NSE 103 - HEALTH ASSESSMENT
WEEK 11 SKILLS TESTING
QUESTIONS AND ACTUAL ANSWERS.
Scenario #1
Assess your partners' hands (not nails) for colour (2 findings), temperature, and capillary refill.
Provide findings. - Answer I can note that the skin tone on your hands is even and consistent
with your genetic background with no discolouration. The temperature is warm (slightly cooler
at the fingertips) and equal bilaterally. Good capillary refill with the colour returning within 1-2
second
Scenario #2
Assess your partner's skin turgor and assess moisture, texture, and thickness on arms. Report 1
finding for each. - Answer I can note that you have good skin mobility, and easily return to
place. I can note that you have no moisture and texture is smooth and even with no thickness in
your skin felt.
Scenario #3
Assess your partner's fingernails for shape/contour (note 1 finding), consistency (note 2
findings), and the profile sign (note findings). - Answer Your nails are rounded, curved and
smooth with uniform thickness and a firm nail base. The angle of the nail base is 160 degrees
Scenario #4
Name and palpate 8 lymph nodes of the head, face and neck of your lab partner. - Answer
Scenario #5
Test the sensory function of cranial nerve V (trigeminal). Report and explain findings. - Answer
I note that you have equal sensations on both sides at the forehead, the cheeks, and the chin.
This indicates a normal sensory function of cranial nerve five.
Scenario #6
Inspect the posterior thorax. Provide 6 findings. - Answer Your in a upright position and your
skin is consistent with your genetic background. The posterior thorax is symmetrical, in an
elliptical shape, with downward sloping ribs, with a normal ratio of 1:2 of your anteroposterior
diameter to your transverse diameter.
Scenario #7
Palpate the posterior chest wall (provide 3 findings) and test for symmetrical expansion (provide
1 finding). - Answer Okay so no pain, no lumps or masses and no lesions are noted. I can note
WEEK 11 SKILLS TESTING
QUESTIONS AND ACTUAL ANSWERS.
Scenario #1
Assess your partners' hands (not nails) for colour (2 findings), temperature, and capillary refill.
Provide findings. - Answer I can note that the skin tone on your hands is even and consistent
with your genetic background with no discolouration. The temperature is warm (slightly cooler
at the fingertips) and equal bilaterally. Good capillary refill with the colour returning within 1-2
second
Scenario #2
Assess your partner's skin turgor and assess moisture, texture, and thickness on arms. Report 1
finding for each. - Answer I can note that you have good skin mobility, and easily return to
place. I can note that you have no moisture and texture is smooth and even with no thickness in
your skin felt.
Scenario #3
Assess your partner's fingernails for shape/contour (note 1 finding), consistency (note 2
findings), and the profile sign (note findings). - Answer Your nails are rounded, curved and
smooth with uniform thickness and a firm nail base. The angle of the nail base is 160 degrees
Scenario #4
Name and palpate 8 lymph nodes of the head, face and neck of your lab partner. - Answer
Scenario #5
Test the sensory function of cranial nerve V (trigeminal). Report and explain findings. - Answer
I note that you have equal sensations on both sides at the forehead, the cheeks, and the chin.
This indicates a normal sensory function of cranial nerve five.
Scenario #6
Inspect the posterior thorax. Provide 6 findings. - Answer Your in a upright position and your
skin is consistent with your genetic background. The posterior thorax is symmetrical, in an
elliptical shape, with downward sloping ribs, with a normal ratio of 1:2 of your anteroposterior
diameter to your transverse diameter.
Scenario #7
Palpate the posterior chest wall (provide 3 findings) and test for symmetrical expansion (provide
1 finding). - Answer Okay so no pain, no lumps or masses and no lesions are noted. I can note
