-Use first four fingers together
-Depress about 1 cm
-Make gentle rotary motion, sliding the fingers and skin of abdomen together
-Lift fingers (don't drag) and move to next
clockwise location
-Expected finding: soft, nontender
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Light palpation of abdomen
Have the patient flex their neck.
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, How to locate C7 vertebrae?
A client states that she has recently been having difficulty swallowing, occasionally
causing coughing and choking. The nurse should document this as:
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dysphagia.
The saliva produced in the parotid gland is secreted through
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the Stensen duct.
Which of the following is true of occult blood?
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A negative response is normal.
Located in the Left Lower Quadrant
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, Colon
Which of the following describes the purpose of the tuning fork tests?
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helps distinguish conductive hearing loss from sensorineural hearing loss
condition characterized by white spots or patches on mucous membrane, which may
be precancerous
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Leukoplakia
The nurse is caring for a client who is hospitalized for a head trauma, and requires
frequent neurologic rechecks. Which of the following is one of the essential
components of the neurologic recheck?
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Level of consciousness.
are relatively rare with a poorly understood mechanism, but are always unilateral, and
tend to occur in groups of more than 1 per day.
-Depress about 1 cm
-Make gentle rotary motion, sliding the fingers and skin of abdomen together
-Lift fingers (don't drag) and move to next
clockwise location
-Expected finding: soft, nontender
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Light palpation of abdomen
Have the patient flex their neck.
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, How to locate C7 vertebrae?
A client states that she has recently been having difficulty swallowing, occasionally
causing coughing and choking. The nurse should document this as:
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dysphagia.
The saliva produced in the parotid gland is secreted through
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the Stensen duct.
Which of the following is true of occult blood?
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A negative response is normal.
Located in the Left Lower Quadrant
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, Colon
Which of the following describes the purpose of the tuning fork tests?
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helps distinguish conductive hearing loss from sensorineural hearing loss
condition characterized by white spots or patches on mucous membrane, which may
be precancerous
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Leukoplakia
The nurse is caring for a client who is hospitalized for a head trauma, and requires
frequent neurologic rechecks. Which of the following is one of the essential
components of the neurologic recheck?
Give this one a try later!
Level of consciousness.
are relatively rare with a poorly understood mechanism, but are always unilateral, and
tend to occur in groups of more than 1 per day.
