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NUR 643E ADVANCED HEALTH ASSESSMENT FINAL E XAM
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT VERIFIED SOLUTIONS 100%
GUARANTEED PASS (LATEST UPDATE)



You are admitting a patient in the ER. She complains of "horrible"
abdominal pain. You perform an abdominal exam - the patient is cringing,
abdomen rigid, and you do not hear any bowel sounds. What do you do
next? - ANS ✓Send to surgery, this acute abdomen is an emergency


Purple and pink striae on the abdomen may indicate what syndrome? - ANS
✓Cushings


"Absent bowel sounds" is after how many minutes? - ANS ✓5 minutes


Your 35 y/o male patient with hypertension refractory to medications. You
are performing an abdominal exam and notice a "whoosing" sound over the
renal arteries. What is high on your differential? - ANS ✓Renal artery
stenosis


What is an epigastric venous hum? - ANS ✓Soft, low pitched continuous sound
that occurs with increased collateral circulation between portal and systemic
venous systems


With what part of the stethoscope do you use to listen for bruits? - ANS
✓Bell


What is a friction rub? - ANS ✓High-pitched, scratching, grating sound heard
with the diaphragm of the stethoscope


Listen over the liver and spleen



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What does an abdominal friction rub indicate? - ANS ✓Inflammation of the
peritoneal surface of the organ from a tumor, abscess, or infarct


Why do you percuss the abdomen? - ANS ✓Helps you assess the amount and
distribution of gas in the abdomen, possible masses, and size of liver and spleen


How do you percuss the abdomen? What is normal? - ANS ✓Percuss all four
quadrants


Tympany predominates stomach and intestines (air filled)


Dullness over liver and spleen (solid organs)


Too much tympany (hyperresonance) = gas, fluid


Too much dull = distended bladder, mass, ascites


How do you percuss liver span? - ANS ✓- Right midclavicular line
- Below umbilicus, percuss upward (tympany to dullness)
- Over lung, percuss downward (resonance to dullness)
- Distance between two lines = liver span (2.5 inches/6-12 cm)


What is the scratch test? - ANS ✓Put diaphragm of stethoscope just above right
costal margin at the midclavicular line. With fingernail,
lightly scratch the skin of the abdomen along the midclavicular line, moving
from below the umbilicus toward the costal margin. When your scratching
finger reaches the liver's edge, you will hear a change in the scratching
sound as it passes through the liver to your stethoscope




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How do you percuss the spleen? - ANS ✓Percuss the left lower anterior chest
wall from the border of the cardiac dullness at the 6th rib to the anterior axillary
line and down to the costal margin (Traube's Space)


Should be dull in Traube's space


How do you assess for CVA tenderness? - ANS ✓Put a flat hand down over
where the kidney is and tap on your flat hand with your other fist


Ask your patient if it's tender


How do you percuss for ascites? - ANS ✓Fluid assumes a dependent position
and produces a dull tones around the flank


Air rises to the top and you hear tympany around the umbilicus


Have patient turn on side


How do you test for fluid wave during an abdominal exam? - ANS ✓Ask your
patient to press the edge of hand firmly down the midline of the abdomen


Tap on one flank sharply with your fingertips and feel on the opposite flank
for the impulse transmitted through the fluid


Useful for determining ascites


What is ballottment during an abdominal exam? - ANS ✓A mass will move
upward in the presence of ascites, will be felt at your fingertips when you push
inward at 90 degree angle




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You are palpating a patient's abdomen and you feel a mass. What do you
want to note about the mass? - ANS ✓Location
Size
Shape
Consistency
Tenderness
Pulsations
Mobility
Movement with respiration


You are performing a physical on a 66 y/o male patient. On abdominal
exam you notice a bounding abdominal pulsation in the epigastric region.
You auscultate and hear a bruit. What are you worried about? - ANS
✓Abdominal aortic aneurysm


You are assessing a patient with a past medical history of alcohol abuse.
You palpate her liver and feel hard sharp edges. What are you thinking? -
ANS ✓Alcoholic cirrhosis


How do you palpate the liver? - ANS ✓


Guarding, rigidity, tenderness, and a positive cough test on abdominal
exam indicates what? - ANS ✓Peritonitis (acute abdomen)


What does a normal liver feel like? - ANS ✓Firm, smooth, and even


An unusually soft feeling liver may indicate what? - ANS ✓Non-alcoholic fatty
liver disease


What are you looking for when you palpate your patient's liver? - ANS
✓Consistency - nodularity, firmness, etc



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