Skin Assessment
This is the part of the hand used to assess skin temperature.
What is the dorsal side?
Unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) can perform this activity.
What are vital signs?
This is used to test visual acuity.
What is the Snellen Chart?
The term "lub, dub" describes these two heart sounds.
What are S1 and S2?
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 is how you instruct the client to place their feet when taking their blood pressure.
This is the distance the client should stand from the Snellen Chart.
What is 20 feet?
This is the only valve heard on the right sternal border.
What is the aortic?
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?
This is the recommended frequency for eye exams.
What is yearly?
This is the area of the heart where S1 and S2 can be heard equally.
What is Erb's Point?
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?
Jaundice will first appear in this location.
What is the sclera?
These two changes in vital signs can be seen in the elderly client.
What is increased BP and decreased temperature?
This is what PERRLA stands for.
What is pupils are equal, round, reactive to light, and accommodation?
The apex of the heart is located here.
What is the 5th intercostal space, midclavicular line?
What is left-sided heart failure?