Nutrition
Is a vitamin deficiency that causes rickets & osteomalacia.
What is vitamin D deficiency?
Is the term for difficulty swallowing
What is dysphagia?
White lesions on the mouth. Can rub off.
What is candida? (ask patient what medications they are using - meds can cause thrush)
An adventurous breath sound that is seen with asthmatics.
What is wheezing?
Is a soft, pulsatile, washing, blowing sound heard best with the bell of the stethoscope when ausculating the thyroid gland.
What is a bruit? Indiciates hyperplasia of the thyroid. Occurs with accelerated or turbulent blood flow.
Is the most populat method of obtaining information about dietary intake.
What is 24-hour recall?
Palpable grating sensation.
What is tactle fremitus?
When palpating the thyroid gland what approach is best used?
What is posterior approach? To palpate, move behind the person. Ask the person to sit up straight and then to bend the head slightly forward and to the right. Should not be able to palpate, normally.
Upon percussing the nurse notes a hyperressonance lung sound in an adult patient. What is this indicative of?
What is emphysema or pneumothorax?
Is the difficulty breathing while in a supine position.
What is orthopnea?
What is a normal hemoglobin A1C level?
What is around below 5.7?
Is the term for "funnel chest" or sunken sternum
What is pectus excavatum?
Upper respiratory infection that causes NO cough, enlarged tonsils with exudates, swollen, tender cervical nodes.
What is streptococcal pharyngitis? (know difference between viral vs. bacterial pharyngitis)
Breathe sounds that are high and loud in volume, inspiration is lower than expiration, and is located near the trachea.
What is bronchial breath sounds?
Is what PERRLA stands for.
What is pupils, equal, round, react to light, accommodated?
The nurse is evaluating patients for obesity-related diseases by calculating the waist-to-hip ratios. Which one of these patients would be at increased risk?
A. 29-year-old woman whose waist measures 33 inches and hips measure 36 inches
B. 32-year-old man whose waist measures 34 inches and hips measure 36 inches
C. 38-year-old man whose waist measures 35 inches and hips measure 38 inches
D. 46-year-old woman whose waist measures 30 inches and hips measure 38 inches
What is A?
29-year-old woman whose waist measures 33 inches and hips measure 36 inches
Is the perception of sound without external source, "ringing in the ears" due to sensorineural hearing loss, cerumen impaction, middle ear infection.
What is tinnitus?
Is how you test for accomodation of the eyes.
Ask a person to focus on a distant object (such as the wall) then ask them to change focus on a near object (such as your pen light).
What is sinusitis -> post nasal drip?
Is a headache that is described as being usually on both sides across frontal, temporal, and/or occipital lobe.
What is a tension headachea?
How should the nurse perform a triceps skinfold assessment?
After applying the calipers, the nurse waits 3 seconds before taking a reading. After repeating the procedure three times, an average is recorded.
Is the term for age-related gradual hearing loss.
What is presbycusis?
An abnormality where the trachea is pushed to the unaffected or "healthy" side.
What is aortic aneurysm? Normally the trachea is MIDLINE
As you palpate the posterior side of the chest, this is where you place your hands to assess symmetry of chest expansion.
Placing hands sideways with thumbs over T9 & T10.
Rine test normal findings.
What is AC x2 & BC x1. Hit tuning fork and place on mastoid process. Air conduction (AC) is twice as long as bone conduction (BC). This is a positive rines test.