General
TPR & BP
What is temperature, pulse, respirations, and blood pressure?
What is 97.6 F to 99.6 F?
Normal range for Pulse
What is 60-100 bpm?
Normal range for respirations
What is 12-20 respirations per minute?
Normal range for systolic blood pressure
What is 90-119
When are vital signs the most accurate
What is when the patient is at rest?
Ways to obtain a temperature on a patient
What are oral, axillary, rectal, tympanic, and temporal?
Where to check a radial pulse
What is the thumb side of the wrist?
Process that supplies oxygen to cells and removes carbon dioxide from cells
What is respiration?
Normal range for diastolic blood pressure
What is 60-79?
Analog watch observation when counting respirations and pulse
What is the second hand?
Supplies for rectal temperature
What is red thermometer and lubricant?
Location of brachial pulse
What is the pinky side of the arm at the bend of the arm?
Length of time to count respirations
What is one full minute?
Pulse checked prior to obtaining blood pressure
What is brachial pulse?
Fifth (5th) vital sign?
What is pain?
Rectal temperature, action nurse aide avoids at all cost
What is let go of the thermometer probe?
Equipment needed to check apical pulse
What is a stethoscope?
What do we observe as one single respiration?
What is chest rise (inspiration) and fall (expiration)?
What equipment do we use to check blood pressure?
What are alcohol swabs, pen/paper, stethoscope, and sphygmomanometer?
What do you do when you obtain an abnormal vital sign?
What is report it to the nurse (supervisor)?
How long do you have to wait after a patient consuming food, drink, or tobacco products to check an oral temperature?
What is 15 minutes?
How long do we check a pulse for?
What is 1 minute?
When checking respirations, what do you call telling your patient you are doing something else?
What are stealth respirations?
What do we call when the heart is at rest?
What is diastole?