Gather equipment

Perform hand hygeine

Clean stethescope

Inspection

Palapation

Percussion

Auscultation

Consciously observing patients

Performed for every bdy part and system

Overall observation = General Survey

Good lighting is essential

Adequate exposure of each body part

Appropriate labeling and documenting of each finding

Assessment of pt through touch

Using different parts of hand depending on the data you are gathering

Light palpaion vs. mod to deep

Produces sounds or elicits tenderness

-dense tissue

-traveling through air

Indirect and Direct

Tone

Pitch/Frequency

Duration

Quality

Listen for sounds produced by the body

common assessments

stethescope which conducts sounds and blocks environmental noise

pregnant women

newborn infants

children and adolescents

older adults