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ATI Physical Assessment Proctored Exam is a nursing-school practice exam with 40 questions. It is written for nursing students preparing for this course exam and for NCLEX-style review. Every question has its own page showing the full stem, all answer options, the correct answer, and a written rationale explaining why each option is right or wrong.
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Start Practice ExamA nurse is assessing the symmetry of a client's chest. The nurse should understand that which technique best confirms symmetric expansion of the chest?
A nurse is auscultating the lungs of a sleeping client and hears short, popping, crackling breath sounds that stop after a few breaths. How should the nurse document these breath sounds in the client'
A nurse is conducting a class on Breast Self-Examination (BSE) for women of childbearing age. The nurse should include which of these statements that indicates the proper BSE technique?
A nurse is listening to the heart sounds of a client. What information about S2 sounds should the nurse recognize as accurate?
A nurse is performing an assessment of an adult client and observes unequal chest expansion. The nurse should recognize that unequal chest expansion I occur for which reason?
A nurse is caring for a client who has had a stroke. id assesses right-sided facial drooping. The nurse should also anticipate which of the following assessment findings?
A nurse is preparing to auscultate for heart sounds on a client. Which technique should be used by the nurse?
A nurse is assessing the symmetry of a client's chest. The nurse should understand that which technique best confirms symmetric expansion of the chest?
A nurse reviewing the anatomy and physiologic functioning of the heart. The nurse should recognize that which statement best describes the atrial kick?
A nurse is reviewing the sequence of the cardiac cycle. The nurse recognizes that the electrical stimulus of the cardiac cycle follows which sequence?
A nurse is palpating a client's anterior chest wall and notices a course, crackling sensation over the skin surface. Which of the following should the nurse suspect from these findings?
A nurse s teaching a group of clients about modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Which of the following should the nurse include in the teaching? (Select All that Apply).
A client was recently diagnosed with a heart murmur and is asking the nurse for more information. How should the nurse describe to the client about what a heart murmur is?
A nurse is assessing the tonsils of a client and notes that the tonsils are involuted, granular in appearance, and have deep crypts. nurse should recognize that which of the following is the correct r
A nurse is auscultating breath sounds of a client with pneumonia. The nurse should recognize that lung consolidation produces which adventitious sound?
A nurse is assessing the tonsils of a client and notes that the tonsils are involuted, granular in appearance, and have deep crypts. The nurse should recognize that which of the following is the corre
A nurse is examining a client for tactile fremitus. The nurse should understand that what action is of primary importance when examining for tactile fremitus?
A nurse is documenting assessment findings on a client. Which of the following entries should the nurse identify as subjective data? (Select All that Apply.)
A nurse is teaching a client's partner about how to obtain a blood pressure reading. Which of the following actions by the partner should indicate that further instruction is needed?
A nurse is preparing to assess the visual acuity of an adult client. Which of the following assessment should the nurse use for visual acuity?
A nurse document that a client has a normal pupillary light reflex. The nurse should recognize that this reflex indicates which of the following?
A nurse is teaching a client about internal structures of the breast. The should understand that the internal breast consists what structures?
A nurse is auscultating heart sounds on a client and hears an extra sound late in diastole, just before the S1. How should the nurse document this finding?
A nurse is performing the diagnostic positions test. The nurse recognizes that normal findings from the diagnostic positions test should be which of these results?
A nurse is caring for a client complaining of throbbing pain in the face, teeth, and cheeks. Upon palpation, the nurse notes swollen turbinates and a purulent discharge the nose. The nurse should reco