What Care Does The Nurse Take While Palpating The Breasts Of A Patient?

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What Care Does The Nurse Take While Palpating The Breasts Of A Patient?

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Assist the patient to a supine position. Tuck a pad under the side to be palpated. Have the patient raise the arm over the head. The nurse assists the patient to a supine position to palpate the breasts. The nurse places a small pad under the side to be palpated and asks the patient to raise the arm over the head. These maneuvers flatten the breast tissue and displace it medially. This helps the nurse to feel the presence of any lumps in the tissue. The nurse uses the pads of the first three fingers and not the fingertips while palpating to detect lumps. The nurse varies the pressure while palpating the breast from the nipples to the periphery like the spokes of a wheel or in concentric circles out to the periphery.
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