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health assessment
assessment
12
Nursing
Undergraduate 1
02/15/2016

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Term
list 4 ways one can assess
Definition
INSPECTION
PALPATION
ASCULTATION
PERCUSSION
Term
the bell of the stethoscope is used to hear?
Definition
HEART SOUNDS
Term
the diaphragm of he stethoscope is used to hear?
Definition
LUNG AND BOWEL SOUNDS
Term
SOUNDS HEAR WITH PERCUSSION
Definition
FLATNESS
DULLNESS
TYMPANY
Term
flatness is heard over?
Definition
muscles or bone
Term
dullness is heard over?
Definition
organs or masses
Term
tympany is heard over?
Definition
lungs, bowels and anything with air in it
Term
what is cognition?
Definition
ability to: speak, learn, reason and remember
Term
what does alert and oriented x 3 mean
Definition
person
place
time
Term
how do we check memory? ask???
Definition
what they had for lunch?
last DR.s apt
Term
what do we do to check ability to learn?
Definition
tell the pt. 3 words and ten minutes later ask them to repeat
Term
*
Definition
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