NURS 190 Final Exams Study Guide 2025: Nursing Fundamentals Practice Questions

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FINAL EXAMS: NURS190 / NURS 190 (LATEST 2025 /

2026 UPDATES STUDY BUNDLE PACKAGE WITH

SOLUTIONS) PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT| QUESTIONS

AND ANSWERS | GRADE A | 100% CORRECT - WEST

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the order of health and physical assessment

.....ANSWER.....inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation

order of health and physical assessment for the abdomen

.....ANSWER.....inspect, auscultation, percussion, palpation

inspection .....ANSWER.....general observation of the patient as a

whole, progressing to specific body areas

palpation .....ANSWER.....an examination technique in which the

examiner's hands are used to feel the texture, size, consistency,

and location of certain body parts

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palmar aspect .....ANSWER.....used to determine position

,consistency, texture, size of structure ,pain, and tenderness

dorsal surface of hand .....ANSWER.....most sensitive to

temperature

finger pads .....ANSWER.....use for discrimination of underlying

structures and functions such as pulses superficial lymph nodes or

crepitus

ulnar surface of hand .....ANSWER.....most sensitive to vibration

light palpation .....ANSWER.....the safest least uncomfortable

method and allows the patient to become accustomed to the

nurses touch

assess surface characteristics such as skin texture pulse or tender

inflamed area near the surface of the skin

depth of 1 cm

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deep palpation .....ANSWER.....palpating the abdomen and

organs that lie deep within a body cavity when overlying

musculature is thick tends origin such as an obesity or with

abdominal guarding

depth of 2 cm to 4 cm

percussion .....ANSWER.....a diagnostic procedure designed to

determine the density of a body part by the sound produced by

tapping the surface with the fingers

direct percussion .....ANSWER.....technique of tapping the body

with fingertips of the dominant hand

used on sinuses of adult or thorax of infants

blunt percussion .....ANSWER.....place in the palm of nondominant

hand flat against the body surface and striking the non-dominant

hand with the dominant hand with a closed fist to deliver a blow

used on assessing gallbladder, liver, and kidney

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indirect percussion .....ANSWER.....using hammer or tip of finger

as a plexor to produce sound

abdomen .....ANSWER.....tympanic sound: loud high pitched drum-

like tone occurs

lungs .....ANSWER.....resonance sound: loud low pitched hollow

tone occurs

hyperresonance sound: abnormally loud low pitched tone occurs

dense organs .....ANSWER.....dullness sound: high pitched soft and

short occurs

bones .....ANSWER.....flatness sound: high pitched tone very soft

and short occurs

auscultation .....ANSWER.....listening to sounds within the body

with a stethoscope

pain assessment .....ANSWER.....o: onset

l : location