Abdominal Assessment for Nursing with Demo

Nursing students, nurses, and other health care professionals need to know how to do an abdominal assessment, but more importantly, understand the normal findings.

Timestamps:

01:21 Three areas to focus on for the video and general survey
01:46 Basic knowledge on quadrants (Right upper, right lower, epigastric, right hypocondriac, etc)
04:03 Assessment: color, shape, contour, masses, lesions, scars and more
05:16 Auscultation of the Abdomen: bowel sounds and bruits
06:37 Percussion of the abdomen, tympany
07:10 Palpation of abdomen: light palpation and deep palpation
08:09 Special Assessments: McBurney's Point, Murphys Sign; Liver and Gall Bladder Assessment
10:30 NCLEX questions

Whether you are preparing for an OSCE, clinical skills test, or need to refresh your knowledge to complete your nursing assessment; the inspection, palpation, percussion, auscultation, method for health assessments changes order when completing the abdominal assessment,.

These nursing fundamentals of the GI assessment (GI System) for the physical assessment will guide your data gathering as you complete a basic abdominal assessment.

For the abdominal exam, the order is inspection, auscultation, percussion, palpation.

In this video, I demonstrate the process for the abdominal exam and provide a few bonus assessments such as:

McBurney's Point
Murphy's Signs
Assessing for an Enlarged Liver
Acute Cholecystitis
PLUS two practice NCLEX questions

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[TheGarmery]

I'm an EMT, so I really appreciate videos like this that let me get a little closer to internal medicine to better assess my patients!

[yooreekwon]

English is not my first language but thanks to your clear, lovely vocice, I can listen to you easily. Thank you for teaching

[jojoex]

I’m an NP student and this video was/is gold.

[ashleymaude]

thank you! you are thorough and kind! my favorite kind of human!

[pimpampiii]

I'll be having my return demonstration tomorrow, hope this make me score a 100%!!!!

[Lolita_Vega]

Oh my gosh I love your demonstration! This is going to be on my next exam and I read my book several times to try to understand abd percussion but it would just not make sense in my head( I am a visual learner). Thank you so much for making this video 💗

[nikkirae]

Thank you for this! I feel pretty lucky that I am still able to go to nursing school during this time of isolation, but learning skills through zoom is so hard! I appreciate seeing that it's possible to practice on myself and at least get a little more comfortable with the process

[Eternally_Seven]

This is so informative and easy to understand.
It helped me with my practical
Thank you so much ❤😊

[Kats]

Thank You so much! you have made this easy to understand and possible to practice. Not everyone has lots of willing patients. I will be checking out your other videos as well and am now subscribed. thanks again

[elinathapa]

wow thank you so much for lovely vedio. your voice is so clear and intresting.

[nancyh]

I am a nursing student and look forward to seeing more of your videos

[rupsabanerjee]

That was really helpful!Thank u gonna help me a lot in my tomorrow's demonstration exam

[positivelady]

I actually have an assignment due for this and I have no one to participate on thank you so much

[daniellelanghauser]

thank you for teaching all of us thank you so much

[edd]

Thanks a lot ... You make my class easier for me

[TDRrobertTDR]

i appreciate this very much. what would be great is to have a video that goes over the proper/expected report. Ex: when reporting color should you just say expected for ethnicity, or include no jaundice, cyanosis, redness, bruising, striae, etc? what would be the minimum acceptable, but still covering everything. thank you!

[gisellesyentrinh]

very helpful and easy to understand. thank you

[monatajik]

Excellent donation and clear for understanding .Thank you so much .Can not wait for next

[jeneacho]

Thank you so much! This has helped me so much!

[pbwsnvb]

Thank you so much. Feel much more confident now. I don't have anyone to do the assessment on as of now. Covid-19 is giving all the students a challenge. Thank you so much!