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| What can limit accuracy in a patients report? |
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| Sensory deprivation, Emotional constraints, Language barriers, Cultural barriers, Unresponsive/comatose patient |
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| What are the goals of the examination sequence? |
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| Process flows smoothly, minimizes the number of times that the patient has to change positions, and conserves patient energy |
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| True or false: general inspection of a patient can begin in the waiting room. |
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| Where do you palpate the liver boarder? |
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Definition
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| Where do you palpate the spleen? |
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| Where do you palpate the kidneys? |
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| Where do you palpate for aortic pulsation? |
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| What tasks test fine motor function and coordination in the upper extremity? |
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Touch nose with alternating index fingers
Rapidly alternate fingers to thumb
Rapidly move index finger b/t the patients nose and the examiners finger |
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| What tasks test fine motor function and coordination in the lower extremity? |
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Run heel down tibia of the opposite leg
Alternately and rapidly cross leg over opposite knee |
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| What is the Apgar score and when is it taken? |
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Definition
| Provides insight to the baby's in utero, intrapartum, and immediate postnatal experience. Taken at 1-5 minutes of age |
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| True or false: most babies have blue fingers and toes. |
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| True. This is why color is the least reliable of Apgar observations |
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| What characteristics lower the Apgar score? |
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| Depressed heart rate, respiratory difficulty, loss of muscle tone, and decreased reflex |
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| What does the Apgar score NOT address? |
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| Increased irritability, tachypnea, or tachycardia |
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| What are indicators of gestational age? |
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Definition
| creases on the sole of the foot, breast nodule, presence of cartilage in the helix of the ear, position of testes, rugae. At 36 weeks these things are underdeveloped, by 40 weeks they are more developed |
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| What is the "social smile" in an infant? |
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| Smile that you know is meant for you, expected to see from 2-3 months of age |
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| Activities of daily living. Commonly assessed in older patients |
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| Bathing, dressing , tolieting, ambulation, feeding |
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| What are instrumental ADLs? |
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| Housekeeping, grocery shopping, meal preparation, medication compliance, communication skills, money management |
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