Abdominal Assessment

Identify the organs in each Quadrant

Right Upper Quadrant Left Upper Quadrant

Right Lower Quadrant Left Lower Quadrant

Health History

Question Rationale for asking this question

Present Health History
Chronic Illness

Medications?

Bowel Movements

Past Health History

Past problems with GI
system

Abdominal or urinary
surgeries

Urinary problems

Family History
GI system disease

Urinary tract disease

Personal and Psychosocial History

Alcohol

Smoking
 Abdominal Pain

Cause Quality of Pain Location Symptoms / Aggravated by

Gastroesophageal
reflux (GERD)

Peptic Ulcer

Crohn’s disease

Ulcerative Colitis

Diverticulitis

Viral hepatitis

Cholecystitis

Pancreatitis

Urinary tract
infections (UTI)

Nephrolithiasis

Appendicitis