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How to do a general assessment |
Inspection Palpate Percussion Auscultation how |
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How to do an abdominal assessment |
Inspection, auscultation, percussion, and palpitationhow |
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How to check temperature |
Use dorsum of fingers for temperature |
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How to assess moveable structure of the kidneys |
Use bimanual palpitation ( both hands) Place sensing hand lightly on skin surface, place active hand over sensing hand and apply pressure |
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Types is percussion |
Direct-strike body surface with 1 or 2 fingers Indirect percussion-strike finger or hand placed over body surface Blunt-use reflex hammer to check deep tendon reflexes or use blunt to assess costovertebral angle tenderness |
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What is resonance? |
Moderate to loud sounds, low pitche (clear or hollow) sound of moderate duration, found with air filled tissue ( normal lung) |
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What is hyperresonance |
High pitch booming, loud low pitched sound of longer duration found with over inflated air filled tissue. (Fluid emphysema) normal in a child due to chest wall |
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What is tymphany |
Loud, drum like, high- pitched or musical sound of moderately long duration found with enclosed air filled structures (bowel) |
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Define dull |
Soft, muffled moderate to high pitches sound of short duration found with dense fluid filled tissue (liver) |
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Define flat |
Very soft, high pitched sound of short duration found with dense tissue (bone, muscle) |
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Normal pulse of newborn |
120-140 |
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Normal breath per min for newborn |
30-60 |
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Normal bp for newborn |
65/41 |
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Normal respiration for age 1-4 |
20-40 |
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Normal pulse for 1-4 year old |
70-110 |
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Normal bp for 1-4 |
90/55 |
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Normal bp for 5-12 year old |
100/60 |
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Normal RR per min in 5-12 yr old |
16-22 |
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Normal HR in a 5-12! Year old |
60-95 |
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Normal adult bp |
120/80 |
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Normal RR in an adult |
12-20 |
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Normal HR |
60-100 |
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What’s apnea |
Stop breathing |
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What’s cheyes-stroke respiration |
Breathing characterized by rhythmic waxing and waning of depth of respiration |
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What’s dysnea |
Difficulty breathing |
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Define hyperapnea |
Hyperventilating |
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What’s hypo ventilation |
Produces acidosis due to elevation of co2 |
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Kussmal respiration |
Very deep and rapid respiration, hunger for air |
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Orthopnea |
Difficult breathing when lying down |
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Paradoxical respiration |
Opposite to normal |
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Cyanosis |
Bluish discoloration of the skin |
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What’s stridor |
Harsh or high pitched respiratory sound caused by obstruction of the air passages |
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Taking blood pressure in the arm should only be a difference by |
5-10 |
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What’s hiruitism |
Excessive hair |
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Alopecia is |
Loss or thinning of hair |
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What’s ptosis |
Dropping of eye lids |
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Define nystagmus |
Involuntary rapid eye movements |
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Strabismus is |
Lazy eye. Involuntary drifting of one eye out of alignment of with the other eye |
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How to examine an adult ear |
Pinna up and back |
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How to examine infants and children less than 3 ears |
Pinna down and back |
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Weber’s test for |
Assessed bone conduction. Activate tuning fork and immediately place on midline of skull, ask if heard louder in one ear |
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Rinne test |
This is a comparison of air to bone conduction placed of mastoid process. When client no longer hears sound; positioned front of ear canal normal |
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Olfactory |
Cn1- sense of smell |
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Optic nerve |
Cn2- sense of vision |
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Oculomotor |
Cn3 - pupils constrict and raising of eye lids |
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Trochlear |
Cn4- downwards, inwards movement of eyes |
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Trigeminal |
Cn5: able to clench and relax jaw, sensory of face |
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Abducens |
Cn6- move eyes in all directions |
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Cn7 |
Facial- smile, whistle, wrinkle forehead, different taste |
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Cn8 |
Acoustic-hearing, balance and walking |
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Cn9: |
Glossopharyngeal- able to swallow, taste and gag reflex |
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CN 10 |
Vagus-swallow and speak |
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Spinal accessory nerve |
Cn11- flex/rotate head shrug shoulders |
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Hypoglossal nerve |
Cn12- move tongue side to side and stick it out |
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Fears of surgery for developmental stages |
Toddler: fear separation Preschool- fear mutilation, allow child to play with a model and encourage questions School age- fear losing control Adolescences- fear losing independence |
