Which definitions appropriately identify the four examination ...

[RODY.ELKHALIL]

Which definitions appropriately identify the four examination techniques used by nurses during the assessment process?
 
  1. Palpation is visualizing, inspection is feeling or touching, percussion is hearing, and auscultation is tapping and listening.
  2. Palpation is touching, inspection is feeling, percussion is tapping and listening, and auscultation is listening.
  3. Palpation is touching, inspection is looking, percussion is tapping, and auscultation is listening.
  4. Palpation is tapping and listening, inspection is listening, percussion is touching, and auscultation is smelling.

Question 2

The nurse performing an assessment of the client's abdomen uses which of the four techniques of examination in order to collect data?
 
  1. Inspection and auscultation
  2. Inspection, auscultation, and palpation
  3. Inspection, auscultation, palpation, and percussion
  4. Auscultation, percussion, and inspection

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Answer to Question 1

Correct Answer: 3

Palpation is touching, feeling, or pressing on an area. Inspection involves visualizing. Percussion requires gentle tapping to listen for the returned sound. Auscultation is listening with or without an instrument such as a stethoscope.

Answer to Question 2

Correct Answer: 3
The nurse inspects the abdomen for appearance, auscultates for bowel sounds, palpates to determine organ location, and percusses. To use fewer than all four of these techniques would return less-than-complete data.