Font size
WorksheetsStudy Guide Multiple-Choice Questions
Total questions: 66
Worksheet time: 34mins
What is SBAR used for?
Lung volume measurement
Communication between healthcare workers
Heart rate assessment
Blood pressure reporting
What does the S stand for in SBAR
Statement
Situation
Saftey
Scary
What does the Borg scale measure?
How a patient feels on a 1-0 scale for pain
How a patient feels on a 0–10 scale for pain
How a patient feels on a 0–10 scale for anything
How a patient feels on a 1–10 scale for anything
What does NBRC stand for?
National Board for Respiratory Care
National Breathing Regulation Council
Nursing Board of Respiratory Certification
National Body of Respiratory Clinicians
NBRC purpose
Administer exams (measurement of compentance)
Saftey (for patients)
Pass Laws
Administer licensisure for states
What is AARC’s main role?
Administer Exams
Influences, promotes, and advocates for RT profession
Measures vital signs
Make laws for Rts
Symptoms are:
Objective
Measurable
Subjective
Always visible
Signs are:
Subjective
What the patient feels
Objective
Emotional changes
Hyperinflation means:
Too little air in lungs
Fluid in alveoli
Too much air trapped in lungs
Airway collapse
While admitting a 55-year-old asthma patient you document the following:
“The patient states, ‘I can hear myself wheezing and my chest feels tight.’”
Subjective(Symptom)
Objective(Sign)
Subjective(Sign)
Objective(Symptom)
You inspect the incision and observe a 4-cm area of redness and swelling along the suture line.
Is this piece of data
Subjective(Sign)
Subjective(Symptom)
Objective(Sign)
Objective(Symptom)
Air trapping is common in:
Pneumonia
COPD
Asthma only
Heart failure
Severe COPD appearance:
Flat chest
Barrel chest / Hoover sign
Funnel chest
Scoliosis
Hyperinflation percussion sound:
Dull
Flat
High resonance
No sound
Hyperinflation breath sounds:
Absent
Diminished
Crackling
Loud
Hyperinflation heart sounds:
Increase
Become louder
Decrease
Become irregular only
Not a vital sign:
BP
HR
H&H
RR
Temp
TB PPE requires:
Eye protection
N95
Sterile goves
Gown
Inhibits bacterial growth
Sterilazation
Disinfecting
Sporicidal
Primary source of infection
Humans
Equipment
Time
Sterilizing:
Cleans skin
Kills all microbial life
Removes dirt only
Stops growth only
HIPAA protects:
Food safety
Medical equipment
Patient confidentiality
Ventilator settings
What is the precaustion for TB
Airborne
Droplet
Contact
A Patient go to a baseball game and realize they arent feeling well what type of sickness could this be described as
Onset
Community onset
Nosocmial
rommate sickness
A hospitilized patient was adminstered into the hospital for a shortness of breath after taking antibiotics for a couple of days the physcian realize that patient has C-diff what type of sickness is this : Choose the BEST answer
Doctor infection
Community onset
Nosocomial
Patient sickness
Contact precaution for Influenza
Airbone
Contact
Droplet
A 78-year-old woman is admitted directly from the ED with sudden-onset “can’t catch my breath.” While you perform the quick assessment you note:
Respiratory rate 32, laboured, with coughing
Audible bilateral crackles to mid-chest
JVP 6 cm above sternal angle while sitting at 45°
What are these signs of
Body fluid retention
Right heart failure
Low HR
Heart shrinking
Sites to measure tempature: Select all that apply
Mouth
Ear
Axilla
Rectum
A 58-year-old man with a history of chronic bronchitis and recurrent pulmonary infections presents to the ED reporting, “I keep coughing up bright-red blood.”Which of the following terms best describes this patient’s primary respiratory symptom?
Hemoptysis
Hematemesis
Epistaxis
Petechiae
RHF caused by:
Pulmonary issues
Kidney failure
Brain injury
Liver dysfunction
A 63-year-old man with a 45-pack-year smoking history is admitted for COPD exacerbation. On physical exam you note decreased tactile fremitus, a dull percussion note, and diminished breath sounds over the right lower lung field; the trachea is midline. Bedside spirometry shows no bronchodilator response. Which of the following is the MOST likely explanation for these localized findings?
