Cardiac/PV
The type of rhythm that you will hear when a patient is in Afib.
What is an irregular rhythm?
This is the normal range for an adults respiratory rate.
What is 12-20?
When the nurse assesses the patients orientation, speech, behavior, alertness, cognition, and mood, they are performing this assessment.
What is the mental status exam?
This is how we check for symmetry when assessing features on the face and head.
What is inspection?
Nurses must make sure to not contaminate this area. If they do, they must start over to ensure patient protection.
What is the sterile field?
The most common cardiac subjective data that patients report.
What is chest pain?
These are to proper names for the top and bottom numbers of a blood pressure.
What are systolic and diastolic?
When taking a blood pressure, this value should be less than 120 to be considered normal.
What is the systolic blood pressure?
This is the pulse that is found behind the patient's knee.
What is the popliteal pulse?
This is the normal range for an adult's heart rate.
What is 60-100 bpm?
This might be your main concern if you find your patient with left-sided facial drooping.
What is a stroke?
If you want to auscultate the mitral valve, this is where you'll place your stethoscope.
What is the left lateral, 5th intercostal space?
When we ask a patient to puff out their cheeks, we are testing this cranial nerve.
What is Cranial Nerve 10: Vegus Nerve
If your thumb leaves an indentation in the skin, the patient likely has this type of edema.
What is pitting?
This oxygen saturation range indicates that your patient might need to be started on oxygen.
What is less than 95%?