Author Question: While performing a focused assessment, a nurse listens to a patient's heart and lung sounds. This is ... (Read 55 times)

jman1234 · **on:** Jul 22, 2018

While performing a focused assessment, a nurse listens to a patient's heart and lung sounds. This is an example of an assessment technique called

1. Palpation.
2. Inspection.
3. Percussion.
4. Auscultation.

Question 2

While caring for a newly admitted patient, a registered nurse (RN) gathers information by interviewing the patient to obtain a health history and reviewing the results of laboratory and diagnostic tests.

This step in the nursing process is called
1. Planning.
2. Evaluation.
3. Assessment.
4. Implementation.