Author Question: The nurse is assessing a client for circumduction. To complete this assessment, the nurse would: ... (Read 55 times)

skymedlock · **on:** Jul 22, 2018

The nurse is assessing a client for circumduction. To complete this assessment, the nurse would:

a. ask the client to move her leg backward in a circle.
b. turn the client's foot and leg inward, pointing the toes toward the other leg.
c. move the client's head in order to touch her ear to the shoulder.
d. raise the client's straight arm forward to a position above her head.

Question 2

The nurse is assessing a client's ability to move an extremity laterally and away from the midline of the body. The nurse is assessing for:

a. flexion. c. adduction.
b. extension. d. abduction.