Pneumothorax
Consolidation
Pleural effusion
Emphysema
Pleural effusion :
Fluid outside the lungs
Fluid inside the lungs
Air outside the lungs
Air Inside the lungs
Position to confirm pleural effusion:
Supine
Sitting upright
Lateral decubitus
Prone
Weight monitoring checks:
Skin color
Input & Output
BP only
Clothing fit
Tachypnea:
Slow breathing
Fast breathing
Irregular
None
Hyperventilation:
Shallow
Slow
Breathing more than needed
Obstructed airway
Wheezing indicates:
Open airway
Lower airway narrowing
Fluid in pleura
Collapse
A 4-year-old boy is brought to the ED by his mother who states he suddenly began “gasping and barking” after playing with a handful of small toy parts. On exam he is sitting upright, drooling, and appears anxious. His respiratory rate is 38/min. You auscultate a loud, high-pitched, crowing noise that is heard predominantly over the neck and is present during inspiration only. Oxygen saturation is 94% on room air. Which of the following breath sounds is the MOST critical finding indicating upper-airway obstruction?
Wheezes
Crackles
Stridor
Pleural friction rub
Stridor indicates:
Lower airway narrowing
Upper airway obstruction
Fluid in alveoli
Normal airflow
Radial pulse used because:
Closest to heart
Deep
Easy to access, close to surface
Used only in CPR
Hypoxemia causes:
Irregular rhythms
High BP only
Sweating
Red skin
GCS < 8:
Discharge
Mild impairment
Intubate
Fully awake
Small pneumo on expiratory film:
Whiter
Darker
Blurry
White-out
Mediastinum shifts away from:
Atelectasis
Pleural effusion
Normal lungs
No air movement
Mediastinum shifts toward:
Pneumonia
Atelectasis
Pleural effusion
Pneumothorax
Radiolucent:
Dark
White
Gray
Clear
Radiopaque:
Black
White
Clear
Invisible
Teach-back:
Patient watches only
Patient teaches info back
Doctor repeats orders
Staff repeat instructions
Social space:
0–18 in
2–4 ft
4 to 12 ft
Touching distance
Polycythemia caused by:
Low sugar
Smoking
Asthma
HF
Most common COPD cause:
Pollution
Smoking
Obesity
Pneumonia
Digital clubbing linked to:
COPD
GERD
MI
Liver disease
Nosocomial infection from:
School
Home
Hospital
Outdoors
Brain death testing requires:
One physician
Two physicians
A nurse
Family
Tests used for brain death:
CT
MRI
Apnea test
All of the above
Apnea test checks:
Sweating
Blinking
Breathing when CO2 rises
HR change
When performing an allen test whithin what time frame you would expect circulation to comeback
5s
3s
20s
7s
Which of the following formulas is the correct method for calculating pack-years of cigarette smoking?
Packs smoked per day ÷ Years smoked
Cigarettes smoked per day × Years smoked
Packs smoked per day × Years smoked
Cigarettes smoked per day ÷ 10
According to current clinical guidelines, gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD) is defined as mild acid reflux that occurs at least:
Once a month
Twice a month
Twice a week
Daily
Drooping of eyelids
Ptosis
Dipolia
Double Vision
Diplopia
Ptosis
In a event where a patient has Vesicular breath loud of the trachea what is the Best for of action?
Administer Oxygen
Nothing its normal
Call Physician
Report to medical director
Which adult BP reading is inside the normal range?
A. 88/48 mm Hg
B. 118/78 mm Hg
C. 148/96 mm Hg
D. 158/102 mm Hg
Which respiratory rate is normal for a healthy adult?
22/min
12/min
8/min
30/min
Which oral temperature is within normal limits?
95.0 °F (35.0 °C)
97.7 °F (36.5 °C)
99.9 °F (37.7 °C)
101.3 °F (38.5 °C)
Bands
grouop of Immature Neutrophills
Group of magrophages
group of Immature basophills
group of immature lymphocytes
