The nurse is assessing a 79-year-old client’s posterior thorax during a focused respiratory assessment. The nurse should attribute what assessment finding to age related changes?  

A nurse is attempting to view a whole family as a unit to obtain a view of the family composition. How can the nurse best achieve this goal?

A nurse is integrating health promotion education into the assessment of a client’s mouth, nose, and throat. What interview question is most likely to identify a risk factor for oral cancer?

A nurse teaches a male client how to perform testicular self-examination. The nurse should instruct the client to perform the self-examination at which frequency?

Provider order: fenofibrate 144 mg p.o daily. Available: (see label) How many tablets will the nurse administer?  _______

The nurse is using the mnemonic OLD CARTS to assess a client’s complaint of lower abdominal pain. The nurse asks the client to rate the pain on a scale of 0 to 10. The nurse is assessing which aspect of the complaint?

The nurse is using the OLD CARTS mnemonic to assess a client’s history of chest pain. What interview question addresses the “A” in this assessment model?

A nurse is reviewing the four basic physical examination techniques and their sequence prior to completing an assessment. The nurse should plan to perform which technique first?

A nurse is planning a health promotion campaign that will focus on cancer prevention. Which educational intervention should the nurse select in order to most influence participants’ risks of head and neck cancers?

After teaching a group of students about families and family assessment, the instructor determines that the teaching was successful when the students describe family as which of the following?