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NSG 3133 PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT (2024-2025) EXAM1
psychosocial status - <<,Answers>>>a variety of topics
including:
- personal status
- mental health
- personal habits
- family/social relationships
- diet/nutrition
functional ability
- health promotion acitivities
- environment
present health - <<,Answers>>>history focusing on the
client's current acute and chronic conditions, medications, and
allergies
past health - <<,Answers>>>history focusing on childhood
illness, surgeries/hospitalizations, immunizations, last exams
and obstetric history
three - <<,Answers>>>when obtaining family history, trace
back ___ generations...
-include ages or age at death
-include any illnesses or cause of death
-biologic parents, aunts, uncles, siblings, children, and spouse
, NSG 3133 PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT (2024-2025) EXAM
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auscultation - <<,Answers>>>a technique used to listen to
sounds within the body
- listen for intensity, pitch, duration and quality
sthethoscope - <<,Answers>>>____________ blocks out
extraneous sounds when evaluating heart, blood vessels, lungs
and intestines
directly - <<,Answers>>>the stethoscope must be placed
________ on skin because clothes obscure or alter sounds
tympanic - <<,Answers>>>temperature obtained by placing a
probe into ear
- impacted by cerumen
temporal artery - <<,Answers>>>temperature obtained using
infrared technology; high level of accuracy
axillary - <<,Answers>>>temperature common among infants
and children; low level of accuracy
earpieces - <<,Answers>>>___________ on a stethoscope
may be hard or soft, should fit snugly and completely fill the
ear canal
, NSG 3133 PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT (2024-2025) EXAM
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binaurals - <<,Answers>>>___________ on a stethoscope are
metal tubes connecting the stethoscope tubing to the
earpieces. They allow the earpieces to be angled toward the
nose so sound is projected toward the tympanic membrane
tubing - <<,Answers>>>_________ on a stethoscope is no
longer than 12-18 inches (30-46cm). Anything longer than 18
inches, the sound mat become distorted
diaphragm - <<,Answers>>>flat surface with rubber or plastic
ring; used to hear high-pitched sounds
- breath, bowel, heart sounds
- used firmly
bell - <<,Answers>>>concave shape of head on stethoscope;
used to hear low-pitched sounds
- vascular
- used gently
underestimate - <<,Answers>>>if a blood pressure cuff is too
large, it can __________ blood pressure
- false low pressure
overestimate - <<,Answers>>>if a blood pressure cuff is too
small, it can ____________ blood pressure
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