Chap 20- Health history and physical assessment

Question 1

What are the four assessment techniques used to complete a comprehensive physical examination?

Answer 1

Inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation.

Question 2

Assessment technique that involves the use of vision and smell to closely examine physical characteristics of a whole person and individual body systems.

Answer 2

Inspection

Question 3

Assessment technique that uses touch to assess body organs and skin texture, temperature, moisture, turgor, tenderness, and thickness.

Answer 3

Palpation

Question 4

Crackling or rubbing that can be that can be detected through palpation.

Answer 4

Crepitation (crepitus)

Question 5

What should a nurse ask patient and look for during palpation?

Answer 5

Are there any areas that are sensitive or painful? Note any nonverbal signs of distress or discomfort that patient may feel.

Question 6

Something a patient does in which they position themselves to prevent movement of a painful body part.

Answer 6

Guarding

Question 7

Discomfort experienced after stimulation is discontinued is called __________.

Answer 7

Rebound tenderness

Question 8

Deep palpation is used to examine what?

Answer 8

Organ structures