NCLEX-RN Complete Prep Course — Lesson 78: Head-to-Toe Physical Assessment: Techniques, Sequence, and Documentation

Sarah Mitchell walks through the head-to-toe assessment in exam order, inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation, and the abdominal exception where the nurse listens before touching. She covers skin color and turgor, capillary refill under three seconds, lymph nodes, thyroid, trachea, one carotid at a time, PERRLA, the whisper test, otoscope technique, the five heart landmarks, quadrants, pulse and edema grading, documentation, and pediatric and older adult modifications.

Lesson 78 of 125 in the NCLEX-RN Complete Prep Course audio course from ExamPrepRise.

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