Vital Signs

Vital Signs Knowledge Quiz

Test your knowledge on vital signs with our engaging quiz designed for healthcare professionals and students alike. Dive into essential concepts like temperature measurement, pulse assessment, and respiratory evaluation.

10 multiple-choice questions
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10 Questions2 MinutesCreated by MeasuringHeart101

An older client has an oral temperature reading of 97.2 degrees F. The nurse realizes that this client's ow temperature could be due to which observation?

Loss of subcutaneous fat is noted

Hormones have fluctuated in this client

The anxiety level of the client has increased

Muscle activity has increased during the client's therapy session

The nurse is preparing to measure a client's temperature. What is the first thing that the nurse should do to ensure an accurate temperature reading?

Asses the equipment used is working properly

Place the client in a position that I smost comfortable for the healthcare provider

Take the temperature with a chemical disposable thermometer when the client is perspiring

Wait atleast 10 minutes before taking the temperature after a client has been smoking

The nurse needs to measure the temperature of a client who has a history of heart disease and has eaten a bowl of vegetable soup 45 minutes ago. Which site should the nurse use?

Axilla

Oral

Popliteal

Rectal

While waiting for the physician to respond regarding a client's elevated temperature, what can the nurse do to assist the client?

Bathe the client in ice water

Give the client an antipyretic

Increase fluid intake

Lower the room temperature

While assessing the dorsalis pedis pulse of a client, the nurse determines that the pulse is absent. However, the extremity is warm and pink with nail beds blanching at 2 to 3 seconds of capillary refilling time. How would the nurse explain these findings?

A change in the client's health status has occured

The client has thrown a blood clot in that extremity

The RN's watch has stopped working

Too much pressure was applied over the pulse site

The RN asses a client who is recovering from femoral popliteal bypass surgery and discovers that it is difficult to assess the dorsalis pedis pulses. Which nursing intervention would be most appropriate for the nurse to use?

Ask another nurse to asses the pulses

Document findings

Obtain a Doppler ultrasound stethoscope

Wait and try again later

When assessing a client's peripheral pulse, the health care provider is also assessing which of the following

Depth

Rythm

Sound

Stress

The nurse is going to assess the apical-radial pulse of a client with a cardiovascular disorder. Which rationale did the RN use to make this decision?

A forceful radial pulse is much too difficult to count correctly

Both arteriole and venous sounds were heard simultaneously

The pulse was bounding easily obliterated

The thrust of blood from the heart is too feeble for the wave to be felt at the peripheral pulse site.

A client is unconscious and in respiratory distress after being in a moto vehicle crash. Which should the nurse realize as being a factor that caused a change in this client's respiratory rate?

Exercise

Increased intercranial pressure

Increased environmental temperature

Stress

The nurse needs to assess a client's respiratory status. Which client position would be the best for this assessment?

Prone

Semi-fowler's

Side-lying

Supine

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