Answer to Question 1
ANS: B
Percussion involves tapping the patient's skin with short, sharp strokes that cause a vibration to travel through the skin and to the upper layers of the underlying structures. Inspection involves the use of vision, hearing, and smell to closely scrutinize physical characteristics of a whole person and individual body systems. Palpation uses touch to assess body organs and skin texture, temperature, moisture, turgor, tenderness, and thickness. Auscultation is a technique of listening with the assistance of a stethoscope to sounds made by organs or systems such as the heart, blood vessels, lungs, and abdominal cavity. Vibration is reflected by the tissues, and the character of the sound heard depends on the density of the structures that reflect the sound.
Answer to Question 2
ANS: D
If a patient being admitted to the hospital is too ill to interact for an extended period, the interview can be broken into smaller segments. Interviews with patients already hospitalized or established in the health care system are less extensive and more focused on newly identified patient concerns or problems. Ensuring that the patient is comfortable and relaxed is a priority and often takes prior thought and planning by the nurse.
The patient interview often requires note taking.
The nurse needs to inform the patient with impaired vision when a touch is to occur and ask permissi
B, The nurse teaches the postoperative client to use an incentive spirometer to expand the lungs.
It is important to act concerned when a patient is upset.
Performing Transmission-Based Precaution: Isolation Techniques
Orientation and structure of a nephron, the functional unit of the kidney.