Answer to Question 1
Correct Answer: 4
Clients who receive narcotic analgesics can have reduced respiratory effort and ineffective airway clearance, which would be demonstrated by shallow, slow breathing and adventitious breath sounds caused by air passing over the secretions. Pneumonia, low blood sugar, or asthma would be more likely to result in rapid respirations.
Answer to Question 2
Correct Answer: 1,2,3
The client with dyspnea normally will breathe faster and have lower oxygen saturation, and often has noisy breath sounds that might reveal rales, rhonchi, or wheezing. The client might breathe deeply if experiencing air hunger, or more shallowly if an obstruction exists, so it is not possible to predict depth.