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Which technique would the nurse use to perform scoliosis screening in a school-age child?

A nurse is performing an admission assessment on a client. Which finding should the nurse identify as an indication that the client is dehydrated?

The nurse in the clinic is preparing to perform a physical assessment on a client who arrived for a routine check-up. Before beginning the assessment, which four activities should the nurse carry out? (Select all that apply.)

When assessing the elbow, a nurse asks a client to hold the arm out and turn the palm down. When the client performs this maneuver, the nurse is testing what?

Which finding should the nurse expect when assessing a client who is cyanotic?

The nurse is teaching a group of unlicensed assistive personnel about the stethoscope. Which statements about the stethoscope are appropriate for the nurse to include in the teaching session? (Select all that apply.)

A nurse is assessing a client with a history of heart failure who presents with severe edema in the lower extremities. The nurse would document the presence of +4 pitting edema after noting which finding?

A nurse is assessing a client's radial pulse and determines that the pulse is irregular. Which action should the nurse take?

While performing an abdominal assessment on a patient, the nurse notes an abdomen shape similar to the rounded abdomen only greater. This contour is anticipated in pregnancy and seen in adults with ascites and obesity. What term should the nurse use to document this finding?

A patient with a history of duodenal ulcer is admitted to the emergency department with reports of pain. The nurse should assess for this pain by palpating in which abdominal quadrant?

A nurse in an emergency department is caring for a client who has abdominal pain.

Nurses' Notes 

0800: Client reports abdominal pain that began the previous evening. Client is two weeks postoperative from a right knee replacement. Reports taking 3 to 4 hydrocodone tablets daily for postoperative pain. Has not had bowel movement in 4 days. Reports not drinking many fluids to avoid having "to get up and go to the bathroom so often because it hurts to walk."

0830: Client taken for abdominal x-ray. Partner reports that client has not been following physical therapist's exercise regimen of walking several times daily.

0915: Fecal mass of hard, dry stool removed digitally from client per provider's order.

1015: Provided teaching to client and partner about constipation and methods to avoid further impaction.

Diagnostic Results

0900:

Abdominal x-ray: Large amount of fecal material throughout the colon with rectal impaction. No evidence of small bowel obstruction.

A nurse is providing teaching to a client who has constipation. Which information should the nurse include? (Select all that apply.)