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.
Taking a Patient's Blood Pressure
A, A nurse is adding a medication to an IV line as a piggyback
Urinary catheterization. The procedure involves the insertion of a flexible tube, or catheter, throu
Lung cancer. Photograph of part of a lung removed after death. The yellow area is a large tumor and
Nurse palpating the patient's brachial artery
A goniometer is used to measure range of motion of the patient’s arm.