Assesment Techniques

Question 1

Using your sense of touch, what can you evaluate?

Answer 1

Texture, temperature, moisture, pulsation, tenderness

Question 2

What does resonant sound like?

Answer 2

Clear hollow tones heard over normal lung tissue

Question 3

What does hyperresonant sound like?

Answer 3

Booming tones over lungs with increased air such as a child’s or an adult with emphysema.

Question 4

What does tympany sound like?

Answer 4

Musical and drum like tones heard over air filled stomach or intestines

Question 5

What does dull sound like

Answer 5

Muffled thud heard over dense organs such as liver or spleen

Question 6

What does flat sound like

Answer 6

Brief tone heard over bone or tumor

Question 7

What is the diaphragm of the stethoscope used for

Answer 7

For high pitched sounds such as breath, bowel, and normal heart sounds

Question 8

What is the bell of the stethoscope used for?

Answer 8

For low pitched sounds such as murmurs or extra heart sounds

Question 9

How do we prevent the spread of infection?

Answer 9

Clean room, equipment and hands

Question 10

What are standard precautions?

Answer 10

Used to help prevent transmission of disease for every patient in any health care setting

Hand hygiene
Use of appropriate PPE
Cough etiquette

Question 11

What are the additional precautions

Answer 11

Contact precautions ( MRSA, VRE, varicella)

Droplet precaution ( flu)

Airborne precaution ( TB, varicella)