Initial nursing assessment

Question 1

Give some examples of information that we need for a patient

Answer 1

• DUDE
• usual mobility
• normal behaviour
• medication
• allergies / GA reactions

Question 2

what are the two ways you can take a clinical history?

Answer 2

• pre appointment questionnaire
• in person questions

Question 3

what physical examination do you need to do when you admit a patient?

Answer 3

• mentation/behaviour
• eyes
• thorax/HR/RR
  -mm/ crt
• lymph nodes
• weight
• abdomen
• genitals
• skin/coat
• limbs

Question 4

what is blepharospasm?

Answer 4

blinking lots or squinting

Question 5

what is protopsis?

Answer 5

protruding/bulging eyes

Question 6

what is aniscoria?

Answer 6

uneven pupils

Question 7

what lymph nodes are small but able to be felt?

Answer 7

• Submandibular
• prescapular
• popliteal

Question 8

what lymph nodes is it abnormal to palpate?

Answer 8

• axillary
• inguinal

Question 9

what would a yellow mm colour indicate?

Answer 9

• liver disease
• haeemolysis

Question 10

what would a pale/white mm colour indicate?

Answer 10

• blood loss
• anaemia
• shock

Question 11

what would a brick red mm colour indicate?

Answer 11

• sepsis
• hyperthermia

Question 12

what would a blue mm colour indicate?

Answer 12

• severe hypoxaemia

Question 13

what is a normal hr for a dog, cat, rabbit, and gpig?

Answer 13

dog - 70-140
cat - 100-200
rabbit - 130-325
gpig - 230-380

Question 14

what is a normal RR for a dog, cat, rabbit, and gpig?

Answer 14

dog - 10-30
cat - 20-30
rabbit - 30-60
gpig - 90-150

Question 15

what is a normal temperature for a dog, cat, rabbit, gpig?

Answer 15

dog - 38.3-39.2
cat - 38.2-38.6
rabbit - 38.5-40
gpig - 37.2-39.5

Question 16

what clinical signs should be recorded?

Answer 16

• TPR
• medications
• procedures
• food and water intake
• urine and faeces output
• clinical signs

Question 17

what is pyrexia?

Answer 17

fever

Question 18

what is hyperthermia?

Answer 18

• high core temperature without change in the set point of hypothalamic thermoregulatory centre

Question 19

what is hypothermia?

Answer 19

• low body temperature

Question 20

what does hypokinetic means?

Answer 20

a weak pulse seen in shock and congestive heart failure

Question 21

what does pulse deficit mean?

Answer 21

the absence of palpable pulse waves in a peripheral artery for one or more heart beats

Question 22

what does pollakiuria mean?

Answer 22

frequent abnormal urination

Question 23

what does polyuria means?

Answer 23

excessive or abnormally large amount of urine

Question 24

what does stranguria means?

Answer 24

painful, frequent urination

Question 25

what does dysuria mean?

Answer 25

• difficulty in urination

Question 26

what does anuria mean?

Answer 26

• cessation of the production of urine

Question 27

what does haematuria?

Answer 27

blood in urine

Question 28

what is tachycardia?

Answer 28

increased heart rate

Question 29

what is bradycardia?

Answer 29

decreased heart rate

Question 30

what is tachypnoea?

Answer 30

slow RR

Question 31

what is bradypnoea?

Answer 31

Slow RR

Question 32

what is dyspnoea?

Answer 32

obstruction in breathing

Question 33

what is apnoea?

Answer 33

cessation in breathing

Question 34

what is cheyne-stokes?

Answer 34

alternating periods of deep rapid and shallow breaths, usually before death

Question 35

what is orthopnoea?

Answer 35

respiratory distress when in lateral recumbency

Question 36

what is paradoxical respiration?

Answer 36

thoracic walls inward on inspiration and outwards at expiration caused by increased abdominal effort

Question 37

what is haematochezia?

Answer 37

fresh blood in faeces

Question 38

what is melena?

Answer 38

old blood in faeces

Question 39

what is dyschezia?

Answer 39

difficulty in defecating