Health Assessment

Chest & Abdomen Assessment (8)

Health Assessment, part 37: Bowel Sounds & Additional Assessments

Health Assessment, part 37: Bowel Sounds & Additional Assessments

Meris Shuwarger BSN, RN, CEN, TCRN

Expected and unexpected findings when auscultating bowel sounds, along with how to assess for rebound tenderness, Murphy's sign, and McBurney's point.

Health Assessment, part 37: Bowel Sounds & Additional Assessments

Meris Shuwarger BSN, RN, CEN, TCRN

Expected and unexpected findings when auscultating bowel sounds, along with how to assess for rebound tenderness, Murphy's sign, and McBurney's point.

Health Assessment, part 36: Abdominal Assessment

Health Assessment, part 36: Abdominal Assessment

Meris Shuwarger BSN, RN, CEN, TCRN

Components of the abdominal assessment, including how to auscultate the bowel sounds and how to palpate the abdomen.

Health Assessment, part 36: Abdominal Assessment

Meris Shuwarger BSN, RN, CEN, TCRN

Components of the abdominal assessment, including how to auscultate the bowel sounds and how to palpate the abdomen.

Health Assessment, part 35: Heart Sounds

Health Assessment, part 35: Heart Sounds

Meris Shuwarger BSN, RN, CEN, TCRN

How to assess the heart, including how to use the diaphragm and bell of a stethoscope, auscultating the aortic valve, pulmonic valve, Erb's point, tricuspid valve, and mitral valve. Expected...

Health Assessment, part 35: Heart Sounds

Meris Shuwarger BSN, RN, CEN, TCRN

How to assess the heart, including how to use the diaphragm and bell of a stethoscope, auscultating the aortic valve, pulmonic valve, Erb's point, tricuspid valve, and mitral valve. Expected...

Health Assessment, part 34: Whispered Pectoriloquy & Egophony

Health Assessment, part 34: Whispered Pectoriloquy & Egophony

Meris Shuwarger BSN, RN, CEN, TCRN

Additional lung assessments, including whispered pectoriloquy and egophony.

Health Assessment, part 34: Whispered Pectoriloquy & Egophony

Meris Shuwarger BSN, RN, CEN, TCRN

Additional lung assessments, including whispered pectoriloquy and egophony.

Health Assessment, part 33: Adventitious Breath Sounds

Health Assessment, part 33: Adventitious Breath Sounds

Meris Shuwarger BSN, RN, CEN, TCRN

Types, qualities, and some possible causes for adventitious breath sounds (e.g., fine crackles, coarse crackles, wheeze, rhonchi, friction rub).

Health Assessment, part 33: Adventitious Breath Sounds

Meris Shuwarger BSN, RN, CEN, TCRN

Types, qualities, and some possible causes for adventitious breath sounds (e.g., fine crackles, coarse crackles, wheeze, rhonchi, friction rub).

Health Assessment, part 32: Assessing Breath Sounds

Health Assessment, part 32: Assessing Breath Sounds

Meris Shuwarger BSN, RN, CEN, TCRN

Posterior chest auscultation sites along with the types and location of normal breath sounds (i.e., bronchial, bronchovesicular, vesicular).

Health Assessment, part 32: Assessing Breath Sounds

Meris Shuwarger BSN, RN, CEN, TCRN

Posterior chest auscultation sites along with the types and location of normal breath sounds (i.e., bronchial, bronchovesicular, vesicular).

Health Assessment, part 31: Percussion Findings

Health Assessment, part 31: Percussion Findings

Meris Shuwarger BSN, RN, CEN, TCRN

Findings associated with indirect percussion (i.e., resonance, hyperresonance, dullness, flatness, and tympany).

Health Assessment, part 31: Percussion Findings

Meris Shuwarger BSN, RN, CEN, TCRN

Findings associated with indirect percussion (i.e., resonance, hyperresonance, dullness, flatness, and tympany).

Health Assessment, part 30: Chest Assessment

Health Assessment, part 30: Chest Assessment

Meris Shuwarger BSN, RN, CEN, TCRN

Basics of assessing the anterior and posterior chest, including observing for the point of maximal impulse (PMI), lifts and heaves, AP:T chest ratio, and costovertebral angle (CVA) tenderness.

Health Assessment, part 30: Chest Assessment

Meris Shuwarger BSN, RN, CEN, TCRN

Basics of assessing the anterior and posterior chest, including observing for the point of maximal impulse (PMI), lifts and heaves, AP:T chest ratio, and costovertebral angle (CVA) tenderness.