TTC NUR 102 Exam Questions With Complete Solutions
1. True: answer True or False: We need to take vitals on ALL our patients?
2. temperature inside the body: answer What is core temperature?
3. Age
Environment
Time of day
Exercise
Stress
Hormones: answer What are some factors that affect body temperature?
4. smoking
ice water
coffee
gum chewing: answer What can alter the patient's temperature?
5. oral
,rectal
axillary
tympanic
temporal: answer How can temperature be taken?
6. Axillary: answer What is the lease accurate site to take temperature?
7. Tympanic and Temporal: answer What is the most accurate site to take
temperature?(2)
8. 97.6ºF - 99.6ºF oral
36.5ºC - 37.5ºC oral: answer What is the normal body temperature?
9. pyrexia, hyperthermia, or fever: answer what is the term used for when
temperatureexceeds 37.5 ºC?
10. 0.5 higher: answer Rectal temperatures may be ºC (higher or lower?) than oral
11. 0.5 lower: answer Axillary temps may be ºC (higher or lower?) than oral
12. 77ºF or 113ºF: answer Death can occur if core temp is ºF or ºF
13. afebrile: answer State of normal body temperature in a patient is called
14. apnea: answer Absence of respiration; a potentially serious sleep disorder
,in whichbreathing repeatedly stops and starts is called
15. auscultatory gap: answer absence of audible sounds during blood pressure
measure-ment that may cause inaccurate reading is called
16. bradycardia: abnormally slow heart rate (usually less than 60 bpm in adults)
17. bradypnea: abnormally slow respiratory rate (Usually less than 10 breaths per
min in adults)
18. Diastolic blood pressure: pressure in the blood vessels during cardiac ventric-
ular relaxation
19. eupnea: normal respiratory rhythm and depth
20. hypertension: abnormally high blood pressure
, 21. hypotension: abnormally low blood pressure
22. korotkoff sounds: sounds heard during auscultation that indicate the systolic
and diastolic pressure
23. paradoxical blood pressure: significant decrease in systolic blood pressure
with inspiration
24. postural (orthostatic) hypotension: a fall in bp associated with a change in
position from supine to sitting or standing is called ***
25. prehypertension: bp between 120/80 and 139/89 for adults
26. pulse deficit: mathematical difference between apical and radial pulse
27. pulse pressure: mathematical difference between systolic and diastolic bp
28. stridor: a harsh inspiratory sound due to obstruction that may be compared to
crowing
29. stroke volume: amount of blood ejected from each cardiac ventricle with each
heart contraction
30. systolic blood pressure: pressure in the blood vessels during cardiac ventric-
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