NURS 301 Health Assessment Exam #3 | 2025-2026 LATEST UPDATED | ACTUAL
EXAM QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS | 100% RATED CORRECT | 100%
VERFIED SOLTIONS | ALREADY GRADED A+
1. What order should you assess the abdomen?: inspect, auscultate, palpate
2. What is found in the RUQ?: Liver, gallbladder, duodenum, head of pancreas,
right adrenal gland, portion of right kidney, portions of ascending and transverse
colon
3. What is found in the RLQ?: cecum, appendix, right ovary and tube, right
ureter, right spermatic cord
4. What is found in the LUQ?: Stomach, spleen, pancreas, left adrenal gland,
part of the transverse and descending colon, left lobe of the liver, left kidney
5. What is found in the LLQ?: Sigmoid colon, descending colon, left ovary and
tube, left spermatic cord, left ureter
6. What is another name for the gastrointestinal tract?: Alimentary canal 7.
What is the function of the stomach?: Digestion by stomach acids and enzymes
such as pepsin
8. What does digested food become?: Chyme
,9. What sphincter allows the chyme to enter the small intestine?: Pyloric
sphincter
10. What are the parts of the small intestine?: Duodenum, jejunum, ileum
11. What assist the small intestine in the process of digestion?: Villi
12. What is the first main part of the large intestine?: Cecum
13. What are the four parts of the colon?: ascending, transverse, descending,
sigmoid
14. What is the second largest organ in the body?: Liver
15. What is the function of the liver?: Storage of minerals and vitamins,
protection of bacteria, detoxification, and the storage and release of glycogen
from carbs and metabolized proteins.
16. What does the liver produce?: Clotting factors and bile
17. What is the purpose of bile?: break down fats
18. Where is the gallbladder?: under the liver (RUQ)
19. Where is the pancreas?: behind the stomach (LUQ)
20. What are the two glands of the pancreas?: Exocrine and endocrine
21. What do exocrine glands in the pancreas secrete?: Enzymes for digestion
, 22. What do endocrine glands in the pancreas secrete?: insulin and glucagon
23. What does the abdominal aorta break into?: Right and left iliac arteries
that become the femoral arteries
24. What is the function of the spleen?: Filters RBCs and produces lymphocytes
25. Where is the spleen?: Next to the liver (LUQ)
26. What are the physiological functions of the GI system?: Motility, absorption,
secretion, elimination, digestion
27. What is motility?: movement of material in the GI tract as a result of peristalsis
28 What is peristalsis?: the involuntary constriction and relaxation of the
muscles of the intestine that push the contents of the canal forward.
29. Where does the digestion start?: Salivary enzymes and chewing
30. What does the small intestine absorb?: nutrients
31. What does the large intestine absorb?: water, vitamins, minerals
32. What is type 1 poop?: Separate, hard lumps
33. What is type 2 poop?: Solid, lumpy
34. What is type 3 poop?: Solid, smooth with cracks
35. What is type 4 poop?: Soft, worm like
36. What is type 5 poop?: Soft blobs, clear edges
EXAM QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS | 100% RATED CORRECT | 100%
VERFIED SOLTIONS | ALREADY GRADED A+
1. What order should you assess the abdomen?: inspect, auscultate, palpate
2. What is found in the RUQ?: Liver, gallbladder, duodenum, head of pancreas,
right adrenal gland, portion of right kidney, portions of ascending and transverse
colon
3. What is found in the RLQ?: cecum, appendix, right ovary and tube, right
ureter, right spermatic cord
4. What is found in the LUQ?: Stomach, spleen, pancreas, left adrenal gland,
part of the transverse and descending colon, left lobe of the liver, left kidney
5. What is found in the LLQ?: Sigmoid colon, descending colon, left ovary and
tube, left spermatic cord, left ureter
6. What is another name for the gastrointestinal tract?: Alimentary canal 7.
What is the function of the stomach?: Digestion by stomach acids and enzymes
such as pepsin
8. What does digested food become?: Chyme
,9. What sphincter allows the chyme to enter the small intestine?: Pyloric
sphincter
10. What are the parts of the small intestine?: Duodenum, jejunum, ileum
11. What assist the small intestine in the process of digestion?: Villi
12. What is the first main part of the large intestine?: Cecum
13. What are the four parts of the colon?: ascending, transverse, descending,
sigmoid
14. What is the second largest organ in the body?: Liver
15. What is the function of the liver?: Storage of minerals and vitamins,
protection of bacteria, detoxification, and the storage and release of glycogen
from carbs and metabolized proteins.
16. What does the liver produce?: Clotting factors and bile
17. What is the purpose of bile?: break down fats
18. Where is the gallbladder?: under the liver (RUQ)
19. Where is the pancreas?: behind the stomach (LUQ)
20. What are the two glands of the pancreas?: Exocrine and endocrine
21. What do exocrine glands in the pancreas secrete?: Enzymes for digestion
, 22. What do endocrine glands in the pancreas secrete?: insulin and glucagon
23. What does the abdominal aorta break into?: Right and left iliac arteries
that become the femoral arteries
24. What is the function of the spleen?: Filters RBCs and produces lymphocytes
25. Where is the spleen?: Next to the liver (LUQ)
26. What are the physiological functions of the GI system?: Motility, absorption,
secretion, elimination, digestion
27. What is motility?: movement of material in the GI tract as a result of peristalsis
28 What is peristalsis?: the involuntary constriction and relaxation of the
muscles of the intestine that push the contents of the canal forward.
29. Where does the digestion start?: Salivary enzymes and chewing
30. What does the small intestine absorb?: nutrients
31. What does the large intestine absorb?: water, vitamins, minerals
32. What is type 1 poop?: Separate, hard lumps
33. What is type 2 poop?: Solid, lumpy
34. What is type 3 poop?: Solid, smooth with cracks
35. What is type 4 poop?: Soft, worm like
36. What is type 5 poop?: Soft blobs, clear edges
