Ch 27 Health Assessment

________ is using the sense of touch to gather data and assess a patient

Collection of objective data that provides information about a change in health status

• Focused Assessment

• Ongoing Assessment

• Morse Fall Risk Assessment

• Physical Assessment

What are the four primary techniques used in a physical assessment?

• Prone, supine, sims, lithotomy

• Auscultation, percussion, palpation, inspection

• Temperature, pulse, respirations, oxygen

• Pallor, erythema, cyanosis, edema

_______ is striking an object against another to produce sound and assess organs within the body

_______ is the act of listening with a stethoscope to sounds produced within a patient's body

Which type of assessment is is conducted to assess a specific problem?

• Comprehensive Assessment

• Emergency Assessment

• Focused Assessment

• Physical

If the nurse is assessing the abdomen, what order would she perform the primary techniques?

• auscultation, palpation, percussion

• Inspection, palpation, auscultation

• Inspection, auscultation, palpation

• Percussion, inspection, palpation

__________ is performing observations to gather data about a patient

What are adventitious breath sounds?

• Breath sounds that are hollow

• Abnormal breath sounds that are not normally heard in the lungs

• Breath sounds that can only be heard on inspiration

• Breath sounds that are only heard on expiration

Which type of assessment is conducted when addressing a life threatening situation?

• Emergency

• Focused

• Physical

• Health History