Nursing 102 Test 1

Front 1

What is the body's built in thermometer

Back 1

Hypothalamus

Front 2

How is heat lost?

Back 2

Radiation, conduction, convection, evaporation

Front 3

What are some factors that affect body temperature?

Back 3

Age, hormones, stress, environment, time of day, exercise

Front 4

How can temperature be taken?

Back 4

Oral, tympanic, axillary, rectally

Front 5

Normal body temperature (oral)

Back 5

97.6-99.6 F or 36.5-37.5 C

Front 6

Normal body temperature (rectal)

Back 6

98.6-100.6 F or 37.5-38.5 C

Front 7

Normal body temperature (axillary)

Back 7

96.6-98.6 F or 35.5-36.5 C

Front 8

What can alter the patients body temperature?

Back 8

Hot/cold drinks, gum chewing

Front 9

Where does the pulse come from?

Back 9

Contraction of the LV ejects blood into the aorta, which expands and contracts, causing a pulse

Front 10

What can affect a patients pulse?

Back 10

ANS (fight or flight), age, pain, anxiety, PNS (rest and digest), fever, caffeine, shock, hemorrhaging, medication

Front 11

Where can a nurse assess a patients pulse?

Back 11

Temporal, carotid, apical, brachial, femoral, radial, popliteal, dorsalis pedis

Front 12

Tachycardia

Back 12

Greater than 100 bpm

Front 13

Bradycardia

Back 13

Less than 60 bpm

Front 14

Pulse deficit

Back 14

When a ventricular contraction does not peruse the body adequately and the nurse will see a lower radial pulse than apical

Front 15

What can affect a patients respiration

Back 15

Age, medication, stress, pain, anxiety, infection, fever, shock, exercise, less oxygen, gender

Front 16

Tachypnea

Back 16

More than 20 breaths per min

Front 17

Bradypnea

Back 17

Less than 12 breaths per minute

Front 18

Apnea

Back 18

No breathing

Front 19

Dyspnea

Back 19

Shortness of breath

Front 20

Eupnea

Back 20

Normal breathing

Front 21

Systole

Back 21

Contraction of the heart muscles, especially the ventricles. Top #

Front 22

Diastole

Back 22

When the chambers are filling up with blood bottom #

Front 23

Pulse pressure

Back 23

The difference between systolic and diastolic

Front 24

Stroke volume

Back 24

amount of blood pumped by the LV with each heartbeat

Front 25

What can affect a patients blood pressure?

Back 25

Age, SNS, fluid deficit, fluid excess, medication, narcotics, diuretics, smoking, caffeine

Front 26

What are the sights and nurse can use to obtain a patients blood pressure?

Back 26

Arm upper and lower, thigh, ankle

Front 27

What are some contradictions to taking a patient's blood pressure?

Back 27

Centraline (clotting), peripheral IV, fistula, masectomy

Front 28

How can errors occur in BP measurement?

Back 28

Needle not on zero, legs crossed

Low readings

-cuff not pumped up enough

-cuff to big

High readings

-cuff too small

-patient is anxious

Front 29

How does the nurse obtain a patient's bp?

Back 29

Resting state, proper cuff size, proper positioning, proper inflation/deflation

Front 30

Korotkoff sounds

Back 30

Phase 1 first sound (systolic)

Phase 2 last sound (diastolic)

Front 31

Ausculatory gap

Back 31

Absence of korotkoff sounds between 1 and 2

Front 32

Hypertension

Back 32

140/ 90 or above

Front 33

Hypotension

Back 33

100/60 or below

Front 34

Orthostatic hypotension

Back 34

Systolic drops at 25 mm Hg, diastolic drops at least 10 mm Hg

Front 35

What is oxygen saturation?

Back 35

Oxygen bound to hemoglobin in blood

Normal reading is 95% or higher

Front 36

What can affect a patients pulse oximetry?

Back 36

-dark nail Polish, fake nails, edema

Front 37

When does pain occur?

Back 37

When the patient states they are in pain or show nonverbal responses.