Lungs Essay

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Lungs & Thorax: Case Study Answer the following questions. We will briefly review the correct answers at the beginning of lab. You are an instructor of nursing in charge of students on your medical-surgical floor. Today’s clinical focus is on the assessment of the Thorax and Lungs. 1. Your students ask you to explain landmarks of the chest. How do you describe the location of the following: angle of Louis, C7, T1, midsternal line, midclavicular line, vertebral line, anterior and posterior axillary lines and midaxillary line? 2. How would you describe to the students the process for counting ribs? 3. Briefly, review the general anatomical terms used to locate chest findings. 4. One of the students has a patient complaining of chest pain. What are some sources of chest pain? 5. A new patient is just being admitted for increasing shortness of breath and cough for the past 3 days. Very little is documented in the patient’s health history. Your student is excited to complete the history. What subjective information do you want to be sure he/she gathers? 6. The above patient is also a smoker. What should you tell your student about assessing a patient’s readiness to quit smoking? What is meant by “pack years” smoked? 7. You are ready to teach the students about physical examination of the Thorax and Lungs. What should be included in what you would teach about “inspection” of the chest to your students? What should be included in what you would teach about “palpation” of the chest to your students? What should be included in what you would teach about “percussion” of the chest to your students? What should be included in what you would teach about “auscultation” of the chest to your students? 8. You have a patient with a diagnosis of acute exacerbation of COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). What would you expect to find on physical

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