Ethical Principles
Accepting responsibility for the consequences of one's own actions.
What is accountability?
This type of data is collected during an initial visit and includes current and past health information to form a baseline for future visits.
What is the initial/complete assessment?
This is the information that the client tells you.
What is subjective data?
Rapid, shallow breathing of > 24 respirations per minute.
What is tachypnea?
A vibration on the chest wall that is felt during palpation.
What is tactile fremitus?
Being honest, even when the truth may lead to distress in others
What is veracity?
This type of data is collected when a client presents with a specific problem.
What is focused or problem-centered assessment?
This is the information that you observe during the assessment.
What is objective data?
Continuous musical lung sounds that are more prominent on expiration.
What are wheezes?
What are bronchovesicular?
Fairness in distributing care to each individual.
What is justice?
This type of data evaluates an identified problem at regular intervals.
What is a follow-up or ongoing assessment?
This protects the privacy of a patient's health information.
What is HIPAA?
Discontinuous, discrete popping lung sounds heard during inspiration.
What are crackles?
High-pitched loud breath sounds that are best heard during expiration near the trachea and larynx.
What are bronchial (tracheal)?
The right of all clients to have their own opinions, values, and beliefs.
What is autonomy?
This type of data is collected rapidly while providing lifesaving measures.
What is the emergency assessment?
This is the type of data collected during the review of systems.
What is subjective data?
Increase in rate and depth of breathing.
What is hyperventilation?
Low-pitched soft breath sounds that are best heard during inspiration over the peripheral lung fields.
What are vesicular?
Keeping one's promise and staying true to one's word.
What is fidelity?
This level of priority includes emergent, life-threatening, and immediate problems.
This is the type of data collected during the physical assessment.
What is objective data?
A type of respiration in which respirations gradually wax and wane in a regular pattern with periods of apnea.
The low-pitched, clear, hollow sound that predominates in healthy lung tissue during percussion.
What is resonance?