A nurse is preparing to auscultate for heart sounds on a client. Which technique should be used by the nurse?

Listening for sounds from the apex to the heart to the base of the heart.

Listening to the sounds at the site where the apical pulse is heard to be the loudest.

Listening from the base of the heart across and down, then over to the apex.

Listening to the sounds at the aortic, tricuspid, pulmonic, arid mitral areas.