Peripheral/Cardiac
Blood supply to the brain is check by assesing?
The carotid arteries
Recreational noise, smoking, ototoxic meds
Risk factors to earring loss
Barrel chest, clubbing fingers, and tripod position
Signs of Chronic respiratory issues
The bone involved with TMJ
Mandible
Assessment step after inspecting the skin
Listen to bowel sounds in all 4 quadrants.
Myocardium, endocardium, epicardium
Layers of the heart muscle
Increasing age, obesity, diabetes mellitus
Risk factors for Cataract develpment
Patient states "ninety-nine" while asculating the chest wall.
Bronchophony
To inspect movement of the client’s thyroid gland, the nurse should ask the client to
swallow a sip of water
Optimal positon for a abdominal assessment?
Supine with head slightly rised and knees slightly bent
Apical pulse should be heard at which cardiac site?
Mitral area
The test performed using a toning fork and placing the base on the clients mastoid process?
Rinne
Proper assessment of lung fields in assessed how?
Listen at each site for one complete respiratory cycle.
Common mouth assesssment finding of the gums in an older adult?
Receding and ischemic gums
Palpation of what quardant is used to assess the liver?
Right upper quadrant
Popliteal artery is palapated at what area?
Back side of knee
PERRLA is used to assess which body part?
Eyes
A patient with asthma in respiratory distress would have which kind of adventitious lunch sounds?
Wheezes
A man from Asia is at higher risk of having oropharyngal cancer based on which culture related risk facto?
Chewing betel nuts
A leg is swollen, red, and hot to the touch. A nurse would suspect which compliction?
Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)
Assessment preformed if a nurse suspects a DVT in the popliteal area?
A physical obstruction to the transmission of sound waves?
Conductive hearing loss
Characteristics of a patient with an upper respiratory infection?
Red, swollen and purulent discharge
Sitting with head erect and at the eye level of the nurse
Pressure ulcer as being partial thickness loss of dermis presenting as a shallow, open ulcer with a red/pink wound bed, without slough to the sacral area
Stage 2