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Physical Assessment Using Head Toe Approach

Abdomen Skin, hair and nails

• Inspect, auscultate, palpate four • Inspect scalp, hair & nails

quadrants • Evaluate skin turgor

• Palpate and percuss liver, • Observe skin lesion

stomach, bladder

• Assess wounds
• Bowel elimination

• Urinary elimination