FREE NBRC Respiratory Therapist Questions and Answers

Question 1

You have finished charting on your patient when you notice that an error was made.  You should do which of the following?

Accepted Answer

Place a line through the error, initial it, and write in the correct information

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Tell the nurse so that she will tell the physician

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Tell the nurse so that she will chart the correct information

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Have your supervisor chart the correct information

Question 2

In listening to a patient's lungs, you notice bronchial breath sounds in her right lower lobe.  These would indicate which of the following?

Accepted Answer

Consolidation in her right lower lobe

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Normal lungs

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Pneumothorax

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Pleural effusion in her right lower lobe

Question 3

You are called to start a new aerosolized medication treatment.  After reading the physician's order, you notice that the drug dosage is outside the normal department guidelines.  You should do which of the following?

Accepted Answer

Contact the physician to confirm that the order is indeed correct

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Give the treatment as ordered

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Give the treatment as ordered, and leave a note in the chart asking for clarification for the next treatment

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Have the nurse rewrite the order

Question 4

You are called to the Emergency Department to help care for a patient who was in a car accident and has chest injuries, including broken ribs.  While palpating her neck, you feel crepitation.  What is the most likely cause of this?

Accepted Answer

She has an air leak from her lung

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She has a laryngeal tumor

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Blood is in the back of her throat

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She has aspirated a tooth

Question 5

You are called ot help in the evaluation of a 55-year old male patient.  You notice the following signs and symptoms: oral temperature of 40 degrees C (104.5 F), diaphoresis, respiratory rate of 22, the use of accessory muscles of respiration, and palpable rhonchi in the right lower love.  You would suspect which of the following diagnoses:

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Bacterial pneumonia

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Heart attack

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Pneumothorax

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Viral pneumonia

Question 6

Since being told of the diagnosis of cancer, a patient has become argumentative about his care and threatens to hit the nurse and therapist.  He should be evaluated for:

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Emotional state

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Language barrier problems

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Hypercarbia

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Hypoxemia

Question 7

To help determine your patient's level of consciousness, you should ask which of the following questions? 1. Do you you know what day this is? 2. Can I see your identification wristband? 3. Do you know where you are? 4. How are you feeling today? 5. Do you know who the president is?

Accepted Answer

2, 4

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3

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5

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1, 3

Question 8

To help you determine whether your patient has orthopnea, you would ask which of the following?

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Do you need to use extra pillows behind your head and back to keep from getting short of breath when you sleep?

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How many flights of stairs can you climb before you become short of breath?

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Do you know who the governor is?

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Do any particular foods seem to make it harder for you to cough up your secretions?

Question 9

In observing an infant's chest configuration, you notice that it is the same size in both the AP and lateral dimensions.  This would indicate that the patient has:

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A normal chest

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Funnel chest/pectus excavatum

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Pulmonary emphysema with air trapping

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Lordosis

Question 10

In examining your patient, you notice that she has greatly diminished breath sounds in her right lower lobe, and her trachea has shifted to the right.  These signs indicate which condition?

Accepted Answer

Right-sided atelectasis

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Right-sided pneumothorax

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Left-sided pneumothorax

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Left-sided pneumonia