Final Exam: NURS190 NURS 190

Final Exam: NURS190 / NURS 190

(Latest Update 2025 / 2026) Physical Assessment | Guide Questions and Answers | Grade A | 100% Correct - West Coast

Question:

The nurse is completing a respiratory assessment of the client. The nurse is palpating the client’s thorax and finds no masses and firm muscle mass. The nurse plans to next auscultate the lungs. Which of the following is the best next action?

Answer:

• Wash hands and then pick up the stethoscope

Question:

Which of the following would the nurse expect to find in a client W/ COPD?

Answer:

• Shortness of breath
• Diminished fremitus
• Diminished breath sounds
• Diminished breath sounds 1 / 4

Question:

results from bronchospasm and mucosal edema due to irritants or allergens, wheezing heard

• atelectasis
• emphysema
• pneumonia
• asthma
• chronic bronchitis

Answer:

• asthma

Question:

Fluid that results in crackles due to infection

• atelectasis
• emphysema
• pneumonia
• asthma
• chronic bronchitis

Answer:

• pneumonia

• / 4

Question:

Caused by an airway obstruction such as mucus plug, impaired inflation of lung

• atelactasis
• emphysema
• pneumonia
• asthma
• chronic bronchitis

Answer:

• atelactasis

Question:

decreased elasticity of lungs, air trapped, diminished sounds

• atelactasis
• emphysema
• pneumonia
• asthma
• chronic bronchitis

Answer:

• emphysema

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Question:

Inflammation, productive cough, rhonchi to upper airways

• atelactasis
• emphysema
• pneumonia
• asthma
• chronic bronchitis

Answer:

• chronic bronchitis

Question:

Breast cancer review: WHAT ARE SYMPTOMS?

Answer:

• Nipple discharge
• Thicky, sticky nipple drainage
• Lump on palpation of breast
• Peau d'orange
• Dimpling over the breast skin
• Eczema around nipple

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