Nsg 316 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Exam 1: NSG316 / NSG 316 (Latest Update 2024 / 2025) Health Assessment Exam | Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - GCU Question: What is direct percussion? Answer: striking the hand to make contact with the body wall Question: All of the following are important considerations for creating a safe environment except: a) using the privacy curtain b) having loud noises around c) reducing client anxiety d) assessing and considering emotional status Answer: ...

Exam 3: NSG316 / NSG 316 (Latest Update 2024 / 2025) Health Assessment Exam | Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - GCU Question: is decreased lung elasticity a normal change? Answer: yes, with age, the elasticity of lung tissue decreases, leading to reduced lung compliance and decreased ability to fully expand the lungs Question: is reduction in respiratory muscle strength a normal change with age? Answer: yes muscles involved in breathing, such as the dia...

Exam 3: NSG316 / NSG 316 (Latest Update 2024 / 2025) Health Assessment Exam | Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - GCU Question: Orthopnea Answer: how many pillows are used when sleeping or laying down in order to be able breathe Question: Where can the aortic valve be auscultated? Answer: 2nd right interspace Question: Where can the pulmonic valve be auscultated? Answer: 2nd left interspace Question: where can the tricuspid valve be auscu...

Exam 2: NSG316 / NSG 316 (Latest Update 2024 / 2025) Health Assessment Exam | Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - GCU Question: Flaccidity Answer: Decreased muscle tone or hypotonia; muscle feels limp, soft, and flabby; muscle is weak and easily fatigued; limb feels like a rag doll. Lower motor neuron injury anywhere from the anterior horn cell in the spinal cord to the peripheral nerve (peripheral neuritis, poliomy Question: Spasticity Answer: Increas...

Exam 2: NSG 316/ NSG316 (Latest 2024/ 2025 Update) Health Assessment Guide | Qs and As | 100% Correct| Grade A (Verified Answers)- GCU Q: abnormal postures Answer: decorticate rigidity decerebrate rigidity flaccid quadriplegia opisthotonos Q: decorticate rigidity Answer: flexion of arms, wrist, fingers. extension of legs, internal rotation of knees Q: decerebrate rigidity Answer: palms pronated, plantar flexion Q: flaccid quadriplegia Answer: c...

Exam 3: NSG 316/ NSG316 (New 2024/ 2025 Update) Health Assessment | Guide with Qs and As | 100% Correct| Grade A (Verified Answers)- GCU

Exam 3: NSG316 / NSG 316 (Latest Update 2024 / 2025) Health Assessment Exam | Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - GCU Question: too much fluid around lung layers caused by heart failure, cancer, and pulmonary embolism Answer: pleural effusion Question: bacterial infection causes fluid buildup in lungs Answer: pneumonia Question: over 24 breaths per minute Answer: tachypnea Question: what does EIB stand for? Answer: exercised induced bro...

Exam 3: NSG316 / NSG 316 (Latest Update 2024 / 2025) Health Assessment Exam | Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - GCU Question: What is diastole? Answer: ventricles relax and fill with blood; 2/3 of cardiac cycle Question: What is systole? Answer: heart's contraction, blood pumped from ventricles fills pulmonary and systemic arteries; 1/3 of cardiac cycle Question: Atrial systole occurs? Answer: during ventricular diastole Question: What...

Exam 2: NSG316 / NSG 316 (Latest Update 2024 / 2025) Health Assessment Exam | Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - GCU Question: What is Nystagmus? Answer: jerking around iris CN III, IV, VI is ****ed Question: What stimulates blinking (corneal reflex)? Answer: CN V trigeminal and CN VII facial Question: Two cerebral function tests? Answer: balance test Romberg test Question: two coordination and skilled movement tests? Answer: finger ...

Exam 1: NSG 316/ NSG316 (New 2024/ 2025 Update) Health Assessment | Guide with Qs and As | 100% Correct| Grade A (Verified Answers)- GCU