The nurse is performing an assessment on an adult. The adult's vital signs are normal, and capillary refill time is 5 seconds. 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

The nurse is performing an assessment on an adult. The adult's vital signs are normal, and capillary refill time is 5 seconds. What should the nurse do next?

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

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.

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During an eye examination, a client tells a nurse that their left eye feels dry and itchy and has noticed a lot of tearing. The nurse notices that the client's left lower eyelid is rolled out with exposure of the palpebral conjunctiva. The nurse would document these findings as:

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

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?

During an assessment of a 20-year-old Asian patient, the nurse notices that he has dry, flaky cerumen in his canal. What is the significance of this finding? This finding:

When performing a peripheral vascular assessment of the lower extremities, a nurse should place the fingertips just posterior to the medial malleolus in order to assess for which of the following peripheral pulses?

The nurse suspects that a patient has appendicitis. Which of these procedures are appropriate for use when assessing for appendicitis or a perforated appendix? (Select all that apply)