For a composite adult, the Week 7 abdominal and musculoskeletal write-up example from NURS 3025 documents both systems in their examination orders, sides compared, scales named, interpretation withheld. Searches like "nurs 3025 week 7 assignment example", "nurs3025 week 7 sample" and "nurs 3025 week 7 example" land here.
What a finished NURS 3025 Week 7 abdominal and musculoskeletal write-up looks like
Four pages. A short subjective section records bowel pattern, appetite, the bloating's timing relative to meals, and the back stiffness by onset, duration and effect on daily tasks, all attributed to the patient. The abdominal section documents inspection of contour and skin, bowel sounds by quadrant, percussion notes, then light and deep palpation with any tenderness located by quadrant and described by the patient's response. The musculoskeletal section inspects posture and gait, then lists each examined joint with range of motion described as full or limited and in which direction, and muscle strength recorded on the zero-to-five grading scale with left and right side by side. A small table sets the bilateral comparisons in rows. Findings that were looked for and not elicited, such as rebound tenderness, are stated as absent.
How a NURS 3025 Week 7 example is structured
The abdomen's order departs from every other system in the course, and the write-up follows that departure visibly, since graders check that the documented sequence matches the accepted one. Quadrants serve as the addressing system, so every tenderness and every percussion note has a place. The musculoskeletal section is organized around comparison rather than sequence. Paired joints are documented side by side, and the table makes any asymmetry obvious in one read, since asymmetry is the finding this kind of exam exists to surface. Scales are named at first use so a strength grade means the same thing to every reader. Subjective data stays in its own section even where it overlaps with findings, such as the patient's report of stiffness beside a measured limitation, which keeps the two sources distinct and lets a reader weigh each on its own terms.
Abdomen in its own order
Inspection, auscultation, percussion, palpation. The documented sequence matches the accepted one for this system, and a grader can confirm that at a glance.
Quadrants as addresses
Bowel sounds, percussion notes and tenderness are each placed by quadrant. A finding with no quadrant attached cannot be compared with the next assessment.
Joints compared in pairs
Left and right sit beside each other for every joint examined, with range of motion stated as full or limited and the direction of any limitation named.
Strength on a named scale
The zero-to-five scale is identified at first use. A grade without its scale reads differently depending on who picks up the record.
Absent findings, stated
Signs the exam looked for and did not find are written as absent, so the record shows the question was asked of the body and answered.
Where marks go in NURS 3025 Week 7
Precision in objective language is the thread nearly every line of this rubric pulls on. Tenderness described as 'some discomfort in the stomach area' loses points that 'tenderness to light palpation, left lower quadrant, patient grimaced' keeps. Sequence is marked for the abdomen specifically, and a write-up documenting palpation before auscultation is routinely docked. Bilateral comparison carries its own weight in the musculoskeletal portion, where findings recorded for one side only leave the rubric's symmetry question unanswered. Scales named and used consistently earn a smaller line. The deduction many submissions do not see coming lands on subjective data that migrates into the objective section, such as 'patient's back is stiff' recorded as a finding rather than as a report, which the grader reads as a failure to separate sources.
Get a NURS 3025 Week 7 example written to your instructions
Send the Week 7 prompt with its rubric, and note whether your section pairs abdomen with musculoskeletal or assigns them separately. The write-up is matched to that pairing, examination order kept, bilateral findings tabled. Grading scales follow your course materials when you include them. First sample free, back within 24-48 hours.
NURS 3025 Week 7 questions, answered
What if my section assigns only the abdominal exam this week?
Then the sample covers only the abdomen, in fuller detail than the paired version shown here. Sections split and pair these systems differently, and the desk writes to the pairing your prompt sets. The documentation standards stay the same either way: quadrant addressing, the abdomen's accepted sequence, and tenderness described by location and the patient's response.
Why record findings that were absent?
An absent sign is a result, and leaving it unwritten erases the evidence that the examination looked for it. The example states that rebound tenderness was absent and that no joint swelling was observed, so the next reader knows those questions were asked. Rubrics in this course often treat an unmentioned sign the same as an unexamined one, which costs completeness points.
Is the back stiffness patient real?
The patient is invented. Stiffness, bloating and every measured finding were assembled for this example, and no clinical record contributed a line. That holds for every sample on the site. If you are documenting an encounter from your own practice for class, the privacy rules of your employer and your program decide what can appear in it, not the sample.