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

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

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

The nurse is reviewing in age-related changes in the eye for a class. Which of these physiologic changes is responsible for presbyopia?

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.

The nurse preceptor reminds the new graduate nurse of normal and abnormal findings.

Click to indicate whether the findings listed below are normal or abnormal.

During an abdominal assessment, the nurse tests for a fluid wave. What condition would produce a positive fluid wave test?

A patient has been admitted after an accident at work. During the assessment, the patient is having trouble hearing and states, "I don't know what the matter is. All of a sudden, I can't hear you out of my left ear!" What should the nurse do next?

Peripheral Vascular

A 65-year-old patient is experiencing pain in his left calf when he exercises that disappears after resting for a few minutes.

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The nurse recognizes that this description is most consistent with

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

A nurse performs the Weber test on a healthy adult client. The nurse would expect which of the following normal finding?

The nurse is performing an otoscopic examination on an adult. Which of these actions is correct?