Health Assessment 1 Flashcards
1
Q
Collection patient data with specific skills?
A
- Inspection
- Palpation
- Percussion
- Auscultation
2
Q
What is subjective data?
A
Information gathered from what patients tell us
3
Q
What is objective data?
A
Information gathered that are numerical (vital signs)
4
Q
Primary survey of A-E assessment
A
- Airway (talking? normal sounds?)
- Breathing (R rate? SpO2? chest movements?
- Circulation (Pulse, capillary refill time?)
- Disability (consciousness, mental health chart, drugs)
- Exposure (Temperature)
5
Q
What are focused body systems?
A
- Assessments of specific body systems (Gastrointestinal, circulatory)
6
Q
What is inspection?
A
- Visual inspection of a patient
- comparing bilaterally for symmetry
7
Q
What is palpation?
A
- Assessment of a patient using your hands
8
Q
List the pulses?
A
- Temporal
- Carotid
- Brachial
- Radial
- Femoral
- Popliteal
- Posterior tibial
- Dorsalis pedis
9
Q
What is percussion?
A
Assessment using tapping with your fingers and hands to examine a patient.
10
Q
What is auscultation?
A
- Assessment technique by listening to sounds the body makes of a patient.
11
Q
What is the importance of Vital signs?
A
- Results provide an indication of persons systemic function
- Objective evidence
12
Q
Respiration?
A
Average: 12-20 breaths per minute
13
Q
Factors that can affect respiration rate?
A
- strong emotion
- medications
- pain
- recent exercise
- some medical conditions
14
Q
Alterations in breathing patterns?
A
- Apnoea: pause in breath pattern
- Bradypnoea: Slow abnormal breaths (less than 12 per minute)
- Tachypnoea: Fast abnormal breaths (more than 20 breaths per minute)
- Hyperventilation: rate and depth of R inscrease
- Hypoventilation: rate and depth of R decreases
15
Q
Signs of acute respiration distress?
A
- Flared nostrils
- Cyanosis
- Intercostal muscle movements
- anxious look
- Tracheal tug
