Questions
101
The nurse wants to check the popliteal pulse. This pulse can be better palpated if the nurse does which of the following things?
Answer: Have the client flex the knee.
102
The nurse positioning a client after surgery will take into account that the position, which most often predisposes a client to physiologic processes that suppress respiration, is which of the following positions?
Answer: Supine
103
The nurse is taking the client's blood pressure. The physician asks for the pulse pressure. To obtain the pulse pressure, the nurse will have to do which of the following things?
Answer: Subtract the diastolic blood pressure from the systolic.
104
The nurse notices that the client has a hematocrit of 70 percent. This level of hematocrit will most likely affect the vital signs in which of the following ways?
Answer: The blood pressure will be elevated.
105
The nurse finds that a newborn has a mean systolic pressure of 75 mmHg. How would this blood pressure be best described?
Answer: Normal
106
When working with clients experiencing pain, you will define their pain in regard to whether they have pain or not and how intense it is based on which of the following things?
Answer: whatever the experiencing person says it is.
107
When pain impulses are transmitted via the A-delta fibers, which of the following types of pain will your client have?
Answer: sharp, pricking pain
108
Your assigned client, who has been talking with the doctor about pain control, later asks you what the doctor meant by "pain threshold." Which of the following would be the best reply?
Answer: the amount of pain stimulation that it takes to cause pain
