All About The Vitals
The normal range for this vital sign is 60-100.
What is heart rate?
This is what you should start if someone is not breathing or responding.
What is CPR?
Hospitals, nursing homes, law firms, correctional facilities...
What are places nurses are employed?
The artery used to measure heart rate.
What is the radial artery?
The depth (in inches) at which you should push during adult chest compressions.
What is 2 inches?
The aims of nursing are to promote ________, and prevent __________.
What are health and illness?
Assessment values that measure body's basic functions and give clues about health status.
What are vital signs?
This is the action you take to assess responsiveness in an infant.
What is tap the infants foot and shout?
The action phase of the nursing process in which nursing interventions are carried out.
What is the implementation phase?
The force of blood against the artery walls.
What is blood pressure?
The first step when arriving on the scene of a possible medical emergency.
What is make sure the scene is safe?
In class, your educators compared the nursing process to this similar method...
What is the scientific method?
The pulsatile circulatory sounds heard during auscultation of the brachial artery during blood pressure measurement.
What are korotkoff sounds?
This is what the letters AED stand for.
What is automated external defibrillator?
Nurses use the patient's response to actual or potential health problems and needs to develop these...
What are nursing diagnoses?