Lecture 1

Question 1

Creatinine clearance is to a decimal, one decimal so if they answer is 36.7 and you give 36.6 it will not count…the answer is 36.7 and if you give 36.77 its still wrong…its one decimal

Question 2

Don’t have to memorize normal lab values yet..this year will be given reference ranges but moving forward you will have to memorize them

Question 2

SOAP notes are what we will send to our health care providers with our recommendations and we will be using the conditions you learned about healthcare to write those soap notes so that you have a plan and a recommendation for something that you already learned

Question 3

If patient has asthma it would be nice to know if they are wheezing or not which can then change what the recommendation is

Question 4

If patient has heart failure it be nice to know if that’s a normal heart sound or is there a S3…need to just differentiate normal vs abnormal as opposed to diagnosing

Question 5

Why does a pharmacist need to perform physical exam? To detect ______________ in a patient…refer if we need to…we have the greatest access of pharmacists

Answer 5

abnormalities

Question 6

How do we know if a blood pressure medication is working? Take a _____________

Answer 6

blood pressure

Question 7

How do we know if a beta blocker is working? Measure ____________

Answer 7

heart rate

Question 8

How do we know if inhalers are working? Measure _____________…take a listen to some lungs

Answer 8

respiratory rate

Question 9

Pharmacist is a drug expert and needs to monitor drug therapy and you need to do that through physical exam skills

Question 10

Any abbreviations in lecture are also fair game!!

Question 11

First step in physical exam is ___________ so we are looking and observing and so if I have someone who is having trouble breathing and I’m looking at them what might I see that would indicate that they are having trouble breathing

Answer 11

inspection

Question 12

What would wheezing look like? Someone is ___________ or leaning over you see some of those muscles retract

Answer 12

gasping

Question 13

What color does someone look like who is not oxygenating?

Answer 13

Bluish,grayish

Question 14

First part of physical exam is __________… what do I see?

Answer 14

inspection.

Question 15

_________ is done only with lung exams…its done to know if there are anything in those lungs..are there fluids or infection

Answer 15

Percussion

Question 16

We also do palpation for temperature…if I’m doing a foot exam and those feet are cold what does that tell me? Poor circulation and there’s no hair growth either so poor circulation

Question 17

Palpation has to do with _________

Answer 17

pulses

Question 18

Auscultation is with a ____________________

Answer 18

stethoscope

Question 19

Pulses to know on body: brachial, radial, popliteal, dorsalis pedis

Question 20

Knowing brachial pulse will tell us how to properly place a blood pressure cuff