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| When do you begin general inspection and what is involved? |
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| As soon as you meet em and u will look at physical appearance and hygience, body structure, body movement, emotional and mental status, and behavior |
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| Baseline indicators of a client's health include |
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| measurement of vital signs(temp, heart rate, respiratory rate, BP, and oxygen saturation), height, and weight |
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| Oral, Tympanic, Axillary, Rectal, |
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| How long do you wait before checking someone's temp if they have consumed something? |
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| How long for a electronic oral temp? |
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| What age group is axillary temp taken on? |
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| Is the axillary accurate? |
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| How deep do you stick a rectal temp? |
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| Assessment of the respiratory rate involves |
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| counting the number of times the client completes a ventilatory cycle each minute |
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| How do men and women differ in breathing? |
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| Men-Diaphragmatically, stomach, women- thoracic, chest |
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| Factors that increase resp rate |
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| Fever, anxiety, exercise, and increased altitude |
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| Deep(full lung expansion), normal, shallow(small lung in and out) |
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| force of blood against the arterial walls |
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| volume of blood ejected from the heart each minute |
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| force that opposes the flow of blood thorugh vessels |
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| millimeters of mercury mm Hg |
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| top number. maximum pressure exerted on arteries when the ventricles eject blood from the heart |
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| Bottom Number. Minimum amount of pressure exerted on the vessels or ventricles of heart relax |
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| difference btwn diastolic and systolic, 30-40 mm Hg |
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| Initial one is the systolic and has a sharp thump |
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| Physiologic Factors that AFfect BP Measurements |
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| Age, Genderm Race, Diurnal Variations(time of day), Emotions, Pain, Personal Habits, Weight |
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| Girls lower after puberty than males, and women higher after menopause |
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| Hypertension is twice as high in African Amer |
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| Caffeine or Smoking within 30 min may increase BP |
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| Errors Resulting in High BP |
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| arm above level of chest, cuff too narrow, wrapping cuff too loosely or unevenly, deflating cuff too slowly, feinflating cuff w/ocompletely deflating it, failure to wait 1-2 min for remeasurement |
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| Errors Resulting in Lower BP |
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| Positioning arm below level of heart, positioning manometer above heart, cuff too wide, not inflating cuff enuf, deflating the cuff too rapidly, pressing the diaphragm too firmly on brachial artery |
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| Oxygen Saturation is measured by |
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| a pulse oximeter to estimate the oxygen saturation of hemoglobin in blood. lower than 90% is abnormal |
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| For every liter of fluid retained, weight..... |
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| Body weight is influenced by |
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| genetics, dietary intake, exercise, and fluid volume |
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| Genetics and dietary intake |
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