Abdominal Assessment for Nursing with Demo

Nursing students, nurses, and other health care professionals need to know how to do an abdominal assessment, but more importantly, understand the normal findings.
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Timestamps:
01:21 Three areas to focus on for the video and general survey
01:46 Basic knowledge on quadrants (Right upper, right lower, epigastric, right hypocondriac, etc)
04:03 Assessment: color, shape, contour, masses, lesions, scars and more
05:16 Auscultation of the Abdomen: bowel sounds and bruits
06:37 Percussion of the abdomen, tympany
07:10 Palpation of abdomen: light palpation and deep palpation
08:09 Special Assessments: McBurney's Point, Murphys Sign; Liver and Gall Bladder Assessment
10:30 NCLEX questions
Whether you are preparing for an OSCE, clinical skills test, or need to refresh your knowledge to complete your nursing assessment; the inspection, palpation, percussion, auscultation, method for health assessments changes order when completing the abdominal assessment,.
These nursing fundamentals of the GI assessment (GI System) for the physical assessment will guide your data gathering as you complete a basic abdominal assessment.
For the abdominal exam, the order is inspection, auscultation, percussion, palpation.
In this video, I demonstrate the process for the abdominal exam and provide a few bonus assessments such as:
McBurney's Point
Murphy's Signs
Assessing for an Enlarged Liver
Acute Cholecystitis
PLUS two practice NCLEX questions
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Auscultate the abdomen. Start scratching the skin over the liver and move down. As the sound changes, you have discovered the liver border

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