The pediatric nurse teaches a student nurse that when assessing the lymph glands of a patient the nodes should be palpated systematically in the following order:
A) Preauricular area, postauricular area, occipital nodes, tonsillar nodes, submandibular and submental nodes, cervical chain and supraclavicular area
B) Occipital nodes, tonsillar nodes, preauricular area, postauricular area, submandibular and submental nodes, cervical chain and supraclavicular area
C) Preauricular area, postauricular area, submandibular and submental nodes, cervical chain, supraclavicular area and occipital nodes and tonsillar nodes
D) Cervical chain and supraclavicular area, reauricular area, postauricular are, occipital nodes, tonsillar nodes, and submandibular and submental nodes
A
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