Exam 39: Nursing Assessment: Gastrointestinal System

When documenting the absence of bowel tones in all quadrants of a patient's abdomen, the nurse has auscultated the patient's abdomen for _____ minutes.

During change of shift report, the nurse has just received all of this information about a patient who is scheduled for a colonoscopy. Which information should be communicated to the health care provider before sending the patient for the procedure?

Which information collected by the nurse when caring for a patient who has just arrived in the recovery area after an upper endoscopy is most important to communicate to the health care provider?

The nurse will monitor a patient who has an obstruction of the common bile duct for

When the nurse is assessing an alert and independent older patient in the clinic for malnutrition risk, the most appropriate initial question is,

The nurse is obtaining a nursing history from a patient with esophagitis and gastritis. A question that is appropriate for the nurse to ask during assessment of the patient's health perception-health management functional health pattern is,

The RN and NA are caring for a patient who has just returned to the nursing unit after an esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD). Which nursing action being done by the NA requires that the RN intervene?

When listening to a patient's abdomen after the patient has eaten, the nurse will be concerned about

When caring for a patient following a needle biopsy of the liver at the bedside, the nurse should

When a patient has a history of a total gastrectomy, the nurse will monitor for clinical manifestations of

To palpate the liver, the nurse

While the nurse is obtaining a nursing history from a patient who is admitted with jaundice, the nurse will be most concerned about which patient statement?

To promote bowel evacuation in a patient with irregular bowel elimination, the nurse teaches the patient that the effects of the gastrocolic and duodenocolic reflexes can facilitate bowel elimination if the patient attempts defecation

A patient is hospitalized for evaluation after vomiting bright red blood. During a physical assessment of the patient, the nurse will be most concerned about

A patient with an obstructed common bile duct has a T-tube placed in the common bile duct to drain bile produced by the liver. The nurse would expect daily bile drainage of _____ ml.

The nurse is performing an assessment of an 80-year-old patient. Information related to the patient's nutritional-metabolic functional health pattern that the nurse recognizes as abnormal in a patient of this age is

Which information obtained by the nurse when admitting a patient who is scheduled for an ultrasound of the gallbladder indicates that the ultrasound may need to be rescheduled?