Wilkes University NSG 500
WILKES NSG 500 EXAM
1 SUMMER 2026
QUESTIONS VERIFIED
AND PROVIDED WITH A+
GRADED ANSWERS |
LATEST UPDATED 2026
,If a patient isn't giving you the answers you're looking for, what's the best way to get it?
Direct questions/qualifier questions
What are good ways to ask a patient their story?
Open ended questions
Cultural sensitivity: purpose, reason it is important, how culture may impact aspects of an
exam of emotional health.
Looking at others' lifestyles. Understanding beliefs. Ask questions.
The steps of assessment
inspection, palpation, percussion, auscultation;
Inspection
It is the process of observation. Your eyes and nose are sensitive tools for gathering data.
Observe gait and stance and ease of movement.
Inspection includes
Color, moisture, odor, Hygiene, Clothes, making eye contact?
, Palpation
Involves the use of hands and fingers to gather info through the sense of touch.
When palpating use ulnar surface for
detecting vibration
Patient position for palpating abdominal organs?
Stand to the patients right side and have them lay in the supine position. Use palmar
surface of hand.
Percussion
involves striking one object against another to produce vibrations and subsequent
sound waves. Fingers function as a hammer. Sound waves are heard as percussion tones
(called resonance).
Percussion tone and density?
The denser the item percussed the quieter the percussion
-Tympany, hyperresonance, resonance, dullness, flatness
Tympany is the loudest and flatness is the quietest.
WILKES NSG 500 EXAM
1 SUMMER 2026
QUESTIONS VERIFIED
AND PROVIDED WITH A+
GRADED ANSWERS |
LATEST UPDATED 2026
,If a patient isn't giving you the answers you're looking for, what's the best way to get it?
Direct questions/qualifier questions
What are good ways to ask a patient their story?
Open ended questions
Cultural sensitivity: purpose, reason it is important, how culture may impact aspects of an
exam of emotional health.
Looking at others' lifestyles. Understanding beliefs. Ask questions.
The steps of assessment
inspection, palpation, percussion, auscultation;
Inspection
It is the process of observation. Your eyes and nose are sensitive tools for gathering data.
Observe gait and stance and ease of movement.
Inspection includes
Color, moisture, odor, Hygiene, Clothes, making eye contact?
, Palpation
Involves the use of hands and fingers to gather info through the sense of touch.
When palpating use ulnar surface for
detecting vibration
Patient position for palpating abdominal organs?
Stand to the patients right side and have them lay in the supine position. Use palmar
surface of hand.
Percussion
involves striking one object against another to produce vibrations and subsequent
sound waves. Fingers function as a hammer. Sound waves are heard as percussion tones
(called resonance).
Percussion tone and density?
The denser the item percussed the quieter the percussion
-Tympany, hyperresonance, resonance, dullness, flatness
Tympany is the loudest and flatness is the quietest.
