A Student Nurse Is Working with a Patient Who Has

question 27

Multiple Choice

A student nurse is working with a patient who has asthma.The primary nurse tells the student that wheezes can be heard on auscultation.The student expects to hear:

• A)coarse crackles and bubbling.
• B)high-pitched musical sounds.
• C)dry,grating noises.
• D)loud,low-pitched rumbling.

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Definitions:

Schizophrenia

A long-term mental disorder involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.

Voice Hallucinations

Auditory hallucinations where an individual hears voices that are not present or generated by an external source.

Thalamus

A structure in the brain that acts as a relay station, transmitting information from the sensory organs to the cerebral cortex.

Auditory Cortex

The region of the brain that is responsible for processing auditory information, located in the temporal lobe.