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A client is having a difficult time swallowing medications and food.  The nurse would document that the client has:

Which statement provides an accurate comparison of the right and left lungs?

What type of breath sounds will be heard over the trachea area?

The nurse knows when she is auscultating a client and hears a low soft pitch in the peripheral lung fields she is hearing what type of breath sound?

Which of the following is used to monitor a clients arterial oxygen level?

You observe a client’s respirations to be cyclical in nature, increasing and decreasing rate and depth, and separated by periods of apnea.  How would you identify these respirations?

An occupational therapy evaluation must be reliably able to assess three interwoven essential elements: the ___________________, which is the “doing” of the occupation; the ________________, which is how the “doing” is experienced by the client; and ____________________, which means that a person is engaged in doing something and they experience it as valuable.

During palpation of the anterior chest wall, the nurse notes a course, crackling sensation over the skin surface.  Which would best described what the nurse is palpating:

What is the function of the negative pressure in the pleural lining of the lungs?

The nurse notices the client’s breathing is more difficult and taking more effort, also only the left side of the chest is rising and falling.  How would the nurse document this?