A nurse in a provider's office is preparing to auscultate and percuss a client’s thorax as part of a comprehensive physical examination. Which of the following are considered normal findings? Select all that apply

A nurse is examining a patient and finds a lesion that is a linear arrangement along a unilateral nerve route. The nurse would document this finding as

A client is brought to the emergency department by ambulance after being involved in a motor vehicle accident. The nurse finds that he has decreased breath sounds over the left lung fields. What might the nurse suspect is the cause?

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 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?

The nurse is assessing a lesion on a patient and observes a focal loss of epidermis and dermis, a depression extending into the dermis, irregularly shaped, and bleeding. This type of wound is known as a/an

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:

Mrs. Helms is sitting on the side of the bed, leaning forward, with her arms on the bedside table. What would this indicate to you?

During a cardiac assessment of a client you observed jugular vein distension, and auscultated $3 gallop heart sound. These findings most likely suggest which of the following conditions?

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.