A patient is reporting sharp pain along the costovertebral angles. What does this symptom most often indicate?

When assessing the abdomen most health care providers divide the abdomen into how many sections?

When performing the corneal light reflex assessment, the nurse notes that the light is reflected at 2 o'clock in each eye. The nurse should:

The nurse gave a client an instruction sheet for a colonoscopy. The client held the instructions approximately 18 inches from their face and read the description of the procedure aloud. The nurse recognizes that the client

A patient's vision is recorded as 20/30 when the Snellen eye chart is used. The nurse interprets these results to indicate that:

A 70-year-old patient tells the nurse that he has noticed that he is having trouble hearing, especially in large groups. He says that he "can't always tell where the sound is coming from" and the words often sound "mixed up." What might the nurse suspect as the cause for this change?

A nurse is precepting a new graduate nurse on the telemetry unit. The new graduate nurse is preparing to perform an abdominal assessment on a hospitalized client without a history of gastrointestinal abnormalities. Click to indicate the corresponding number for each of the following assessment techniques in order of performance.

A patient has been diagnosed with venous stasis. Which of these findings would the nurse most likely observe?

A nurse is educating a patient regarding arterial insufficiency. The nurse knows the patient has a correct understanding of arterial risk factors by listing the following:

Which of the following should the nurse perform to assess the arterial function of the lower extremities?

When auscultating over a patient's femoral arteries, the nurse notices the presence of a bruit on the left side. The nurse knows that bruits: