Skin Assessment
This is the part of the hand used to assess skin temperature.
What is the dorsal side?
This vital sign completed by an Unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) should be verified by the nurse if abnormal.
What is blood pressure?
This is used to test visual acuity.
What is the Snellen Chart?
This is how the nurse should palpate the carotid artery.
What is one side at a time?
The part of the cardiac cycle when the ventricles relax and fill with blood.
Shingles is described as this type of lesion.
What is a vesicle?
This category is used for a client with a BMI of 26.1.
What is overweight?
This test is used to assess hearing acuity.
What is the whispered voice test?
Symptoms of this disorder can include goiter, tachycardia, exophthalmos, weight loss, and warm moist skin.
What is Grave's Disease (hyperthyroidism)?
A gentle blowing or swooshing sound that can be heard on the chest wall.
What is a murmur?
This is the best place to check skin turgor.
What is below the clavicle?
This is how long you should listen to an irregular pulse.
What is one minute?
Thick, raised, white patches on the tongue from recent antibiotic use.
What is candidiasis (yeast)?
The term for the two areas of the infant's skull that allow for brain growth during the first year.
What are "soft spots" or fontanels?
What are obesity, smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, sedentary lifestyle, smoking, and stress?
A diameter greater than this is concerning for melanoma in the ABCDEF skin assessment.
What is 6 mm?
These two vital signs have a direct relationship. When one goes up the other goes up.
What are pulse and respirations?
This is what is being assessed when having a client follow the penlight with their eyes in the following directions: up/right, right, down/right, down/left, left, and up/left.
What are the six cardinal positions of gaze?
This is the side of the stethoscope that you would use to assess a carotid bruit.
What is the bell?
Heart failure on this side of the heart has symptoms of jugular vein distention, edema, and ascites.
What is right-sided heart failure?
What is a macule?
These two changes in vital signs can be seen in the elderly client.
What is increased BP and decreased temperature?
The expected palpable characteristics of normal cervical lymph nodes.
What is mobile, soft, and nontender?
The expected palpable characteristics of normal cervical lymph nodes.
What is mobile, soft, and nontender?
What is left-sided heart failure?