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NUR 134 VITAL SIGNS EXAM 1 STUDY MATERIALS
QUESTION AND ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
**1. What is the most effective measure to reduce healthcare-associated infections?**
- A) Hand hygiene
- B) Using antibiotics
- C) Sterilizing equipment
- D) Wearing gloves
**Answer:** A) Hand hygiene
**2. ________ _______ is essential for infection control.**
- A) Hand washing
- B) Hand hygiene
- C) Disinfection
- D) Sterilization
**Answer:** B) Hand hygiene
**3. What includes temperature, pulse, respirations, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, and pain?**
- A) Medical history
- B) Vital signs
- C) Diagnostic tests
- D) Patient assessment
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**Answer:** B) Vital signs
**4. Vital signs should be measured anytime there is a change in patient _________, loss of
__________, before/after surgical/invasive procedures, before/after ________ that may increase risk,
before administering meds that affect _____________/__________ functioning.**
- A) condition, consciousness, activity, cardiovascular/respiratory
- B) weight, appetite, activity, sensory/motor
- C) mood, memory, stress, cognitive/behavioral
- D) mobility, sleep, medication, emotional/physical
**Answer:** A) condition, consciousness, activity, cardiovascular/respiratory
**5. What describes the balance between heat produced and heat lost?**
- A) Pulse
- B) Temperature
- C) Blood pressure
- D) Respirations
**Answer:** B) Temperature
**6. What is the normal temperature range?**
- A) 96.0-98.5
- B) 97.0-99.5
- C) 98.0-100.4
- D) 99.0-100.5
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**Answer:** B) 97.0-99.5
**7. Which locations measure core temperature?**
- A) Oral, axillary, skin surfaces
- B) Rectal, tympanic, temporal
- C) Axillary, oral, skin surfaces
- D) Oral, tympanic, axillary
**Answer:** B) Rectal, tympanic, temporal
**8. Which locations measure surface temperature?**
- A) Rectal, tympanic, temporal
- B) Oral, axillary, skin surfaces
- C) Oral, rectal, temporal
- D) Axillary, tympanic, rectal
**Answer:** B) Oral, axillary, skin surfaces
**9. What is the normal oral/temporal artery temperature?**
- A) 97.7
- B) 98.6
- C) 99.5
- D) 100.0
NUR 134 VITAL SIGNS EXAM 1 STUDY MATERIALS
QUESTION AND ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
**1. What is the most effective measure to reduce healthcare-associated infections?**
- A) Hand hygiene
- B) Using antibiotics
- C) Sterilizing equipment
- D) Wearing gloves
**Answer:** A) Hand hygiene
**2. ________ _______ is essential for infection control.**
- A) Hand washing
- B) Hand hygiene
- C) Disinfection
- D) Sterilization
**Answer:** B) Hand hygiene
**3. What includes temperature, pulse, respirations, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, and pain?**
- A) Medical history
- B) Vital signs
- C) Diagnostic tests
- D) Patient assessment
,ESTUDY
**Answer:** B) Vital signs
**4. Vital signs should be measured anytime there is a change in patient _________, loss of
__________, before/after surgical/invasive procedures, before/after ________ that may increase risk,
before administering meds that affect _____________/__________ functioning.**
- A) condition, consciousness, activity, cardiovascular/respiratory
- B) weight, appetite, activity, sensory/motor
- C) mood, memory, stress, cognitive/behavioral
- D) mobility, sleep, medication, emotional/physical
**Answer:** A) condition, consciousness, activity, cardiovascular/respiratory
**5. What describes the balance between heat produced and heat lost?**
- A) Pulse
- B) Temperature
- C) Blood pressure
- D) Respirations
**Answer:** B) Temperature
**6. What is the normal temperature range?**
- A) 96.0-98.5
- B) 97.0-99.5
- C) 98.0-100.4
- D) 99.0-100.5
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**Answer:** B) 97.0-99.5
**7. Which locations measure core temperature?**
- A) Oral, axillary, skin surfaces
- B) Rectal, tympanic, temporal
- C) Axillary, oral, skin surfaces
- D) Oral, tympanic, axillary
**Answer:** B) Rectal, tympanic, temporal
**8. Which locations measure surface temperature?**
- A) Rectal, tympanic, temporal
- B) Oral, axillary, skin surfaces
- C) Oral, rectal, temporal
- D) Axillary, tympanic, rectal
**Answer:** B) Oral, axillary, skin surfaces
**9. What is the normal oral/temporal artery temperature?**
- A) 97.7
- B) 98.6
- C) 99.5
- D) 100.0
