Chapter 20 key terms questions Flashcards
What is the major difference between a general assessment and specific or focused assessment as far as how you would begin?
Part of the general assessment, the nurse will observe the patients appearance and behavior than go into vitals. Specific or focused assessments are done after the general assessment where a detailed health history will be done.
- Name what each position is best for: Supine
easy to assess critical anatomy like your neck, chest, abdomen, pulses
Name what each position is best for: Fowler
comfortable for those short of breath, there is also high fowler.
What are the four assessment techniques and examples:
Inspection, palpitation, percussion, and auscultation
Inspection
viewing the patient, hands off. Look at their overall affect, hygiene, appearance
Palpitation-
- palpating the pulses (brachial, radial, popliteal, dorsal pedis, plantar) listening for crepitus or looking at any signs of pain (palpating the abdomen, sinuses).
Percussion
taping the body to locate or approximate the size, shape, location of organs, masses, and fluids.
Auscultation
listening. When we listen to breath, bowel, pulses, heart
A nurse notes that a patient has patches of white skin around their eyes and mouth and parts of their arms due to lack of melanin. This patient likely has what?
Albinism
A Nurse notes a blue discoloration around the nose and eyes of an infant, this is likely caused by what?
Cyanosis
A nurse is assessing a patient with end stage liver failure. The nurse will likely notate what characteristic of the patient’s skin?
Jaundice, yellowing
Which part of the stethoscope is used for bowel sounds?
The diaphragm
A nurse can be most efficient in educating about melanoma and tanning beds if she targets which group?
Teen-35. Research indicates that indoor tanning before the age of 35 increase the chance of melanoma by 59%. P. 336
The nurse is assessing male genitalia. What are some assessment factors she will focus on?
Look for lumps, bumps, lesions, scabbing, infestation. If the male is uncircumcised, gently pull back the foreskin to inspect (clean if necessary) and ensure it placed back over the head of the penis to avoid infection or loss of use.
When assessing the abdomen, the nurse knows that she must complete it in a different order which is?
Inspect, auscultate, palpate. Remember that the abdomen is divided into four quadrants and the large intestine ascends from right lower into the right upper where it transverses across to the left upper and descends to the left lower quadrant.