What part of the medical history is the chief complaint or the reason for the visit?
What is the first part of the medical history.
100
When you draw a single line through an entry, along with writing your initials and the date, what are you doing?
What is correcting an error.
100
When interviewing you should use your words and conversation with the patient to keep the coversation on track. True or False?
What is true.
100
If you saw this "R 19" in the chart, what would this represent?
What is respiratory count.
100
What does bradypnea mean?
What is slow breathing.
200
This part of the medical history includes information regarding members of the patient's family.
What is family history.
200
When using a chronological set of progress notes in the patient's chart for each visit, what medical record format would this be considered?
What is source-oriented.
200
Where does the tympanic thermometer need to be placed in the ear in order to get an appropriate reading?
What is in the ear canal to seal the canal.
200
When taking a body temperature, which of the following factors would not effect the results? Time of day, outside temperature, infection, gender, pregnancy?
What is gender.
200
What does the term hypertension mean?
What is high blood pressure.
300
What part of the medical history describes the doctor's assessment of patient's major body systems/functions?
What is review of systems.
300
You notice in your patient's chart that their pulse was bradycardic during their last visit. What pulse value would be considered bradycardic?
What is anything under 60 bpm.
300
If your patient is an athlete, would their pulse be higher or lower than a non-athletic patient?
What is lower.
300
What is utilized when taking oral/digital temperatures, to provide the patient with the most sanitary means of obtaining it.
What is disposable covers.
300
What can cause a tympanic thermometers to give false results?
What is excess cerumen.
400
Where do you place the stethoscope when obtaining an apical pulse?
What is the left midclavicular line, 5th intercostal space.
400
What do you not consider when taking respirations?
What is sounds.
400
When taking a pulse, what are you considering?
What is rate, rhythm, volume.
400
When taking a blood pressure, should you try to obtain the pressure through the patient's clothing?
What is no.
400
Which artery is typically used to measure blood pressure?
What is brachial.
500
What happens when your blood pressure cuff is too large for your patient?
What is obtaing a false low reading.
500
What is the normal range for adult respirations?
What is 16-20.
500
Why would a patient's weight be measured at each visit?
What is to evaluate patient changes.
500
During a cardiac contraction, which term represents the force exerted on the arterial wall?
What is systole.
500
Why do we place the B/P cuff 2 inches above the elbow?