Health Assessment Test 5 Questions and Answers Latest Update 2023

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Health Assessment Test 5 Questions and Answers Latest Update 2023.The physician comments that a patient has abdominal borborygmi. The nurse knows that this term refers to: -Correct Answer= Hyperactiv... e bowel sounds A 52 year-old patient states then when she sneezes or coughs she "wets herself a little". She is very concerned something may be wrong with her. The nurse suspects that the problem is: -Correct Answer= Stress incontinence A 70-year old woman tells the nurse that every time she gets up in the morning or after she's been sitting she gets "really dizzy" and feels like she is going to fall over. The nurse's best response would be: - Correct Answer= "You need to get up slowly when you've been lying or sitting " During an assessment of the cranial nerves, the nurse finds the following: asymmetry when the patient smiles or frowns, uneven lifting of the eyebrows, sagging go the lower eyelids, and escape of air when the nurse presses against right puffed cheek. This would be dysfunction of which of the cranial nerves? - Correct Answer= Motor Component of VII While examining a patient, the nurse observes abdominal pulsations between the xiphoid and umbilicus. The nurse would expect that there are: -Correct Answer= Normal abdominal aortic pulsations The nurse suspects that a patient has carpal tunnel syndrome and wants to perform the Phalen's test. To perform this test, the nurse should instruct the patient to: -Correct Answer= Hold both hands back to back while flexing the wrists 90 degrees for 60 seconds An 11 year-old girl is in the clinic for a sports physical. The nurse notices that she has begun to develop breasts, and during the conversation the girl reveals she is worried about her development. The nurse should use which of these techniques to best assist the young girl in understanding the expected sequence for development. The nurse should: -Correct Answer= Use the Tanner's table on the five steps of sexual development [Show More]

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