Exam 6: Assessment

The nurse is caring for a patient with pneumonia, who is a retired soldier who served in World War II. With this information in mind, what should the nurse do in regarding this patient?

The nurse is performing an assessment of a patient's right kidney. The nurse bluntly strikes the area of the costovertebral angle while observing the patient's reaction. Which assessment technique is the nurse using?

The nurse is performing her initial assessment of the day when she notices that the patient has a facial droop that was not present yesterday and that was not reported in the hand-off report from the night nurse. The nurse proceeds to assess the neurologic status of the patient and knows this to be which type of assessment?

The nurse identifies which examples listed indicate objective data?

The charge nurse is planning vital sign assignments for the unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) on a busy medical-surgical unit. Which patients are appropriate for the UAP to obtain vital signs?