NUR 216 Questions with 100% Correct Answers

NUR 216 Questions with 100% Correct
Answers
Abdoment


Assessment— Correct Answer: Inspection


Auscultation


Percussion


Palaption


Physical assessment preparation— Correct Answer: close curtain,


pt health history,


lying suspine


expose only the abdomen


Expected Finding abdomen— Correct Answer: flat


bilaterally


symmetrical


umbilium midline


smooth skin


Appendicitis— Correct Answer: When your appendix become sore, swollen and
diseased (RLQ)

, Test abdomen— Correct Answer: Blumbery ultrasound, MRI rebound tenderness


Hepatitis— Correct Answer: inflammation of the liver (RUQ)


Cholecystitis— Correct Answer: Inflammation of the cholecyst (gallbladder)
(RUQ)


Pancreatitis— Correct Answer: Inflammation of pancreas (LUQ)


Sigmoid Colonitis— Correct Answer: affects the rectum/Sigmoid colon (LLQ)


Ascites— Correct Answer: accumulation of fluid in the peritoneal cavity


Hernia— Correct Answer: intestines poke through abdominal muscles


Hypoactive Bowel Sounds— Correct Answer: Slow decrease sounds heard
through the abdominal wall


Cause?


constipation, ovstruction, side effects of medication


Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm— Correct Answer: bulge of swelling in th aorta, the
main blood vessel that runs form heart down through the chest and tummy


Visceral— Correct Answer: pain is dull, gnawing, cramping or burning: poorly
localized; and originates in the abdominal organs


Referred— Correct Answer: arises in one part of the abdomen sensory cortes via
nerve fibers


What is the difference between pain and tenderness— Correct Answer: Pain
already hurts