TERMINOLOGY
ASSESSMENT
HEAD,NECK & EYES
LUNGS/HEART
MYSTERY CATEGORY
100
Occurs when pupils constrict and converge to focus on objects at close range.
What is accommodation?
100
Used to auscultate bruits
What is the bell of the stethoscope?
100
Occipital, submental, submandibular, preauricular
What are lymph nodes?
100
High pitched, discontinuous sounds similar to the sound produced by rubbing your hair between your fingers
What are crackles?
100
Wash your hands
What is the first thing you should do when entering the exam room?
200
One side is the same as the other in regards to size, shape, and relative position of corresponding parts.
What is symmetry?
200
Correct patient positioning for palpating the abdomen
What is with knees bent?
200
Note rise of soft palate and uvula
What is having patient open mouth and say "ahh?"
200
Cardiac auscultation sites
What are aorta, pulmonic, Erb's, tricuspid and mitral?
200
I am going to auscultate your abdomen for bruits and palpate for masses.
What is, what not to say when examining your patient's abdomen?
300
Seen when a direct light source is reflected from the retina
What is a red reflex?
300
Three questions to ask to assess A&O x 3
What is What is your name? Where are you? What day of the week is it?
300
Full, bounding, irregular, weak, absent
What are words to describe peripheral pulses?
300
Reading off your note cards
What is a way to lose points during the final PE?
400
PERRLA
What are pupils, equal, round, reactive to light, accommodation?
400
3 positions to examine the heart
What are sitting, supine and side-lying?
400
Rales, Ronchi and Wheezes
What is adventitious breath sounds
400
Chin to chest, ear to shoulder, turn head side-to-side
What are ways to assess motion of the cervical spine?
500
Inversion
What is turning the foot inward?
500
Rosenbaum and Jaeger cards
What are devices used to assess near vision?
500
Lateral, posterior, anterior
What are the areas of the lung to auscultate?