This page holds a finished NR 302 Week 7 abdominal assessment, showing the words a beginner uses for what a hand felt when nothing can be shown. Searches like "nr 302 week 7 assignment example", "nr302 week 7 sample" and "nr 302 week 7 example" land here.
What a finished NR 302 Week 7 abdominal assessment looks like
The finished record spends most of its length on words for feel, because that is where the region gives up its information. The opening entries are visual and easy: the shape of the belly seen from the side, whether it is flat, rounded or hollowed, the navel, anything on the skin described where it sits. Listening comes next and reports what was there in each area with a rough count of how often. Then the hand goes on, and the writing gets harder. Firm or soft, taut or slack, springy or unyielding, warm, and whether anything underneath moved when the person breathed. A hard structure felt anywhere is placed and sized. Discomfort is reported with the spot and how much pressure produced it. Nothing anywhere carries a cause.
How a NR 302 Week 7 example is structured
The order is fixed for this region and the example follows it, since the reason behind it is mechanical. The person is lying flat with the knees up and the arms down, and the example says so at the top, because a wall that is not relaxed produces findings that mean nothing. The areas the form prints are named in full at the first use and then used identically in every row afterwards, so that one area can be tracked from the first row to the last without a reader ever having to reconcile two labels. Each entry says which hand technique produced it, light pressure or deeper pressure, and the deeper entries appear only where the assignment permits them. Any sore area is left until last and the record says it was. The closing lines list what was not done and why.
Words for what a hand met
Firm, soft, taut, slack, springy: the terms that carry a touch finding, chosen deliberately because no reader can be shown the thing you felt.
Two pressures kept separate
A light hand and a deeper one produce different claims, so each entry says which was used and the deeper ones appear only where your section allows them.
The same area names all the way down
Whatever the form divides the belly into, those exact names appear in every row, since a label that changes halfway makes the record unreadable.
Position before findings
Flat, knees up, arms down, written at the top, because everything the hand reports afterwards depends on a wall that was not being held tight.
Discomfort with a place and a pressure
Anything that hurt is recorded where it hurt and under how much pressure, and the sore area is left until last so the sequence shows on the page.
Where marks go in NR 302 Week 7
The most expensive line in this week is soft and non-tender, written for the whole belly. It is four words covering four areas and two different techniques, and it tells a grader that the writer had nothing else to say. Second is the entry that names what a hand felt as though it were seen: a description built from words for shape and color when the row asked what the surface resisted. Then the rest: a hard thing reported with no location and no size, discomfort noted with no spot attached, pressure never distinguished between light and deep, the person's position missing from the top of the page, an area that appears in the early rows and vanishes from the later ones, and any sentence naming a condition.
Get a NR 302 Week 7 example written to your instructions
Send the Week 7 instructions and the abdominal form your classroom posted, and a custom example is written into it in the order your section teaches and returned inside 24 to 48 hours. The first one is free. The person who lay down and let you press on them did that under an arrangement that is entirely theirs and yours.
NR 302 Week 7 questions, answered
How do I describe something I felt when I have never felt it before?
Reach for the ordinary words first. Warm, firm, smooth, springy and even are all usable and all accurate, and a grader would rather have five plain words than one borrowed term used loosely. The technical vocabulary for this region arrives over several weeks, and the record only has to be usable by a reader who never met your volunteer, not impressive.
Does the order of the techniques really matter?
It does, and it is usually one of the printed marking items, so it is worth stating in a line rather than only obeying. Pressing on a belly changes what it produces afterwards, which means a record showing the hand before the stethoscope reports numbers that the writer's own examination altered. Writing the reason down converts obedience into a markable sentence.
What if I cannot tell whether something is a normal structure or a lump?
Describe it and say you could not tell. Where it sits, how big it is, whether it moved with the breathing, whether it was tender and how firm it felt are all recordable without deciding what it was. An honest line of that kind is worth full credit at this level, and it is a great deal safer than a confident label the rest of the entry cannot support.