NSE 103 Scenarios Questions with
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Sc 1: Assess your partner's hands (not nails) for color (2 findings), temperature, and capillary
refill. Provide findings - Answer - HH + intro
- Permission to touch
- inspect hands "color on hands is even skin tone, no discoloration, color consistent with genetic
background"
- palpate temp of hands with dorsal of hand "temperature is warm and equal bilaterally
- palpate a few nails "good capillary refill, color returns in 1-2 seconds"
Assess your partner's skin turgor and assess moisture, texture, and thickness on arms. report 1
finding for each. - Answer - HH + intro
- Permission to touch
- client put arm up palm facing down
- pinch up skin on forearm "good skin mobility, easily return to place, no tenting"
- sleeve over shoulder, palpate down arm with fingertips of both hands "no moisture, texture is
smooth and even, no thickness of skin felt"
Assess your partner's fingernails for shape/contour (note 1 findings), consistency (note 2
findings), and the profile sign (note findings). - Answer - HH + intro
- Permission to touch
- palms facing down
- "nails are rounded and curved"
- palpate nail "nails are smooth with uniform thickness and firm nail base"
- nail side profile "angle of nail base is 160 degrees"
Name and palpate 8 lymph nodes of the head, face, and neck of your lab partner - Answer -
HH + intro
- Permission to touch
- preauricular, posterior auricular, occipital, submental, submandibular, tonsillar, superficial
cervical, deep cervical, posterior cervical, supraclavicular
Test the sensory function of cranial nerve V (trigeminal). Report and explain findings) - Answer
- HH + intro
- Permission to touch
- Cotton wisp test bilaterally
, - "equal sensation on both sides of face at forehead, cheeks, and chin, which shows normal
function of CN V"
Inspect the posterior thorax. Provide 6 findings. - Answer - HH + intro
- Permission to touch
- stand upright, expose back + permission
- drape
- "upright position, skin consistent with genetic background, no discolouration, no lesions,
thorax is symmetrical in elliptical shape, spinous processes are straight, downward sloping ribs,
anterior posterior to transverse diameter is 1:2"
- inspect neck muscles: "Trapezius muscles are symmetrical and appropriately developed for age
and occupation"
Palpate the posterior chest wall (provide 3 findings) and test for symmetrical expansion (provide
1 finding) - Answer - HH + intro
- Permission to touch
- drape
- palpate back right side up to don using fingers. Palpate left side up to down
- ask pt for pain/tenderness "no pain or tenderness, no moisture, lumps or masses, no lesions"
- palpate for temp "note temperature is warm and equal bilaterally"
- pinch a piece of skin at t9 - t10, take a big breath in "note that it posterior chest is symmetrical
expansion with no lag"
Auscultate the carotid arteries and name locations of auscultation sites. Provide findings -
Answer - HH + intro
- Permission to touch
- stand upright
- clean stethoscope
- instruct cx to deep breath in, out, and hold
- listen at angle of jaw, midcervical, and base of neck
- listen to other side of neck
- "no bruits heard"
Palpate the carotid arteries and provide 4 findings - Answer - HH + intro
- Permission to touch
- stand upright
- 1 side at a time
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Sc 1: Assess your partner's hands (not nails) for color (2 findings), temperature, and capillary
refill. Provide findings - Answer - HH + intro
- Permission to touch
- inspect hands "color on hands is even skin tone, no discoloration, color consistent with genetic
background"
- palpate temp of hands with dorsal of hand "temperature is warm and equal bilaterally
- palpate a few nails "good capillary refill, color returns in 1-2 seconds"
Assess your partner's skin turgor and assess moisture, texture, and thickness on arms. report 1
finding for each. - Answer - HH + intro
- Permission to touch
- client put arm up palm facing down
- pinch up skin on forearm "good skin mobility, easily return to place, no tenting"
- sleeve over shoulder, palpate down arm with fingertips of both hands "no moisture, texture is
smooth and even, no thickness of skin felt"
Assess your partner's fingernails for shape/contour (note 1 findings), consistency (note 2
findings), and the profile sign (note findings). - Answer - HH + intro
- Permission to touch
- palms facing down
- "nails are rounded and curved"
- palpate nail "nails are smooth with uniform thickness and firm nail base"
- nail side profile "angle of nail base is 160 degrees"
Name and palpate 8 lymph nodes of the head, face, and neck of your lab partner - Answer -
HH + intro
- Permission to touch
- preauricular, posterior auricular, occipital, submental, submandibular, tonsillar, superficial
cervical, deep cervical, posterior cervical, supraclavicular
Test the sensory function of cranial nerve V (trigeminal). Report and explain findings) - Answer
- HH + intro
- Permission to touch
- Cotton wisp test bilaterally
, - "equal sensation on both sides of face at forehead, cheeks, and chin, which shows normal
function of CN V"
Inspect the posterior thorax. Provide 6 findings. - Answer - HH + intro
- Permission to touch
- stand upright, expose back + permission
- drape
- "upright position, skin consistent with genetic background, no discolouration, no lesions,
thorax is symmetrical in elliptical shape, spinous processes are straight, downward sloping ribs,
anterior posterior to transverse diameter is 1:2"
- inspect neck muscles: "Trapezius muscles are symmetrical and appropriately developed for age
and occupation"
Palpate the posterior chest wall (provide 3 findings) and test for symmetrical expansion (provide
1 finding) - Answer - HH + intro
- Permission to touch
- drape
- palpate back right side up to don using fingers. Palpate left side up to down
- ask pt for pain/tenderness "no pain or tenderness, no moisture, lumps or masses, no lesions"
- palpate for temp "note temperature is warm and equal bilaterally"
- pinch a piece of skin at t9 - t10, take a big breath in "note that it posterior chest is symmetrical
expansion with no lag"
Auscultate the carotid arteries and name locations of auscultation sites. Provide findings -
Answer - HH + intro
- Permission to touch
- stand upright
- clean stethoscope
- instruct cx to deep breath in, out, and hold
- listen at angle of jaw, midcervical, and base of neck
- listen to other side of neck
- "no bruits heard"
Palpate the carotid arteries and provide 4 findings - Answer - HH + intro
- Permission to touch
- stand upright
- 1 side at a time
