Normal Aging Adults
Normal findings for Eyes, Nose, Mouth, & Throat
What is wrinkling and drooping facial skin, decreased tear production, and decreased ability to adapt to darkness ?
True or False : Lymph flows quicker than blood
What is False ?
The cranial nerve you are testing when the patient smiles, frowns, wrinkles the forehead, and puffs out their cheeks
What is CN VII ?
The order in which you assess the abdomen
What is Inspection, Auscultation, Percussion, Palpation ?
Normal vital sign ranges
What is temperature 96.4-99.1
heart rate 50-95
blood pressure <120/<80
respirations 10-20
pulse oximetry >95% (97-99% on room air)
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Systolic blood pressure rises with age due to what physiological change?
What is peripheral blood vessels becoming more rigid ?
The greatest influence on health status
What is Economic Status ?
These cranial nerves are responsible for extraocular eye movement
What are CN III, IV, & VI ?
Before starting a health assessment, a nurse should ensure...
What is that the room is private, warm, quiet, and adequately lit ?
The articulation of the mandible and temporal bone
What is the temporomandibular joint ?
The reason decreased height occurs
What is the vertebral column shortens ?
Education for a patient with high cholesterol
What is exercise 150 minutes per week, consume more healthy oils instead of butters, eat good fiber in the diet, eat a diet low in saturated fats ?
The cranial nerve responsible for hearing and balance
What is CN VIII ?
Name the organs of the lymphatic system
A loss of bone density causes this condition
What is osteoporosis ?
How a normal older adult male might look
What is skin dry and wrinkled, gray hair, and wearing reading glasses ?
The amount of time you auscultate each area of the chest when listening to lung sounds
What is one full respiratory cycle (an inspiration and exhalation) ?
What you will see if cranial nerve XI is intact
What is the patient moves their head and shoulders against resistance with equal strength ?
The appropriate nursing action if you hear low-pitch, coarse snoring sounds on inhalation during assessment.
What is ask your patient to cough, and listen to them again ?
This causes clubbing of the fingernails
What is cardiac or pulmonary disease ?
We know that the gut slows down as people get older, people get shorter, they create less saliva, things shrink on women and become pendulous on men. Is it true or false that older adults have a decreased ability to identify odors?
What is true ?
The Franciscan Value for the 2022-2023 school year
What is serve one another, society, and the Church ?
The test when the patient removes their shoes, stands with both feet together, holds their arms next to their body (or crosses them across their chest), stands for 30 seconds with eyes open, and then should hold same position with eyes closed for ~15 seconds (stand close to the patient for safety in case they cannot balance!)
What is the Romberg test ?
The reason the pulse is more difficult to palpate in older adults
What is the blood vessels become stiffer ?
The 2 functions of the lymphatic system
What is to form a major part of the immune system & conserve fluid and plasma proteins that leak out of the capillaries ?