The LEAST accurate route for measuring temperature
What is axillary temperature?
100
The most common site to measure pulse
What is radial?
100
Consists of one inspiration and one expiration
What is one respiration?
100
136/82. Which number represents the diastolic pressure?
What is 82?
100
Convert 102* Fahrenheit to Celsius.
C = (F-32) x 0.5556
What is 38.9* C?
200
The oral clinical thermometer is left in place for _____ minutes
What is 3-5 minutes?
200
A pulse rate below 60 beats per minute
What is bradycardia?
200
Difficult or labored respirations
What is dyspnea?
200
The length of time for a patient to sit quietly before checking blood pressure
What is 5 minutes?
200
The normal range for oral temperature
What is 97.6* F to 99.6* F?
300
Thermometer with a short, stubby, rounded bulb, and a red tip
What is a rectal thermometer?
300
The general range for pulse in adults
What is 60-100 beats per minute?
300
Periods of apnea and dyspnea
What are Cheyne-Stokes respirations?
300
B/P greater than 140mm Hg systolic and 90mm Hg diastolic
What is hypertension?
300
Calculate the pulse deficit if the radial pulse is 98 and the apical pulse is 72
What is 26?
400
Rectal temperature below 95 degrees F (35 degrees C)
What is hypothermia?
400
The pulse located at the top of the foot arch
What is the dorsalis pedis?
400
Difficult breathing with a high-pitched whistling or sighing sound during expiration
What is wheezing?
400
Factors that may decrease blood pressure
What are rest/sleep, depressant drugs, shock, dehydration, hemorrhage, and fasting?
400
Calculate the pulse pressure if the diastolic pressure is 95 and the systolic pressure is 140
What is 45?
500
Illness, infection, exercise, excitement, and high environmental temperatures
What are causes of increased body temperature?
500
The words used to describe the volume of the pulse
What are strong, weak, thready, bounding?
500
Words used to describe the character of respirations
What are deep, shallow, labored, difficult, stertorous, and moist?
500
Occurs when there is a sudden drop in both systolic and diastolic pressure when a person moves from a lying to a sitting or standing position
What is orthostatic hypotension?
500
You were assigned to take vital signs on an 80 year old male nursing home resident who was recently admitted after having a stroke. Vital signs were B/P 130/90, T 99.4*, P 92, R 32. Which vital sign reflects a measurement within normal limits?