Nursing Fundamentals Head to Toe
Assessment Questions & Answer
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Before a nurse palpates a person's scalp what is the very first action they should take?
A. preform hand hygiene
, ask the client how their hair feels
B. go ahead and inspect the client's scalp
C. go right ahead and palpate client's scalp with bare hands. - CORRECT ANSWER//A.
preform hand hygiene
When it comes to hand hygiene and your client you should always do what?
A. inform client you've washed your hands
B. wear gloves so they don't worry
C. wash hands in patient's presence
D. wash hands outside patient's room - CORRECT ANSWER//C. wash hands in
patient's presence
Nurse Rain is assessing his client's scalp after putting on clean gloves he begins to
palpate the hair which of the following things would he be looking for? (select all that
apply)
A. hair color
B. hair texture
C. hair distribution
D. Lice, alopecia
E. carcinomas of the skin - CORRECT ANSWER//a,b,c,d
Which of the following would not be considered normal findings when assessing the
scalp and hair of a middle aged man?
A. thinning hair
B. receding hair line
C. alopecia
D. Lice - CORRECT ANSWER//c,d
When palpating the client's temporal artery what should a nurse remember to do?
A. state the depth
B. state the location
C. state the temperature
D. state the force - CORRECT ANSWER//D. state the force
Which would be a normal observation for a nurse stating the force of a temporal artery?
A. +1
B. +3
C. +4
D. +2 - CORRECT ANSWER//D. +2
Nurse Joan asks her client Freedy to clench his jaw as she continues to palpate his
head. When she asks him to do this what is Nurse Joan most likely trying to palpate?
Assessment Questions & Answer
latest version updates/verfied
Before a nurse palpates a person's scalp what is the very first action they should take?
A. preform hand hygiene
, ask the client how their hair feels
B. go ahead and inspect the client's scalp
C. go right ahead and palpate client's scalp with bare hands. - CORRECT ANSWER//A.
preform hand hygiene
When it comes to hand hygiene and your client you should always do what?
A. inform client you've washed your hands
B. wear gloves so they don't worry
C. wash hands in patient's presence
D. wash hands outside patient's room - CORRECT ANSWER//C. wash hands in
patient's presence
Nurse Rain is assessing his client's scalp after putting on clean gloves he begins to
palpate the hair which of the following things would he be looking for? (select all that
apply)
A. hair color
B. hair texture
C. hair distribution
D. Lice, alopecia
E. carcinomas of the skin - CORRECT ANSWER//a,b,c,d
Which of the following would not be considered normal findings when assessing the
scalp and hair of a middle aged man?
A. thinning hair
B. receding hair line
C. alopecia
D. Lice - CORRECT ANSWER//c,d
When palpating the client's temporal artery what should a nurse remember to do?
A. state the depth
B. state the location
C. state the temperature
D. state the force - CORRECT ANSWER//D. state the force
Which would be a normal observation for a nurse stating the force of a temporal artery?
A. +1
B. +3
C. +4
D. +2 - CORRECT ANSWER//D. +2
Nurse Joan asks her client Freedy to clench his jaw as she continues to palpate his
head. When she asks him to do this what is Nurse Joan most likely trying to palpate?
