NURS 6512N Week 7 QUIZ – Question and Answers

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NURS 6512N Week 7 QUIZ – Question and Answers What is considered the gold standard diagnostic radiology test for appendicitis? Pulsusparadoxus greater than 20 mm Hg, tachycardia greater than 130... beats per minute, and increasing dyspnea are signs of: A 5-year-old is complaining of nondescriptive “belly pain.” Your next action should be to ask him to: You are caring for a patient with trigeminal neuralgia. During the assessment, the patient would describe the pain as: Ms. Green is an 85-year-old female patient with dementia who presents to the emergency department with her daughter because of a change in function. Which pain assessment scale would be the best choice? Body language that leads you to suspect the person is in pain is: You ask the patient to raise the head and shoulders while lying in a supine position. A midline abdominal ridge rises. You chart this observation as a(n): When auscultating the abdomen, which finding would indicate collateral circulation between the portal and systemic venous systems? [Show More]

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