Exam 16: Health Assessment and Physical Examination

The nurse is assessing an elderly patient and notices a significant drooping of the eyelid.The nurse recognizes this as which of the following?

A nurse is preparing to perform a physical exam on a patient.She has found that it is best to perform the physical with a head-to-toe approach.Why is this important?

A nurse uses four basic skills during a physical assessment.While assessing the abdomen the nurse must begin with which of the following skills?

A nurse inspects the thorax of an older adult patient who has chronic lung disease.An expected finding would be a(n):

A patient is being seen in the health clinic for abdominal pain.The nurse will be doing a physical assessment.After using light palpation to examine the patient,the nurse uses deep palpation.With deep palpation the nurse does which of the following?

The registered nurse is precepting a first-year nursing student.She is demonstrating how to appropriately auscultate.Auscultation is defined as which of the following?

A nurse is assisting with a female genitalia examination.The nurse will assist the patient to which position?

A nurse is admitting a 79-year-old woman with a fractured hip to the orthopedic unit.Her husband states that she broke her hip when she tripped in her garden.Upon examination,the nurse notes purple,green,and yellow bruises on the back and arms.The patient states that those were received when she fell.The nurse should do which of the following?

The patient recently had a cast applied to his left lower leg after a football injury in which he broke his tibia.After the application of the cast,the nurse felt the toes of his left and right feet.To assess circulation in the left foot,the nurse should do which of the following?

A single mother with three school-age children has recently noticed that the second child has been scratching his head and complains that it itches.She asks the school nurse to examine him.The school nurse notes that the child has head lice.Which of the following is the best description of head lice?

The nurse is assessing an older adult who has smoked for the past 47 years and has been diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.Which of the following would the nurse expect to see upon physical examination of the patient?

A woman went to the public health clinic with a fever that had persisted for several days.Upon palpation of the neck,a registered nurse found several large lymph nodes.What is the nurse's best response to this patient upon palpating her lymph nodes?

An older adult patient complains of thirst,headache,and weight loss.The patient appears emaciated.On physical assessment the nurse finds that the patient's skin does not return to normal shape after being assessed.This finding is consistent with which of the following?