A client presents with an infection of the forearm and hand. The nurse should expect what lymph nodes to be swollen on assessment:

During palpation of the anterior chest wall, the nurse notices a coarse, crackling sensation over the skin surface. On the basis of these findings, the nurse suspects:

A patient's thyroid gland is enlarged, and the nurse is preparing to auscultate the gland for the presence of a bruit. What technique should the nurse use to assess for a bruit?

The nurse just noted from the medical record that the patient has a lesion that is confluent in nature. On examination, the nurse expects to find:

What component of the conduction system is referred to as the pacemaker of the heart?

During an assessment, the nurse knows that expected assessment findings in the normal adult lung include the presence of:

The nurse has just completed a lymph node assessment on a healthy 40-year-old female patient. Which of the following is an expected finding?

A nurse is auscultating the aortic area and knows it is in which of the following areas:

A nurse in an emergency department (ED) is admitting a client.

Select 4 findings in the client's medical record that place them at risk for pneumonia.

A 92-year-old patient has had a stroke. The right side of his face is drooping. The nurse might also suspect which of these assessment findings?

Skin Assessment

Highlight the abnormal findings that the nurse should be concerned about. Select all that apply.

A 40-year-old woman reports a change in mole size, accompanied by color changes, itching, burning, and bleeding over the past month. She has a dark complexion and has no family history of skin cancer, but she has had many blistering sunburns in the past.