It is the expected range for adult pulse rate.
What is 60-100 beats per minute.
This is pain less than 3 months (some sources might say 6 months)
What is acute pain?
It is "behavior motivated by the desire to increase well-being and actualize human health potential"
What is health promotion?
They are the five "tones" in percussion
What are resonant, flat, dull, tympanic and hyperresonant?
It is the amount of time a regular pulse and respiratory rate that fall within expected range should be counted for.
What is 30 seconds.
This is when the patient has an outward response to the pain, often times can be influenced
What is pain tolerance?
Name the five routes for taking temperature.
What are oral, temporal, axilla, rectal and tympanic.
Examples of factors that can increase pain tolerance (be able to endure more pain before the outward response)
Distraction, warmth, cold, medication, medication/mindfulness, prior experience (not repeat exposure)
Caring for someone in a rehabilitation facility is an example of what level of prevention?
What is tertiary prevention?
When auscultating the headpiece should be in direct contact with this.
What is the skin?
Pulse assessment should include these four elements.
What are rate, rhythm, amplitude and equality.
Well localized, aching, throbbing, cramping, constant or intermittent
What is somatic pain - a type of nociceptive pain?
What is secondary prevention?
When a positive symptom is reported, OLD CARTS is used and it means:
What is onset, location, duration, characteristics, aggravating factors, related symptoms, treatment, severity
You can use the same large area headpiece for both diaphragm and bell, depending on the pressure used.
What is a tunable stethoscope?
Your hands are visibly soiled, it is best to do this next
What is wash with soap and water
This is the 1st and last Korotkoff sound heard
What is systolic and diastolic BP?
When the pain has been there so long, vital signs are no longer affected
What is chronic pain?