1. Nursing instructions for a patient who is scheduled for a perfusion lung scan should include informing the patient that:

2. A nurse understands that a safe but low level of oxygen saturation provides for adequate tissue saturation but allows no reserve for situations that threaten ventilation. A safe but low oxygen saturation level is:

3. Bacterial pneumonia can be indicated by the presence of all of the following except:

4. The nurse should advise the patient who is scheduled for bronchoscopy that he or she will:

5. Uneven perfusion of the lung is primarily due to:

6. A physician wants a study of diaphragmatic motion because of suspected pathology. The physician would most likely order a:

7. When taking a respiratory history, the nurse should assess:

8. Tidal volume, which may not significantly change with disease, has a normal value of approximately:

9. During a preadmission assessment, the nurse would expect to find decreased tactile fremitus and hyperresonant percussion sounds with a diagnosis of:

10. The arterial blood gas measurement that best reflects the adequacy of alveolar ventilation is the:

11. The divisions of the lung lobe proceed in the following order, beginning at the mainstem bronchi:

12. Airflow into the lungs during inspiration depends on all of the following except:

13. Chest pain described as knifelike on inspiration would most likely be diagnostic of:

14. Choose the alveolar cells that secrete surfactant.

15. The pulmonary circulation is considered a:

16. A patient exhibits cyanosis when how much hemoglobin is unoxygenated?

17. Crackles, noncontiguous breath sounds, would be assessed for a patient with:

18. The left lung, in contrast to the right lung, has:

19. The nurse inspects the thorax of a patient with advanced emphysema. The nurse expects chest configuration change consistent with a deformity known as:

20. A nurse caring for a patient with a pulmonary embolism understands that a high ventilation–perfusion ratio may exist. This means that:

21. The symbol used to identify the partial pressure of oxygen is:

22. The purpose of the cilia is to:

23. Hemoptysis, a symptom of cardiopulmonary disorders, is characterized by all of the following except:

24. Nursing directions to a patient from whom a sputum specimen is to be obtained should include all of the following except directing the patient to:

25. Gerontologic changes in the respiratory system include all of the following except:

26. Gas exchange between the lungs and blood and between the blood and tissues is called:

27. Breath sounds that originate in the smaller bronchi and bronchioles and are high-pitched, sibilant, and musical are called:

28. The lungs are enclosed in a serous membrane called the:

29. Nursing assessment for a patient with chest pain includes:

30. The exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide from the alveoli into the blood occurs by:

31. Choose the initial part of the respiratory tract that is not considered part of the gas-exchange airways.

32. A patient with sinus congestion points to the area on the inside of the eye as a point of pain. The nurse knows that the patient is referring to which sinus?

33. The maximum volume of air that can be inhaled after a normal inhalation is known as: