Site Map	Examine the Inguinoscrotal Region including Lymph Nodes

• Introduce yourself and check the patient's identity
• Establish rapport with patient
• Ask permission to examine & explain examination
• Ensure appropriate position to examine the patient
  • Maintaining dignity of the patient
• Warm hands
• Ask the patient to cough and look for hernias
• Examine
  • Femoral triangle
  • Inguinal canal
  • Femoral pulses
  • Scrotum
• Feel for cough impulse
• Assess if lump transilluminates
• Suggests standing to assess
  • Varicocoele
  • Saphenofemoral varix
• Restore patient's clothing
• Care taken to
  • Use appropreate language
  • Use appropreate questions; open, closed & clarifying
  • Encourage and answer patients questions
  • Acknowledge patient concerns
• Summary and analysis of findings
• Wash hands

	Any comments or feedback please contact me by email: Tom Williams