TUMMY TIME
You are looking for this when inspecting the abdomen
What are contour and symmetry?
Location to begin palpation of the spleen
What is the upper left quadrant?
What is vertigo?
The natural tendency to see others from a perspective limited by our life experience
What is implicit bias?
Helping the woman stabilize her feet in the stirrups and slide her buttocks down to the edge of the examining table
What is the lithotomy position?
The sound heard over the liver during percussion
What is dullness?
Purple discoloration of the flank
What is Grey-Turner sign?
Inability to perform purposeful actions
What is Apraxia?
Cultural humility is active engagement in a lifelong process of self-evaluation & self-critique that an individual engages in to correct the power imbalances that exist in the dynamics of patient-clinician communication
What is cultural humility?
Observe with this body part with arms extended overtheir head or flexed behind the neck, hands pressed on hips with shoulder rolled forward, seated and leaning over, and in a recumbent position
What is inspection of the breast?
The length of time you listen in each quadrant if you do not hear bowel sounds
What is 5 minutes?
A bruit heard on auscultation of the abdomen just to the left lateral area of the umbilicus indicates this condition.
What is an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA)?
Mental, Cranial, Motor, Reflexes, sensory, coordination, gait & stance
What are the 7 neurological assessments?
An ideology that ascribes beliefs of inferiority to physical and cultural differences among people, places people in a hierarchy and perpetuates inequality and privilege.
What is racism?
palpation as if your fingers were a lawnmower
What is breast examination?
The sound that may occur from an abdominal aortic aneurysm
What is a bruit?
This sound is heard on abdominal auscultation when a person's stomach is "growling"
What is borborygmus?
Indicates the status of the central nervous system (specifically the corticospinal pathway) in both the conscious and unconscious patient.
What are reflexes?
a universal tendency to assign simplistic explanations to complex phenomena and generalize those explanations to an entire category in such a way that individual differences are rejected
What is stereotyping?
BONUS:
what is otherizing?
Protrusion of a peritoneal-lined sac through some defect in the abdominal wall
What is a hernia?
A location to assess an adult client's kidneys for tenderness
What is the costovertebral angle?
BONUS:
Where is it located?
LOCATION OF Liver, Gallbladder, Duodenum, Head of the pancreas, Right kidney and adrenal, Hepatic flexure of the colon, part of ascending and transverse colon.
What is the Right Upper Quadrant (RUQ)?
The patient extends and raises both arms in front of them as if they were carrying a pizza for a count of 10.
What is testing for Pronator Drift?
BONUS:
What might it indicate if the patient drops their arm without pronating it?
Giving everyone the same thing, versus giving everyone the same opportunity
What is the difference between equality and equity?
Can occur from:Thrombosis of veins of corpora cavernosa, usually from trauma,Leukemia, Sickle cell disease, Spinal lesion,Use of erectile dysfunction medications, Diabetes mellitus, Malignancies, some psychotropic drugs, antidepressants, cocaine, ecstasy, marijuana, prolonged sexual activity
What is priaprism?