that separates the thoracic and abdominal cavities. | The diaphragm. |
| What part of the body maintains a balance between heat production and heat loss, regulating body temperature? | Hypothalamus. |
| A relative measure sensible heat or cold. | Temperature. |
| What are the following classification of a fever? | Constant.
Intermittent.
Remittent. |
| A type of fever that rise and falls? | Intermittent. |
| What you call a body temperature is abnormally low? | Hypothermia. |
| The scanning of the eardrum membrane. | Tympanic temperature. |
| Listening for the sound within the body to elevate the condition of the heart, lungs, pleura, intestines, or organs or to detect fetal heart tones. | Auscultate. |
| A rhythmic beating or vibrating movement. | Pulse |
| List the following pulse sites: | Temporal pulse.
Carotid pulse.
Apical pulse.
Brachial pulse.
Radial pulse.
Femoral pulse.
Popliteal pulse.
Dorsalis pedis.
Posterior tibial. |
| When a difference is found between the radial and the apical rates. | Pulse deficit. |
| What are the 2 parts of cycle of external respirations? | Inspirations.
Expirations. |
| The act of inhaling air with oxygen into the lungs. | Inspiration. |
| The act of exhaling air with carbon out of the lungs. | Expiration. |
| What do you call a rapid resparatory rate. | Tachypnea. |
| What do you call a slow respiratory rate, below 10 per min. | Bradypnea. |
| An abnormal pattern of respiration characterized by alternating periods of apnea and deep rapid breathing. | Cheyne-Stokes respirations. |
| The difference between the systolic and the diastolic readings. | Pulse pressure. |
| What is it when an elevated pressure is sustained above 140/90 mm Hg. | Hypertention. |
| When a blood pressure is below normal. | Hypotension. |
| A drop of 25 mm Hg un systolic pressure and a drop of 10mm Hg in diastolic pressure when a person moves from lying to sitting position. | Orthostatic hypertension. |
| A device for measuring the arterial blood pressure. | Sphygmomanometer. |
| Sound heard while measuring blood pressure while using a sphygmomanometer or stethoscope. | Korotkoff sound. |
| Most facilities have developed this as the fifth vital sign. | Pain. |
| One of the body's normal defense mechanisiams. | Fever. |
| An abnormal growth of new tissues. | Neoplastic. |
| Yellow tinge of the skin; often indicates obstruction in the flow of bile from the liver. | Jaundice. |
| May be manifested as an organic disease, but careful examination fails to reveal evidence of structural or phycological abnormalities. | Functional disease. |
| A partial or complete disappearance of clinical and subjective characteristics of the disease has occurred. | Remission. |
| What position would your patient be in when assessing the heart. | Lateral recumbent. |
| What position would your patient be in when assessing upper extremities, i.e. head neck lungs. | Sitting. |
| The elasticity of the skin caused by the outward pressure of the cells and interstitial fluid. | Turgor. |
| Normal breaths per minute for an adult. | 12 to 20. |
| A barely perceptible pit 2mm. | 1+ Trace. |
| A deeper pit 4mm, with a fairly normal contour, that rebound in 10 to 15 seconds. | 2+ Mild. |
| A deeper put 6mm; last for 30 seconds to more than a minute. | 3+ Moderate. |
| An even deeper pit 8mm, with severe edema that possibly last as long as 2 to 5 minutes before rebounding. | 4+ Severe. |
