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| How long do you wait before taking an oral temperature if they have consumed food? |
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| What position is a rectal temperature taken at? |
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| side lying prone position |
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| What position is an axillary temperature taken at? |
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| Supine or seated position |
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| For an adult tympanic temperature reading, how do you move the pinna? |
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| for a child under age 2 for a tympanic temperature, how do you move the pinna? |
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| What are the pulse strength rates? |
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Bounding
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Weak and thready
Absent- 0 |
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| What do you d if there is a pulse deficet over 2 BPM? |
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| Check for edma and cardiovascular failure etc. |
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| Why must a patient be sitting up when checking respirations? |
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| Because laying down contracts the abdominal muscles and prevents full lung expansion |
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| what is a normal respiratory range? |
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| How long do you wait to check respirations if your patient was just excersizing? |
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| when taking blood pressure the arm position should be? |
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| how do you turn off the valve for blood pressure to begin a reading? |
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| what is pre-hypertension blood pressure readings? |
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| What is stage 2 hypertension readings look like? |
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| What do stage 2 hypertension blood pressure readings look like? |
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| absensce of heart activity |
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| how are vital sign recorded? |
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| the faster the metabolic rate will do what to temperature? |
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| the higher the temperature |
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| how does age affect temperature? |
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| in the young it's higher and in the older it's lower |
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| how does body temperature change in the day? |
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| lowest from 6-12 am. highest between 4 and 8. |
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| how do body hormones affect body temperature? |
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| excersize and emotions affect body temperature how? |
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| do not use oral temperature on? |
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| axillary temp is lower than regular temp by how much? Who don't you use it on? |
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| 1 degree F. burns on chests. upper body cast. diapheretic. covered in body dressings |
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| rectal temp is how much different than regular? who don't you use it on? |
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| 7/10 degree's F higher. clients who have siezures, leukoplakia, heart disease (stimulates vagus nerve), diarrhea |
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| better since it doesn't ruin membranes. used on 6 month and older. don't use on ppl with ear disease or surgery. |
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| how does temperature affect the elderly? |
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| severe illness doesn't affect them as much. Only a 1-2 degree change |
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| a regular pattern of fever and regular body temperatures |
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| flunctuations of 3.6 degrees F where it never reaches normal in those fluctuations |
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| pulse slows with inspiration and slows with expiration |
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| who have the fastest heart rates? |
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| pain, body temperature, drugs, excersize, emotions, a decrease in blood volume, and illness |
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| where is the apical pulse? |
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| what pulse do you always use for children? |
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| abdominal breathing. common in infants and children |
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| costal breathing. found in women and older children |
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| who has the fastest respirations? |
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