NUR 2180 MODULE 3 QUIZ | PHYSICAL
ASSESSMENT EXAM | QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS RATED A+ | 2024/2025
GUIDE | RASMUSSEN
How should you assess the abdomen?
- Correct Answer - RLQ at the ileocecal valve area because bowel
sounds normally present here. Listening to all four quadrants not
necessary.
Why do we use the bell of the stethoscope during an abdominal exam?
- Correct Answer - to listen for bruits of the abdominal aorta
Where is the costovertebral angle?
- Correct Answer - the lower border of the 12h rib and the transverse
processes of the upper lumbar vertebrae
What are some of the abnormalities of the breast skin?
- Correct Answer - hyperpigmentation, redness, heat with inflammation,
unilateral dilated superficial veins in a nonpregnant woman, edema
What are abnormalities of breast tissue?
- Correct Answer - redness, dimpling, rash, change in size or contour
What are abnormalities of the nipple?
- Correct Answer - deviation in pointing, inverted, discharge, everted
What are abnormalities of the areola?
, - Correct Answer - change in color, or appearance
What is the importance of the axilla in a breast exam?
- Correct Answer - The breast tissue extends up into the axilla and the
axilla contains lymph nodes.
Where is the location of the liver?
- Correct Answer - RUQ under the right costal margin
Why do you use the bell of your stethoscope?
- Correct Answer - For vascular sounds like bruits (abnormal finding in
an abdominal exam)
Why would you use the diaphragm of your stethoscope?
- Correct Answer - For bowel sounds because they are high pitched
sounds.
What is borborygmus?
- Correct Answer - a normal hyperactive bowel sound (stomach growling)
What are normal bowel sounds?
- Correct Answer - high pitched gurgling cascading sounds irregular
from 5-30 times per minute
What are abnormal findings for an abdominal exam?
- Correct Answer - Abdominal distention, tenderness, rigidity, large mass,
muscle guarding indicating pain, bulges (hernia),
right hypochondriac region
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