Physical Assessment
the importance of a physical assessment
What is a patient baseline?
normal heart rate
60- 100 beats per minute
pneumonia, hypertension, stroke are all what types of diagnoses
What is medical diagnosis?
a life threatening patient is what priority
What is high priority?
ADPIE stands for....
Assessment, Diagnosis, Planning, Implementation, Evaluation
Pain is an example of
What is subjective data?
Pulse located on the top of the foot
What is dorsalis pedis?
assessment on one body system
What is a focused assessment?
trust, taking responsibility, and motivating others are example of
What is a leader?
a normal heart rate range
What is 60-100 beats per minute
Order of the abdomen assessment
What is Inspect, Auscultation, Percussion, and Palpation?
time body temperature is at its lowest
What is 1am to 4am?
five steps to the nursing process (in order)
What is assessing, diagnosing, planning, implementing, and evaluating?
person that helps patients with services that accept their insurance
What is case manager?
Vital signs, skin wounds, capillary refill are examples of..... (in physical assessment)
What is objective data?
4th to 5th intercoastal space along the sternum
What is the tricuspid heart sound?
should take two nurses to assess this
What is apical-radial pulse?
most important Maslow's Hierarchy of Human Needs
What is physiologic needs?
Nurse assigned to 5 patients is called
What is primary nursing?
effective communication is important to develop...
What is a patient to nurse relationship?
best time for self breast exams
What is the 4th-7th day of menstrual cycle or right after?
the sound changes when taking a blood pressure is called
What is korotkoff sounds?
Patient's wound will have no signs of infection on this shift.
example of what?
What is a patient outcome?
Five rights to delegation
What is right task, right circumstance, right person, right direction, and right supervision?
4 types of outcomes in the nursing process
What is cognitive, psychomotor, affective, and physiologic?