ATI RN · Multiple Choice Questions About Respiratory System
Question 1 of 31
A nurse assesses a client after a thoracentesis. Which assessment finding warrants immediate action?
Select an option. Use Strike to cross one out.
Rationale
Did you know the question?
ATI RN · Multiple Choice Questions About Respiratory System
Question 2 of 31
Respiratory mechanism is controlled by
Select an option. Use Strike to cross one out.
Rationale
Did you know the question?
ATI RN · Multiple Choice Questions About Respiratory System
Question 3 of 31
Pulmonary ventilation also called
Select an option. Use Strike to cross one out.
Rationale
Did you know the question?
ATI RN · Multiple Choice Questions About Respiratory System
Question 4 of 31
In which part of respiratory system gaseous exchange takes place?
Select an option. Use Strike to cross one out.
Rationale
Did you know the question?
ATI RN · Multiple Choice Questions About Respiratory System
Question 5 of 31
Wall of Larynx is supported by the cartilage
Select an option. Use Strike to cross one out.
Rationale
Did you know the question?
ATI RN · Multiple Choice Questions About Respiratory System
Question 6 of 31
A nurse assesses a client who has a nasal fracture. The client reports constant nasal drainage
Select an option. Use Strike to cross one out.
Rationale
Did you know the question?
ATI RN · Multiple Choice Questions About Respiratory System
Question 7 of 31
The nurse is assessing a newly admitted medical patient and notes there is a depression in the lower portion of the patient's sternum. This patient's health record should note the presence of what chest deformity?
Select an option. Use Strike to cross one out.
Rationale
Did you know the question?
ATI RN · Multiple Choice Questions About Respiratory System
Question 8 of 31
Pinnaglobin is a brown coloured blood pigment present in the plasma of the mollusk Pinna. It contains
Select an option. Use Strike to cross one out.
Rationale
Did you know the question?
ATI RN · Multiple Choice Questions About Respiratory System
Question 9 of 31
At a PO2 of 70 mm Hg and normal temperature and pH, hemoglobin is ________ percent saturated with oxygen.
Select an option. Use Strike to cross one out.
Rationale
Did you know the question?
ATI RN · Multiple Choice Questions About Respiratory System
Question 10 of 31
A medical patient rings her call bell and expresses alarm to the nurse, stating, 'I've just coughed up this blood. That can't be good, can it?' How can the nurse best determine whether the source of the blood was the patient's lungs?
Select an option. Use Strike to cross one out.
Rationale
Did you know the question?
ATI RN · Multiple Choice Questions About Respiratory System
Question 11 of 31
Bohr effect shifts the O2 Hb dissociation curve to right
Select an option. Use Strike to cross one out.
Rationale
Did you know the question?
ATI RN · Multiple Choice Questions About Respiratory System
Question 12 of 31
For the surface of an animal to function in the integumentary exchange of gases it must
Select an option. Use Strike to cross one out.
Rationale
Did you know the question?
ATI RN · Multiple Choice Questions About Respiratory System
Question 13 of 31
The nurse recognizes that additional teaching is needed when the patient with asthma says
Select an option. Use Strike to cross one out.
Rationale
Did you know the question?
ATI RN · Multiple Choice Questions About Respiratory System
Question 14 of 31
Which of the following are risk factors of laryngeal cancer?
Select an option. Use Strike to cross one out.
Rationale
Did you know the question?
ATI RN · Multiple Choice Questions About Respiratory System
Question 15 of 31
A nurse in a medical unit is caring for a client with heart failure. The client suddenly develops extreme dyspnea,tachycardia and lung crackles. The nurse immediately asks another nurse to contact the primary health care provider and prepares to implement ALL priority interventions EXCEPT?
Select an option. Use Strike to cross one out.
Rationale
Did you know the question?
ATI RN · Multiple Choice Questions About Respiratory System
Question 16 of 31
Which metal ion is often present in the active site of carbonic anhydrase enzymes?
Select an option. Use Strike to cross one out.
Rationale
Did you know the question?
ATI RN · Multiple Choice Questions About Respiratory System
Question 17 of 31
You are up very high where barometric pressure is 447 mmHg. What is the partial pressure of oxygen in the air up there?
Select an option. Use Strike to cross one out.
Rationale
Did you know the question?
ATI RN · Multiple Choice Questions About Respiratory System
Question 18 of 31
A nurse has educated a client on isoniazid. What statement by the client indicates that teaching has been effective?
Select an option. Use Strike to cross one out.
Rationale
Did you know the question?
ATI RN · Multiple Choice Questions About Respiratory System
Question 19 of 31
Pneumatic and inhibitory centers are associated with
Select an option. Use Strike to cross one out.
Rationale
Did you know the question?
ATI RN · Multiple Choice Questions About Respiratory System
Question 20 of 31
The nurse is teaching a male client with chronic bronchitis about breathing exercises. Which of the following should the nurse include in the teaching?
Select an option. Use Strike to cross one out.
Rationale
Did you know the question?
ATI RN · Multiple Choice Questions About Respiratory System
Question 21 of 31
A male patient has a sucking stab wound to the chest. Which action should the nurse take first?
Select an option. Use Strike to cross one out.
Rationale
Did you know the question?
ATI RN · Multiple Choice Questions About Respiratory System
Question 22 of 31
The abnormal assessment findings of dullness and hyperresonance are found with which assessment technique?
Select an option. Use Strike to cross one out.
Rationale
Did you know the question?
ATI RN · Multiple Choice Questions About Respiratory System
Question 23 of 31
A client with suspected tuberculosis will most likely relate which clinical manifestations?
Select an option. Use Strike to cross one out.
Rationale
Did you know the question?
ATI RN · Multiple Choice Questions About Respiratory System
Question 24 of 31
The client with COPD has a nursing diagnosis of Ineffective Breathing Pattern. Which action is appropriate to delegate to the experienced LPN/LVN under your supervision?
Select an option. Use Strike to cross one out.
Rationale
Did you know the question?
ATI RN · Multiple Choice Questions About Respiratory System
Question 25 of 31
Which of the following are structural features of the trachea?
Select an option. Use Strike to cross one out.
Rationale
Did you know the question?
ATI RN · Multiple Choice Questions About Respiratory System
Question 26 of 31
The Hering-Breuer reflex
Select an option. Use Strike to cross one out.
Rationale
Did you know the question?
ATI RN · Multiple Choice Questions About Respiratory System
Question 27 of 31
The nurse is assessing a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Which assessment finding indicates a potential complication and requires the nurse's immediate attention?
Select an option. Use Strike to cross one out.
Rationale
Did you know the question?
ATI RN · Multiple Choice Questions About Respiratory System
Question 28 of 31
When CO2 diffuses into blood in systemic capillaries most of it:
Select an option. Use Strike to cross one out.
Rationale
Did you know the question?
ATI RN · Multiple Choice Questions About Respiratory System
Question 29 of 31
The term "blue bloater" refers to which of the following conditions?
Select an option. Use Strike to cross one out.
Rationale
Did you know the question?
ATI RN · Multiple Choice Questions About Respiratory System
Question 30 of 31
Lungs are held tightly to the wall of the thorax due to
Select an option. Use Strike to cross one out.
Rationale
Did you know the question?
ATI RN · Multiple Choice Questions About Respiratory System
Question 31 of 31
Carbon monoxide
Select an option. Use Strike to cross one out.
Rationale
Did you know the question?
End of free preview
You have finished the first five questions. Sign in to continue this set and save your progress.