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Where is popiteal pulse found |
Back of knee |
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Where is temporal |
Lateral to eyes |
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Posterior tibial pulse |
On the inner side of ankle |
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Apical pulse found where |
On the left of the 5th intercostal space at the midclavicular line |
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Where is brachial pulse found |
Over the groove between the biceps and triceps muscle |
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Femoral pulse |
Below the inguinal ligament, midway the symphysis pubis and anterior superior illiac spine |
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Radial pulse |
Side of the wrist |
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Dorsalis pedis |
Along the top of the door between extension tendons of the great and first toe |
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Factors that influence respiration |
Fear, anxiety, medication and disease |
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What factors influence bp |
Disease, medication, anxiety, cardiac output, peripheral resistance, blood volume, blood viscosity, age, weight and exercise |
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Factors that influence pulse rate and rhythm |
Medication, pathology, exercise, age, gender, temperature, bp, serum electrolyte |
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Normal ph of urine |
Ph 4.6-8.0 Color should be pale to amber Have a specific gravity: 1.010-1.030, Red blood cells- 0-2 |
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What age should breast examination begin |
Begin 18-20, examine a week after period begins. If not menstruating examine at a routine time such as 1st day of month |
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Steps of breast self exam |
Arms at sides, arms above head and hands on hips |
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Menopause begins |
45-60 years |
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Menstruation begins |
Age 10-15 |
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Physical assessment |
Inspection-looking, listening and smelling Palpation- use of touch Percussion: tapping fingers or hands against parts of the body Auscultation- smell |
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Name the levels of disease prevention |
Primary- health promotion Secondary- early diagnosis and prompt treatment Tertiary- restoration and rehabilitation to minimize effects of the disease |
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Lead poisoning symptoms |
nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, constipation, diarrhea, decreased activity, hematologic blood, kidney and central nervous system effects |
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Lead poison sources |
Plaster, paint, gasoline, soil, pipes, pottery |
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Dtap vaccines |
Given at 2, 4, 6, 18 months and at age 4-6 Dtap includes ( tb, pertussis, diptheria) |
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When is hep b given |
Birth, 1-4 months, 6-18 months |
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Describe when hpv is given |
3 dose series starting at age 11-12 |
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When is rotavirus given |
2, 4, 6 months |
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When to give pollio vaccine |
2 months, 4 months, 6-18 months, 4-6 years |
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Haemphilus influenzas type b given |
2 months, 4 months and 12-15 months |
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What are smokers at risk for |
Copd, coronary heart disease, hypertension, head and neck cancer, peripheral vascular disease, laryngeal cancer, lung cancer |
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How to help client stop smoking |
Behavior modification Nicotine patches or replacement Support groups |
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Purpose of Weber test |
Assesses bone conduction Vibrating tuning fork placed in middle of forehead Normal finding after using Weber is heat sound equally in both ears |
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What is the Rinne test for |
Compares bone conduction with air conduction When client no longer hears sound fork is positioned in front of ear canal |
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How to assess balance |
Use Romberg test |
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How to check ear for tympanic membrane for an adult or child |
Adult: pull pinna up and back for an adult Child: pull pinna down and back for infant under 3 to straighten ear canal |
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Stage 1 hypertension |
130 to 139 or 80 to 89 |
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Stage 2 |
140/ 90 |
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Elevated hypertension |
Systolic 120 o129 |
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Normal hypertension |
Systolic less than 120/less 80 |
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What is fistula |
Abnormal tube like passage between two body cavities or between one body cavity and the body surface |
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Assessment questions to ask a smoker |
Pack years = number of pack smoked times number of packs per day |
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Which blood type is universal donar |
O |
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Which blood type is universal recipient |
AB |
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Low Fowler |
15-30 degrees |
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Semi Fowlers |
30-45 degrees |
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Fowler’s |
45-60 |
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High fowler |
60-90 |
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What scale is used to test level of consciousness |
Glosgow coma scale, <7 means coma 15= alert and oriented |
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Normal bmi |
18.5-24.9 |
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Obesity |
30-30.9 |
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Overweight |
25-29.9 |
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Underweight |
Less than 18.5 |
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What does RACE mean for fire |
R= rescue or move client from immediate danger A=activate alarm C=contain the fire by closing the doors E=extinguish the fire |
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What is absence of menstral cycle |
Amenorrhea |
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Painful menstrual cycle is |
Dysmenorrhea |