The nurse is helping a student understand the techniques used when completing a physical assessment. Which definitions should the nurse use to define these techniques?
1. Palpation is visualizing, inspection is feeling or touching, percussion is hearing, and auscultation is tapping and listening.
2. Palpation is touching, inspection is feeling, percussion is tapping and listening, and auscultation is listening.
3. Palpation is touching, inspection is looking, percussion is tapping, and auscultation is listening.
4. Palpation is tapping and listening, inspection is listening, percussion is touching, and auscultation is smelling.
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Rationale 1: Palpation is touching, feeling, or pressing on an area. Inspection involves visualizing. Percussion requires gentle tapping to listen for the returned sound. Auscultation is listening with or without an instrument such as a stethoscope.
Rationale 2: Palpation is touching, feeling, or pressing on an area. Inspection involves visualizing. Percussion requires gentle tapping to listen for the returned sound. Auscultation is listening with or without an instrument such as a stethoscope.
Rationale 3: Palpation is touching, feeling, or pressing on an area. Inspection involves visualizing. Percussion requires gentle tapping to listen for the returned sound. Auscultation is listening with or without an instrument such as a stethoscope.
Rationale 4: Palpation is touching, feeling, or pressing on an area. Inspection involves visualizing. Percussion requires gentle tapping to listen for the returned sound. Auscultation is listening with or without an instrument such as a stethoscope.
Global Rationale: Palpation is touching, feeling, or pressing on an area. Inspection involves visualizing. Percussion requires gentle tapping to listen for the returned sound. Auscultation is listening with or without an instrument such as a stethoscope.
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