Romberg test
Check for balance by having the client stanf with feet together arms at both sides and eye closed and not move for at least 5 seconds
Glasgow coma scale
Used as a based line for level on consciousness
Assessment technique for the abdomen. Select all that apply
- Inspect ( look)
- Auscultation ( hear)
- purcussion
- palpation
- Ask client to urinate before performing the test
- client will lie supine
- knees sligthly bent
- inspect in quadrants starting with the right lower quadrant to right upper left upper left lower.
Heart Sound Abnormalities
- Murmurs: blowing or stwiching sound charateristic of heart desease ( altered flow)
- Thrills : palpate vibration that can come with murmurs or cardiac malfunctions.
- Bruits: blowing switching sounds indicative of obstructed perpheral blood flow
Ausculatory sites of the heart
- Aortic: Right second intercoastal space
- Pulmonic: Left second intercoastal space
- Erb's point: Left intercoast speace
- Tricuspid: Lower left strernal border 4th intercoastal
- Mitral : left 5th intercoastal medial to misclavicular line
Lordosis
spine curves towards the abdomen
Kyphosis
( hunchback) spine curves towars the upper back and it affects the lungs because you're putting pressure towards the abdomen
Scoliosis
A lot of teen suffers from it and it is the curvature of the spine sideways
Lung sounds that are Abnormal
- Crackles(rales) : crackling sounds that can go away ( Discontinuous)
- Whezzing : a high pitch sound caused by airway construction ( continuous)
- Rhonchi : Sound like snoring ( continious)
Physical Assessment techniques (In
order)
- Inspect (look)
- Palpation ( feeling with hands and fingers)
- Percussion ( tapping)
- Ausculation ( Listening
Nursing process
APPIE
- Assess
- analyze
- plan
- implement
- evaluate
ABC FRAME WORK (PRIORITY). (SELLECT ALL THAT APPLY)
- AIRWAY
- BREATHING
- CIRCULATION
Inspection
looking with the naked eye
Palpation
feeling with hands and fingers
Auscultation
listening to sound of the body
percussion
tapping of the body parts