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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; 1 / 3
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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? 2 / 3
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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
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