Test 2

Question 1

represents the energy needed of a person at rest.

Answer 1

BMR

Question 2

transfer of heat between two objects without physical contact. Example: During surgery a patient losing heat in the cool environment of the operating room

Answer 2

Radiation

Question 3

Transfer of heat from one object to another with direct contact. Example: warm skin touches cooler object

Answer 3

Conduction

Question 4

The transfer of heat away from the body by air movement. Example: A Fan

Answer 4

Convection

Question 5

Transfer of heat energy when a liquid is changed to gas. Example: Happens on skin and in lungs

Answer 5

Evaporation

Question 6

visual evident perspiration

Answer 6

Diaphoresis

Question 7

Signs and Symptoms Include: Giddiness, confusion, delirium, excess thirst, nausea, muscle cramps, visual disturbances, and even incontinence. most important factor hot, dry skin.

Answer 7

Heat stroke

Question 8

oral and rectal temperture

Answer 8

More accurate, inner heat sites.

Question 9

Varies between 96.8-100.4

Answer 9

Normal Temperature Range

Question 10

An elevated body temperature related to a body’s inability to promote heat loss or reduce heat production.

Answer 10

Hyperthermia

Question 11

heat loss during prolonged exposure to cold overwhelms the body’s ability to produce heat

Answer 11

Hypothermia

Question 12

A constant body temperature continuously above 100.4 that demonstrates little flucuation

Answer 12

Sustained

Question 13

Fever spikes mixed with usual temperature levels; temperature returns to acceptable value at least once in 24 hours

Answer 13

Intermittent

Question 14

Fever spikes and falls without return to acceptable temperature levels.

Answer 14

Remittent

Question 15

Periods of febrile episodes mixed with acceptable temperatures values

Answer 15

Relapsing

Question 16

A palpable bounding of the blood flow in a peripheral artery

Answer 16

Pulse

Question 17

An inefficient contraction of the heart that fails to transmit a pulse wave to the peripheral pulse site. Do both radial and apical pulse. The difference is…

Answer 17

Pulse Deficit

Question 17

Normal Pulse Rate

Answer 17

60-100

Question 18

The difference between systolic and diastolic pressure

Answer 18

Pulse pressure

Question 19

Short term exercise, fever, heat, hyperthermia, acute pain, anxiety, positive chronotropic drug(epinephrine), loss of blood, standing or sitting, poor oxygenation

Answer 19

Factors that increase pulse rate

Question 20

Long term exercise, hypothermia, unrelieved severe pain, negative chronotropic drugs(digitalis), lying down

Answer 20

Factors that decrease pulse rate

Question 21

A regular interval interrupted by an early beat, late beat, or a misses beat is known as

Answer 21

Abnormal or dysrhythmia

Question 22

12-20 breaths per minute

Answer 22

Normal respiratory rate

Question 23

Anxiety, exercise, chronic smoking, amphetamines, decreased hemoglobin levels, increased altitude and abnormal blood cell function.

Answer 23

Factors that increase respiratory rate

Question 24

General anesthetics, bronchodilators

Answer 24

Factors that decrease respiratory rate

Question 25

Less than 12 breaths per minute

Answer 25

Bradypnea

Question 26

20 or greater breaths per minutes

Answer 26

Tachypnea

Question 27

Lack of respiratory movements

Answer 27

Apnea

Question 28

Respiratory rhythm or breathing pattern is either...

Answer 28

Regular or irregular

Question 29

The force exerted on the walls of an artery created by the pulsing blood under pressure from the heart

Answer 29

Blood pressure

Question 30

Occurs when the hearts ventricular contraction, forces blood under high pressure into the aorta.

Answer 30

Systolic pressure

Question 31

The ventricles relax, the blood remaining in the arteries exerts a minimum pressure

Answer 31

Diastolic pressure

Question 32

Obesity, cigarette smoke, heavy alcohol consumption, high cholesterol levels and continued exposure to stress.

Answer 32

Factors that can cause hypertension

Question 33

When arteries dilate, the peripheral vascular resistance decreases, the circulating blood volume decreases, or heart fails to provide adequate cardiac output

Answer 33

Factors that cause hypotension.

Question 34

Cuff to wide, arm above heart level

Answer 34

False-low reading

Question 35

Cuff to narrow or short, cuff wrapped to loosely, arm below heart level, arm not supported

Answer 35

False-high reading

Question 36

It is important to teach your patient about the benefits and effects of a balanced diet, regular exercise. And stress management and how to integrate each into a bowel routine. Teach your patient to try to develop a routine time for bowel evacuation.

Answer 36

Health promotion

Question 37

Patient with ostomys should first be placed on a low-fiber diet to avoid stoma obstruction.

Answer 37

Diet

Question 38

At times pressure is exerted to expel feces through voluntary contractions of the abdominal muscles while maintaining forced experation against a closed airway

Answer 38

Valsalva maneuver

Question 39

Gas, one of the most common GI disorders. It refers to a sensation of bloating and abdominal distention accompanied by excess gas.

Answer 39

Flatulence

Question 40

Are dilated engorged veins in the lining of the rectum

Answer 40

Hemorrhoid a

Question 41

Measures microscopic amounts of blood in the feces, useful screening test for colon cancer.

Answer 41

Fecal occult or guaiac test