Exam IV Study Guide Health Assessment | 50 Questions with 100% Correct Answers | Updated 2023

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Before you begin auscultating heart sounds, inform the patient: "I always listen to the heart in a number of places on the chest." To assess the dorsalis pedis artery, you would palpate: later... al to the extensor tendon of the great toe. In performing auscultation of heart sounds, which sequence would you use? Aortic area - pulmonic area - Erb's point - tricuspid area - mitral area During an assessment, the nurse notes that a patient's left arm is swollen from the shoulder down to the fingers, with nonpitting edema. The right arm is normal. The patient had a mastectomy one year ago. The nurse suspects which problem: lymphedema [Show More]

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