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NURS 1543 Week 3 Exam With Verified Solutions 2024-2025Setup for Exam - Answer private and quiet
Decrease anxiety make comfortable
Infection control
Sterile field - Answer - all equipment must be sterilized prior to entering pts space
- paper towel on table top to set newly sterilized equipment
IPPA - Answer inspection, percussion, palpation, auscultation
Inspection - Answer hands off
Looking
Symmetry, colour, posture, gestures
Palpating - Answer temp
Moisture
Texture
Location of organs
Pain
Vibration
Lumps, bumps, masses
Pulsations
skin temperature - Answer use the dorsa of hands
tactile discrimination - Answer fingertips
, position and shape of organ or mass - Answer grasping of fingers and thumb
vibration - Answer metacarpophalangeal joints or ulnar surfaces
why might a patient stiffen when you approach them - Answer slow and gentle
warm up hands
intermittent pressure
painful and tender areas
indirect percussion (stationary hand) - Answer hyperextend middle finger of non
dominant hand
place distal joint grimly against skin
lift rest of hand off skin
indirect percussion (striking hand) - Answer flex middle finger
keep steady and relaxed
all wrist
striking action - Answer bouncing action
only fingertip
stole behind nail bed
strike two staccato blows
percussion notes - Answer flatness (muscle, bone, tumour) dullness (dense organ)
resonance (lung tissue) hyperresonance (child lung, increased air)
tympany (air filled viscus)
head landmarks - Answer cranial bones (frontal, temporal, parietal, and occipital)
sutures (fontanelles)
mastoid process
neck landmarks - Answer clavicle
manubriun
stern notch
sternomastoid
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