GI
Percussion sound heard over areas of enclosed air (air in bowel)
What is tympany?
A yellow skin color resulting from rising bilirubin levels in the blood
What is jaundice?
When educating a male adolescent regarding testicular self-exams, they should be instructed this is the best time for the exam
What is during a warm shower?
The four components of a physical assessment
What are inspection, auscultation, percussion, and palpation?
This is site of the apical pulse (PMI)
What is 5th ICS, left MCL
What is inspection, auscultation, percussion, palpation?
The most frequent pre-malignant skin lesion, caused by UV exposure, and are red-tan scaly plaques
What are actinic keratosis?
Reports from a male patient of urinary frequency, weak stream, and sensation of incomplete emptying can signify a problem with this gland
What is the prostate?
Side of the stethoscope used to assess murmurs and bruits
What is the bell?
Level of consciousness where a patient drifts off to sleep when not stimulated, can be aroused to name being called, responds slowly to questions or commands
What is lethargic?
It can be flat, rounded, proturberant, or scaphoid
What is the contour of the abdomen?
A skin assessment used to check hydration status
What is skin turgor?
The optimal time for non-menopausal women to perform their monthly self breast exam
What is 4-7 days after their menstrual cycle?
The two main types of data collected during assessment
What are subjective and objective?
Name three ways to assess hydration in an infant
What are mucous membranes, fontanels, skin turgor, production of tears, urine output, cap refill, blood pressure?
These are GI functions that naturally decline in the aging adult
What is decreased salivation, decreased gastric acid secretion, and/or delayed esophageal emptying?
The most frequent pre-malignant skin lesion, caused by UV exposure, and are red-tan scaly plaques
What are actinic keratosis?
Benign growth of male breast tissue
What is gynecomastia?
This assessment technique involves careful observation using the senses
What is inspection?
Loss of color typically due to lack of RBC's (anemia) mostly seen in face, mouth, conjunctivae, and nails
What is pallor?
When palpating the abdomen the patient reports pain when the pressure is released from the palpation. This patient is exhibiting...
What is rebound tenderness?
An elevated, fluid-filled lesion up to 1cm in size
What is a vesicle?
Retractions in the breast usually caused by a growing neoplasm are indicated by this finding during a breast exam
What is dimpling?
Name at least two scales used for pain assessment
What are CRIES, FLACC, Faces, Numeric, Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia (PAINAD)
In relation to pain, PQRST stands for these
What is Provocation/Palliation, Quality, Region, Severity, and Time?