A senior patient is being admitted due to lobar pneumonia to the med-surgical floor. When auscultating, the nurse would expect to listen to which of the following adventitious breath sounds?

Which type of assessment includes a health history and physical assessment?

The nurse is preparing to auscultate the lung sounds of a young adult. Which sound will the nurse expect to hear over most of the client's lungs?

While inspecting the external eye of a client, the nurse notes that the client's right eyelid droops. Which term would the nurse use to document this finding?

The nurse is assessing an older adult client at a hospice unit. The client cannot speak or communicate, but the client's daughter is there and answers all the questions as best as she can. What type of data source is the daughter?

The nurse instructs a female client on breast self-examination. Why does the nurse recommend the pattern shown for the client to use?

During the physical assessment of the peripheral vascular system, a client's foot is pale when elevated and dark red when in the dependent position. The nurse is concerned that this client is at risk for developing:

The nurse would palpate the axillae during examination of which area?

Use of tobacco products and excessive alcohol consumption are principal risk factors for oral carcinoma.

Data collection occurs where in the nursing process?

A patient is unable to taste in the 2/3 anterior of his tongue. Which cranial nerve is affected?