Question

A nurse is performing a health history and physical assessment of a client with cholelithiasis and obstructive jaundice. which clinical finding should the nurse expect this client to exhibit?

Answer 1

While taking the health history and carrying out physical assessment on a patient with Cholelithiasis and Obstructive Jaundice, the nurse should expect the patient to exhibit the following common clinical findings:

- Ecchymosis (discoloration of the skin due to bleeding underneath)

- Yellow Sclera

- Pain in right upper quadrant