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

Which of the following is the first important step in helping the patient to relax for the complete abdominal examination?

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 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:

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

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?

When assessing the pupillary light reflex or PERRL (pupils, round, reactive to light), the nurse should use which technique?

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

A 45-year-old man is in the clinic for a physical examination. During the abdominal assessment, the nurse percusses the abdomen and notices an area of dullness above the right costal margin of approximately 11 cm. How should the nurse proceed?

The nurse is testing a patient's visual accommodation, which refers to which action?

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: