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Physical Assessment Questions and Answers (Q&A)

Why should you avoid palpating both carotid arteries at the same time?
J. Shatner, Content writer
Answered: Jul 19, 2018
A nurse should only palpate one carotid artery at a time because attempting to palpate both will cause severe changes in blood pressure due to the alteration of the heart rate. Because of this,...Read More

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Which symptom is an early sign of UTI in a client with a spinal cord injury?
E. Austin
Answered: Dec 18, 2018
UTI is an abbreviated word for Urinary Tract Infection. If you have a Urinary Tract Infection, then you may feel like you have to use the bathroom all of the time. This affects the bladder and...Read More

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What should you expect to hear when percussing a client's chest?
M. Klose, Content Writer
Answered: Oct 15, 2018
Percussing the chest refers to tapping on a person’s chest so that you can hear what is going on in the chest under the skin and skeleton bones. Besides percussion, there are other methods...Read More

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What should the nurse remember during evaluating skin turgor in an elderly client?
E. Austin
Answered: Dec 18, 2018
Your skin has an elastic quality to it. This means that it can easily stretch. Just like a rubber band stretches, so does the skin. A rubber band will stretch and then go back to its original...Read More

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What should the nurse do to avoid recording an erroneously low systolic blood pressure?
John Smith
Answered: Jan 22, 2025
Inflate the cuff at least another 30 mm hg after she can't palpate the radial pulse. The nurse should wrap an appropriate-size cuff around the clients upper arm and then place the diaphr...Read More

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What is security measures?
D. Ronald, Writer
Answered: Oct 15, 2018
Parents may be allowed to know important information about their child, but sometimes there are times when the adolescents can ask a medical personnel to keep their medical information a secret...Read More

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What is abdominal hysterectomy?
D. Ronald, Writer
Answered: Oct 15, 2018
Shock is a term used loosely by people when they are surprised, but it is also a serious term used in the medical field when someone gets ill or injured. Their body could go into shock because...Read More

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What kind of data makes up the health history?
Wyatt Williams
Answered: Jan 22, 2025
Subjective data

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Which type of data does Auscultation provide?
E. Austin
Answered: Dec 18, 2018
If you have ever been to the doctor, you have most likely gone through an auscultation assessment. When the doctor uses his stethoscope to listen to the organs in your body, he or she is doing an...Read More

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What is the plane divides the body longitudinally into anterior and posterior regions?
John Smith
Answered: Jan 22, 2025
Frontal plane-rationale: a frontal or coronal plane, which runs longitudinally at a right angle to a sagittal plane, divides the body into anterior and posterior regions. a sagittal plane runs...Read More

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What is heart sounds?
M. Krasinski, Content Writer
Answered: Oct 01, 2018
You can already guess from the given details that S1 is loudest at the apex and S2 is loudest at the base. This means that D is the right answer. The lub sound can be heard at the apex portion of...Read More

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What should you suspect if you detect high-pitched gurgles over the lower right quadrant (when auscultating a client's abdomen)?
Ken Wilson, Marketing Analyst
Answered: Nov 11, 2018
Auscultation refers to when the doctor places his stethoscope over your chest and abdomen and he listens. He may ask you to breath deeply so that he can better hear any sound that might be...Read More

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What is a healthy stoma?
F. Ray, Student
Answered: Oct 15, 2018
If a client suffers from a colostomy, then the client should be taught a session about the colostomy before the client is discharged. A colostomy is a procedure done through surgery where the...Read More

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What is sterile dressing?
John Smith
Answered: Jan 22, 2025
Infection Infection produces such signs as redness, swelling, induration, warmth, and possibly drainage. Dehiscence may cause unexplained fever and tachycardia, unusual wound pain, prolon...Read More

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What is the mean hospital with pneumonia?
John Smith
Answered: Jan 22, 2025
Impaired speech-rationale: in parkinsons disease, dysarthria, or impaired speech, results from a disturbance in muscle control. muscle rigidity, not flaccidity, causes resistance to passive muscle...Read More

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