Dullness - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

HESI / Final Exam: NUR101 / NUR 101 (Latest 2024 / 2025 Update) Health Assessment | Guide with Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A – Fortis Question: what is the significance of dullness on percussion? Answer: consolidation. could indicate fluid, tumor or infection. Question: the nurse percussions over a patient with pneumonia. percussion over an atelectasis in the lungs would reveal? Answer: dullness Question: dead space where no gas exchange occurs An...

Final Exam: NR 509/ NR509 Advanced Physical Assessment (2024/ 2025 Update)- Chamberlain What are you auscultating on abdomen? - ANSWER Bowel sounds x4 quadrants (may be absent with perforation, peritonitis and BO) Bruits (abdominal aorta, R/L renal, R/L iliac) What are you percussing on abdomen? - ANSWER All 4 quadrants for dullness, tympany, flatness Liver size Which abdominal organs are tympanic? - ANSWER ...

Exam 2: NURS612/ NURS 612 (Latest 2024/ 2025 Update) Advanced Health Assessment Guide| Qs & As| 100% Correct| Grade A- Maryville Q: Which finding suggests a minor structural variation upon examination? Answer: Pectus carinatum Q: Skin lesions are transilluminated to determine: Answer: Fluid-filled lesions from solid cysts or masses. Q: The most common cutaneous neoplasm is: Answer: Basal cell carcinoma. Q: To find the infection site associated with acute...

NR 509 Final Exam Study Guide 2024 7. A 23-year-old woman comes to the respirology clinic for follow-up of her chronic sinusitis and bronchiectasis that is associated with a rare congenital condition called Kartagener syndrome. The preceptor notes that she has situs inversus and asks for a physical exam. Which of the following descriptions best fits with findings on the abdominal exam?: a. Tympany to percussion in the right upper quadrant, dullness to percussion of the left upper q...

Midterm Exam: NUR634/ NUR 634 (New 2023/ 2024 Update) Advanced Health Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning |Study Guide with Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct – GCU QUESTION Where would you listen for bruits in the abdominal aorta? Answer: above the umbilicus below xiphoid process just left of the midline. QUESTION What does CVA tenderness assess for? Answer: pyelonephritis. QUESTION Findings of cirrhosis: Answer: enlarged liver with i...

Which statement suggests that a patient may be at risk for contracting viral hepatitis A. a. I am a healthcare worker b. I had a blood transfusion recently c. I have renal failure and have hemodyalisis three times per week. d. I have recently been overseas.: D. I have recently been overseas The examiner observes venous return on the abdomen of the patient that moves upward from the pubis to the chest. This finding should make the examiner consider.... a. portal hypertension b. renal artery ste...

1. A nurse is caring for a client who has not voided for several hours. When percussing the client's bladder to assess for distention, the nurse should expect to hear which of these sounds? -Tympany -Hyperresonance -Dullness -Resonance. ANS dullness 2. A nurse is preparing to change a client's sterile dressing. Which actions by the nurse, if observed, would contaminate the sterile field? -The nurse opens the sterile dressing tray without touching the inner surface of the wrapper -The n...

Final Exam: NR507/ NR 507 (2023/ 2024 Latest Update) Advanced Physical Assessment Exam| 100% Correct Questions and Verified Answers| Grade A - Chamberlain Q: A 54-year-old female dietician presents for a routine annual examination. On review of systems, she reports that she has had many breast findings over several years, including one biopsy with normal pathology. She feels that her breasts have become far less lumpy since she underwent menopause 3 years ago. Which of the following is true r...

Exam 1: NR304 / NR 304 (Latest 2024/2025 Update) Health Assessment II |Review with Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct | Grade A -Chamberlain Q: What is the order of the Abdominal assessment? Answer: 1.Inspection 2.Auscultation 3.Percussion 4.Palpation Q: What are the Quadrants of the Abdomen? Answer: RUQ, LUQ, RLQ, LLQ Q: What are the organs located in the Right Upper Quadrant- RUQ? Answer: 1-Liver 2- Gallbladder 3- Duodenum 4- Head of pancreas 5- Rig...

NURS 6225 Advanced Health Assessment Exam 2 (2022) When examining a patient for the apical impulse (PMI), which of the following is LEAST important to assess? A. Location B. Amplitude C. Rhythm D. Diameter - Answer- C. Rhythm Assess location, amplitude, duration, and diameter 5 A's of tobacco cessation - AnswerWhat is tactile fremitus? - Answer- palpable vibrations transmitted through the bronchopulmonary tree to the chest wall as the patient is speaking "99" NORMAL= buzzing on...