The nurse is assessing a client. Which assessment techniques are correctly matched with a possible finding? (Select all that apply.)

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The four techniques of physical assessment are inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation. Inspection might reveal a skin lesion visible to the eye, a heart murmur heard with a stethoscope, kidney inflammation revealed through deep percussion, and bounding pulses felt through palpation. Deep percussion would demonstrate kidney inflammation, not tissue density. Wheezes are assessed with auscultation, not percussion.

The Nurse Is Assessing a Client