taking
vital signs
vital signs
This is the most accurate location to take a temperature.
This is why taking vital signs is important.
What is they are the first indication of a disease or abnormality in a patient?
This is the general purpose of HIPAA.
What is to protect the privacy and security of patient health information?
Cyanosis refers to ___ coloring of the skin.
What is blue?
This is the normal range for oxygen saturation (SpO2).
What is 95%-100%?
This is the vital sign you should obtain first.
What is pain?
These are three components that should be recorded when measuring pulse.
What are rate, rhythm and character?
HIPAA stands for...
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?
This is a suffix that means breathing.
What is -pnea?
This is the normal pulse range for an adult.
What is 60-100 bpm?
This is where the radial artery is located.
What is the wrist, on the thumb side?
This is the artery you put your stethoscope on when listening for a manual blood pressure.
What is the brachial artery?
Before a patient's health information can be released to anyone else (ex: another health care provider, insurance agency, family member) a patient must sign a ___.
What is a authorization form?
This term describes a low body temperature.
What is hypothermia?
This is the normal range for respiratory rate.
These are different sites you can take a pulse (name 3).
What are temporal, carotid, brachial, radial, femoral, popliteal, posterior tibial, dorsalis pedis?
There are many causes of increased body temperature. Name 2.
What are illness, infection, exercise, excitement, and high temperatures in the environment?
You are able to share health information of your patient with the following people: (1) your patient's health care provider, (2) the nurse taking care of your patient, (3) the hospital's CEO, (4) your patient's visitor. (select all that apply)
What are 1 and 2?
(you can only share health information with direct members of your patient's health care team)
What is inflammation?
Example words: appendecitis (inflamed appendix), arthritis (inflammed joints), gastritis (inflammed stomach).
You are working as a medical assistant at a primary care office and asked to take a set of vital signs on a patient. You obtain the following values: pain: 0/10, temperature: 98.4, pulse: 89 bpm, blood pressure: 132/90 mmHg, respiratory rate: 12 per minute, SpO2: 96%. You report to the health care provider that you are concerned about this vital sign (name it).
What is blood pressure?
You are taking a manual blood pressure on your patient. After inflating the cuff, you slowly start to release the air and through your stethoscope you hear the first heartbeat. This reading represents the greatest pressure in the artery. You know this is called...
What is systolic blood pressure?
A pulse deficit is a condition that occurs with some heart conditions. This refers to apical pulse rate being ____ than the pulse rate at other pulse sites.
What is higher?
You are a nurse taking care of Jason Kelce on a medical-surgical unit at Pennsyvania Hospital. Your nurse coworker who is not on his care team asks why he is here.
True or False: This is okay information to share because the other nurse also works at the hospital.
What is false?
This prefix means low: ____ (1), and this prefix means slow: ____(2). Name these. (bonus: if you can make a combination for both of these prefixes).
What is hypo- (1) and brady- (2)? (bonus ex: hypotension and bradycaria)
What is systolic of less than 90 mmHg, and a diastolic blood pressure of less than 60 mmHg?