HEAD & NECK
This is the term for checking pupil response to light and accommodation
What is PERRLA?
The first thing you do before auscultating the chest
What is inspection?
The first step in abdominal assessment.
What is inspection?
You palpate this pulse on top of the foot.
What is dorsalis pedis?
This technique involves using your eyes to observe the patient.
What is inspection?
Enlarged lymph nodes in the neck could indicate this common condition
What is an infection?
These breath sounds are normal and heard over the lung fields
What are vesicular breath sounds?
Tenderness in the right lower quadrant may suggest this.
What is appendicitis?
This is the term for swelling in the legs.
What is edema?
Checking skin turgor helps assess this.
What is hydration status?
You use this technique to feel for tenderness in the scalp.
What is palpation?
You listen to this side of the stethoscope during lung auscultation.
What is the diaphragm?
the abdomen is divided into this many quadrants.
what is four?
Posture and spinal alignment are assessed in this body region.
What is the back?
This is the correct order of techniques in abdominal assessment.
What is inspection, auscultation, percussion, palpation?
This cranial nerve is tested when the patient follows your finger with their eyes.
What is cranial nerve III (oculomotor)?
Percussion over the lungs should normally produce this sound
what is resonance?
You auscultate before palpation in the abdomen to avoid this.
What is altering bowel sounds?
We look at how straight the back is and how someone stands to check this
What is posture or spinal alignment?
Skin that is bluish in color may indicate this.
What is cyanosis?
Name two things you assess in the mouth during inspection.
What are lesions and moisture?
We use this to listen to sounds
what is stethoscope?
are the noises made by food and gases in the intestines.
what are bowel sounds?
This bony spot on the lower back is where bedsores often appear.
What is the sacrum?
This is the term for listening to internal body sounds.
What is auscultation?