skin
tools needed for a skin assessment
What are gloves, penlight, and ruler?
Ear drum should be this color.
What is grey?
This valve is best heard at the left 5th intercostal space
What is the mitral valve?
Observable signs of struggles with breathing
What is nasal flaring and pursed lips?
Orientation is documented like this
Ox1-4
4 skin discolorations
What is jaundice, pallor, erythema, and cyanosis?
Lymph nodes play a major role in this
What is the immune system?
This part of the stethoscope is used to hear murmurs
What is the bell?
This sound is expected when lungs are percussed
What is resonance?
Asking the patient to shrug their shoulders tests this nerve
What is spinal accessory (C XI)?
A small flat discoloration
What is a macule?
This assessment technique should not be done to the neck
What is percussion?
Extra heart sounds (S3 and S4) are best heard here
What is the apex?
A low pitched snoring sound when breathing
What is rhonchi?
Tingling and numbness of limbs
What is paresthesia?
Clubbing of nails indicates disease of this organ
What are lungs?
PERRLA stands for this
What is "Pupils are Round, Reactive to Light, and Accomodating?"
Murmurs are graded on this scale
What is I-VI?
Placing hands on each side of the patient and asking them to take a deep breath checks this
What is thoracic expansion?
This is how you test for the Babinski Reflex
This is another word for bruising
what is ecchymosis?
Medical name for bulging eyes
What is exophthalmos?
Murmurs are normal for these people
Who is pregnant women?
Another name for "pigeon chest"
What is pectus carinatum?
One side of the body is paralyzed
What is hemiplegia?