Exam 21: Abdomen

A patient has hypoactive bowel sounds.The nurse knows that a potential cause of hypoactive bowel sounds is:

A patient has been diagnosed with pernicious anemia.The nurse knows that this condition could be related to:

To detect diastasis recti,the nurse should have the patient perform which of the following maneuvers?

Percussion notes heard during the abdominal assessment may include:

A 22-year-old man comes to the clinic for an examination after falling off his motorcycle and landing on his left side on the handlebars.The nurse suspects that he may have injured his spleen.Which of the following is true regarding assessment of the spleen in this situation?

To the horizontal plane,a scaphoid contour of the abdomen depicts:

The nurse is listening to bowel sounds.Which of the following is true of bowel sounds?

The nurse suspects that a patient has appendicitis.Which of the following procedures are appropriate for use when assessing for appendicitis or a perforated appendix? Select all that apply.

The nurse suspects that a patient has a distended bladder.How should the nurse assess for this condition?

A patient is complaining of tenderness along the costovertebral angles.The nurse knows that this symptom is most often indicative of:

While examining a patient,the nurse observes abdominal pulsations between the xiphoid and umbilicus.The nurse would suspect that these are:

The nurse knows that during an abdominal assessment,deep palpation is used to determine:

Tenderness on light palpation in the right lower quadrant could indicate a disorder of which of the following structures?

When palpating the abdomen of a 20-year-old patient,the nurse notes the presence of tenderness in the left upper quadrant with deep palpation.Which of the following structures is most likely to be involved?