NSE 13A/B Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Sit-Up, Food Intolerance, Pubic Hair
16 Mar 2019
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Introduction of first and last name: hand hygiene, permission to touch, ensure confidentiality, pull curtains. General survey: awake alert, ask them to state first and last name, speech is clear, posture is erect, no distress, looks stated age. Health history - 3 subjective data: any nausea and vomiting , last time you had a bowel movement, have you ever had surgery on the abdomen, any food intolerance, family history of irritable bowel?l. Painful area is done last - make note of it. Inspect: start on the right, bend down and look over there shoulder, look across the abdomen look diagonally from the lower left quadrant - make sure to bend down. Contour: stand the patient side and look down the abdomen, head should be higher than the abdomen. Determine the profile of the rib margin to the pubic bone. Contour describes nutritional state ranges from flat to round.
