Exam 3: NUR101 / NUR 101(Latest
2024 / 2025 Update) Health Assessment | Guide with Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A – Fortis
Question:
How to do dorsalis pedis pulse
Answer:
Very light touch, normally lateral and parallel with the extensor tendon of the big toe.
Question:
Pitting edema Scale
Answer:
1+ Mild pitting, slight indentation, no perceptible swelling 2+ Moderate pitting, indentation subsides rapidly 3+ Deep pitting, indentation remains, leg looks swollen 4+ Very deep pitting, indentation lasts long time, leg very swollen
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Question:
The doppler ultrasonic probe
Answer:
Use this device to detect a weak peripheral pulse, to measure low blood pressure or blood pressure in lower extremity Doppler probe magnifies pulsatile sounds from heart and blood vessels Position person supine, with legs externally rotated so you can reach medial ankles easily Place drop of coupling gel on end of handheld transducer Place transducer over pulse site, swiveled at a 90-degree angle; apply very light pressure; locate pulse site by the swishing, whooshing sound
Question:
Bowel sounds
Answer:
5-30 sound/min=normal more than 30 sounds/min- hyperactive
If absent you have to listen for 5 min per quadrant
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Question:
Right Upper Quadrant (RUQ)
Answer:
liver gallbladder duodenum head of pancreas right kidney and adrenal hepatic flexure of colon park of ascending and transverse colon
Question:
Left Upper Quadrant (LUQ)
Answer:
stomach spleen left lobe of liver body of pancreas left kidney and adrenal splenic flexure of colon part of transverse and descending colon
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Question:
Right Lower Quadrant (RLQ)
Answer:
Cecum Appendix Right ovary and tube Right ureter Right spermatic corad
Question:
Left Lower Quadrant (LLQ)
Answer:
Part of descending colon Sigmoid colon Left ovary and tube Left ureter Left spermatic cord
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