NURS 602 HEALTH ASSESSMENT
(Cardiopulmonary) FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS A+ GRADED.
How do you assess a heave?
✔✔Use your palm and/or hold your finger pads flat or obliquely against
the chest.
How do you asses for a thrill?
✔✔Press the ball of your hand (the padded area of your palm near the
wrist) firmly on the chest to check for a buzzing or vibratory sensation
caused by underlying turbulent flow.
If you feel a thrill what is the next step in your assessment?
✔✔Auscultate the same area for murmurs
The presence of a thrill changes the grading of the murmur. True or False?
✔✔True
✔✔Palpate the arterial pulses in distal extremities, comparing
characteristics bilaterally for rate, rhythm, contour, amplitude
What arteries will you be assessing?
✔✔-Carotid
-Brachial
-Radial
-Femoral
-Popliteal
, -Dorsalis pedis
-Posterior tibial
At what angle would you lay the patient to assess the jugular venous
pulse?
✔✔45-degree angle
What are thrills indicative of?
✔✔Stenosis
Possible chief complaints and HPI associated with cardiac assessment?
✔✔-Chest pain
-Palpitations
-LOC
-Fatigue
-Edema
-SOB
-Syncope
What are you observing for in a patient's past medical hx?
✔✔-CAD and/or CHF
-Cardiovascular surgery
-CHD
-Valve disease
-Rhythm disorder
-Medications hx
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