The nurse examines a client’s right great toe.

The joint is red, edematous, and very painful with limited range of motion. The client’s serum uric acid levels are elevated.

Which action should the nurse tell the client to make?

When systematically auscultating a client’s anterior breath sounds, the nurse should begin by placing the stethoscope over which location?

Which skill should the nurse have an older client demonstrate to evaluate the ability to perform activities of daily living (ADL)?

An adult client presents with gnawing epigastric pain.

The pain is worse when the client is hungry and abates after eating something.

Which problem do these symptoms suggest?

While interviewing a newly admitted older female client, the nurse observes that the client ignores Questions asked by the nurse, and speaks loudly to her son who brought her to the hospital.

Which action should the nurse implement first?

The nurse is performing an admission assessment for a client with pyelonephritis who has urgency and burning while urinating.

Which finding indicates an expected response when the nurse percusses the costovertebral angle?

An older adult male arrives at the healthcare center with lower abdominal discomfort and frequent urination. The nurse asks the client to provide a urine sample.After an extended period of time, the client returns with only a few drops of urine. Which action should the nurse implement?

While completing a health assessment for a client being admitted with bilateral pneumonia, the nurse asks the client to describe the sputum.

Which communication technique should the nurse use to obtain this information?

In assessing tactile fremitus in the client with suspected pneumonia, the nurse should perform which action?

The nurse asks a female client about the proverb “Glass Houses,” and she replies, “It will break the windows.”. Which conclusion should be documented about this client’s response?

The nurse applies pressure over an area of the lower abdomen where the client reports pain. The client denies pain upon palpation but reports pain when the pressure is released.

Which action should the nurse implement?