A patient's feet appear to be edematous, so the nurse first
1. Charts, Patient's feet appear to be swollen.
2. Percusses the tissue that appears edematous.
3. Applies pressure over a bony prominence of the foot for 2 seconds.
4. Elevates the patient's feet on a pillow to decrease swelling.
Question 2
A stable male patient, who was just admitted for left-lower-lobe pneumonia, tells the nurse that his cough is nonproductive. When assessing the patient's breath sounds, the nurse suspects consolidation when, over the left lower lobe, she detects
1. Rales.
2. Absent breath sounds.
3. Stridor.
4. Rhonchi.
Tattoos and Body Piercings: This patient developed cellulitis from tattoo ink
Stained section of cerebral cortex from autopsy of a patient with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Preparing the Patient’s Skin for Surgical Procedures
Oral pseudo membraneous candidiasis in a patient with AIDS.
Massage the feet. Finish with light connecting strokes over the entire leg. Redrape the leg.
A container in the shape of a right circular cylinder with no top has surface area square feet.