General Assessment
These are the two most important ways to identify your patient.
What are name and date of birth?
These areas of the body should not be compressed at the same time since that could compromise circulation.
What are carotid arteries?
This is a palpable vibration that is felt when the patient says "blue moon" or "ninety-nine."
What is tactile fremitus?
This test has the patient place their ulnar edge of their hand on their abdominal midline. The examiner places their left hand on the patient's right flank. He/she then strikes the patient's left flank using his/her right hand.
What is the fluid wave test?
This sign is rebound tenderness occurring in the right lower quadrant when pressure is applied to the left lower quadrant.
What is Blumberg's sign?
This is the single most important way to prevent infection.
What is handwashing?
This is the 5th intercostal space midclavicular line.
What is PMI?
This is a low-pitched, clear, hollow sound that predominates in healthy lung tissue.
What is resonance?
This action taps the patient's skin with short, sharp strokes.
What is percussion?
This is when the patient feels sharp pain when the examiner hold their fingers under the liver border and asks the patient to take a deep breath.
What is Murphy's sign?
This is the first step of the nursing process.
What is assess or inspect?
This is the measurement of arterial oxygen saturation.
What is pulse oximetry?
This area is usually 90 degrees and it meets at the xiphoid process.
What is the coastal angle?
This is the test when the examiner will percuss down the side of the abdomen.
What is shifting dullness?
This is when the examiner pushes the abdomen about 1 cm in all four quadrants noting areas of guarding.
What is light palpation?
This is the sequence on how to perform a lung assessment.
What is IPPA?
This is the pulse that we should listen to for one full minute.
What apical heart rate?
This is what the examiner is looking for when he/she asks the patient to take a deep breath.
What is chest expansion?
This test uses indirect fist percussion over the 12th rib.
What is Costovertebral angle tenderness?
This test is performed when appendicitis is suspected. the patient lifts the right leg straight up while the examiner pushes down over the lower part of the right thigh.
What is the Iliopsoas Muscle Test?
5-30.
What is the normal number of bowel sounds per minute?
This is an audible vibration indicating blood flow turbulence.
What is a bruit?
This is the term for listening for sounds produced by the body.
What is auscultation?
These are the two tests for ascites.
What are fluid wave test and shifting dullness?
This is when you feel a rope like mass in the abdomen.
What is fecal impaction?