Head & Face
Assessing that both sides of the patient's face look the same.
What is facial symmetry?
Yellowing of the sclera.
What is jaundice?
Three tests that test hearing.
What are the whisper, weber, and rhine hearing tests?
Meaning of dry lips
What is dehydration?
A condition that may induce thyroid changes in women.
What is pregnancy?
Purpose for asking the patient to open and close their mouth.
What is assessing the temporomandibular joint?
PERRLA represents these things.
What are pupils, equal, round, reactive to light, and accommodating?
Name four things the RN inspects for an ear assessment.
What is drainage, skin breakdown, lumps, color, tenderness, and temperature, hearing tests?
Name two internal structures of the nose.
What are the turbinates and septum?
What is a goiter?
Painful palpation of the sinuses.
What is a sinus infection?
The process for testing pupil accommodation.
What is moving your finger or a penlight from 12 inches away to 1 inch towards the eye?
Guidelines for Pinna in adults versus children.
What is pull pinna up and back in adults and down and back in children?
Meaning of the following colors of the gum: pink, red, pale
What is normal? What is infection? What is anemia?
Tongue inspection includes looking for these things.
What are color, surface characteristics, and moisture?
Name four things the RN is looking for when assessing the patient's head.
What is size, symmetry, position, movement of head, pain, redness, parasites, tenderness, bumps, or lumps?
Name three parts of a thorough eye assessment.
What are eyelids, eyelashes, lacrimal ducts and glands, conjunctivae, and sclera?
Steps of the Whisper test.
What is stand behind patient, whisper a word with one ear covered, and ask patient to repeat the word?
Two reasons for asking the patient to say "AHHHH".
What is assessing for midline rise of uvula and internal inspection of mucosal membranes?
The process of lymph node assessment.
What is palpate using a circular motion and compare side to side?
Name at least three things the RN is assessing when palpating the skull.
What are tenderness, masses, redness, pus and drainage?
The action of the eyes during accommodation.
What is a pupillary constriction when following an object from far to near and convergence of the axes of the eyes (cross-eyed).
Identify a common ear problem and expected characteristics.
What is acute otitis media bulging redness and inflammation of the tympanic membrane?
Name three things the RN is inspecting the external nose and sinuses for.
What are redness, lumps, asymmetry and skin breakdown?
Normal findings of lymph nodes in adults.
What is <1 cm and not easily palpable?