1|Page
Wilkes NSG500 Exam 1 /NSG 500 Advanced
Health Assessment Exam 1 Newest 2025/2026
With Complete Questions And Correct Answers
|Already Graded A+||Brand New Version!|
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;
,2|Page
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?
, 3|Page
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.
Auscultation
Listening to sounds, Stethoscope
Wilkes NSG500 Exam 1 /NSG 500 Advanced
Health Assessment Exam 1 Newest 2025/2026
With Complete Questions And Correct Answers
|Already Graded A+||Brand New Version!|
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;
,2|Page
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?
, 3|Page
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.
Auscultation
Listening to sounds, Stethoscope
