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health assessment final - jarvis test bankA physician tells the nurse that a patients vertebra prominens is tender and asks the nurse to
reevaluate the area in 1 hour. The area of the body the nurse will assess is:
a. Just above the diaphragm.
b. Just lateral to the knee cap.
c. At the level of the C7 vertebra.
d. At the level of the T11 vertebra. - ANSC
A mother brings her 2-month-old daughter in for an examination and says, My daughter
rolled over against the wall, and now I have noticed that she has this spot that is soft on the
top of her head. Is something terribly wrong? The nurses best response would be:
a. Perhaps that could be a result of your dietary intake during pregnancy.
b. Your baby may have craniosynostosis, a disease of the sutures of the brain.
c. That soft spot may be an indication of cretinism or congenital hypothyroidism.
d. That soft spot is normal, and actually allows for growth of the brain during the first year of
your babys life - ANSD
The nurse notices that a patients palpebral fissures are not symmetric. On examination, the
nurse may find that damage has occurred to which cranial nerve (CN)?
a. III
b. V
c. VII
d. VIII - ANSC
A patient is unable to differentiate between sharp and dull stimulation to both sides of her
face. The nurse suspects:
a. Bell palsy.
b. Damage to the trigeminal nerve.
c. Frostbite with resultant paresthesia to the cheeks.
,d. Scleroderma. - ANSB
When examining the face of a patient, the nurse is aware that the two pairs of salivary
glands that are accessible to examination are the ___________ and ___________ glands.
a. Occipital; submental
b. Parotid; jugulodigastric
c. Parotid; submandibular
d. Submandibular; occipital - ANSC
A patient comes to the clinic complaining of neck and shoulder pain and is unable to turn her
head. The nurse suspects damage to CN ______ and proceeds with the examination by
_____________.
a. XI; palpating the anterior and posterior triangles
b. XI; asking the patient to shrug her shoulders against resistance
c. XII; percussing the sternomastoid and submandibular neck muscles
d. XII; assessing for a positive Romberg sign - ANSB
When examining a patients CN function, the nurse remembers that the muscles in the neck
that are innervated by CN XI are the:
a. Sternomastoid and trapezius.
b. Spinal accessory and omohyoid.
c. Trapezius and sternomandibular.
d. Sternomandibular and spinal accessory. - ANSA
A patients laboratory data reveal an elevated thyroxine (T4) level. The nurse would proceed
with an examination of the _____ gland.
a. Thyroid
b. Parotid
c. Adrenal
d. Parathyroid - ANSA
, A patient says that she has recently noticed a lump in the front of her neck below her Adams
apple that seems to be getting bigger. During the assessment, the finding that leads the
nurse to suspect that this may not be a cancerous thyroid nodule is that the lump (nodule):
a. Is tender.
b. Is mobile and not hard.
c. Disappears when the patient smiles.
d. Is hard and fixed to the surrounding structures. - ANSB
The nurse notices that a patients submental lymph nodes are enlarged. In an effort to
identify the cause of the node enlargement, the nurse would assess the patients:
a. Infraclavicular area.
b. Supraclavicular area.
c. Area distal to the enlarged node.
d. Area proximal to the enlarged node. - ANSD
The nurse is aware that the four areas in the body where lymph nodes are accessible are
the:
a. Head, breasts, groin, and abdomen.
b. Arms, breasts, inguinal area, and legs.
c. Head and neck, arms, breasts, and axillae.
d. Head and neck, arms, inguinal area, and axillae. - ANSD
A mother brings her newborn in for an assessment and asks, Is there something wrong with
my baby? His head seems so big. Which statement is true regarding the relative proportions
of the head and trunk of the newborn?
a. At birth, the head is one fifth the total length.
b. Head circumference should be greater than chest circumference at birth.
c. The head size reaches 90% of its final size when the child is 3 years old.
d. When the anterior fontanel closes at 2 months, the head will be more proportioned to the
body. - ANSB
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