Mental Health
What conveys emotional status and mood?
What is eye contact, facial expressions, and tone of voice?
What cranial nerve tests for visual acuity and confrontation?
What is Cranial Nerve I: Optic Nerve
Adventitious breath sound heard by a patient with asthma
What are Wheezes?
This is the medical term for ringing of the ears
What is Tinnitus?
Bluish color or clubbing int he fingers represent what disorder?
What is hypoexmia?
Yellow pigmentation in the sclera of the eye
What is jaundice?
How do you test for the Trigeminal Nerve?
Have the patient clench their jaw or close their eyes to detect sensation touches on the face.
They are fine and high-pitched breath sounds that used to be called rales. These will not be cleared by cough.
What are Crackles?
The medical term for a bruise.
What is ecchymosis?
Elevated irregularly shaped areas of edema are seen in allergic reactions
What are wheals (Hives)?
What is the consensual reaction in the eyes?
What is the normal movement of the eyes?
This assesses the movement of the tongue, what is the name of CN XII?
What is the Hypoglossal Nerve
Rapid breathing that is deep and labored.
What is Kussmaul's respirations?
This skin disorder is flat, less than 1 cm, and changes in the color of the skin.
What are Macules (freckles)?
This pressure ulcer has intact skin and redness at the site
What is Stage I ulcer?
What are common symptoms associated with migraine headaches?
What is nausea, vomiting, or visual disturbances?
The Glossopharyngeal and Vagus nerves test the patient's gag reflex and movement of the soft palate, what are the roman numerals of those nerves?
What are CN IX and CN X?
This adventitious breath sound usually clears with a cough and is heard during expiration with obstructive diseases.
What is Rhonchi?
Tina, flat, reddish-purple, pinpoint in size spots on the skin
What is petechiae?
What does A, B, C, D, and E mean when describing an tumor or mass?
What is asymmetry, Border, color, diameter, and evolving?
These three CN test the movement of the eye muscles, name the CN names and Roman numerals.
What is CN III - Oculomotor, CN IV - Trochlear, CN VI - Abducens?
Varying periods of deep breathing with no breaths at all
What stage is a pressure ulcer that has partial thickness and appears shiny or dry with an open ulcer with a pink wound bed?
What is Stage 2 pressure ulcer?