This is the least accurate route to measure body temperature, and should be used as a last resort:

Make sure the patient has not ate or drank anything and if they have wait about _____ minutes to take their temperature

For children less than 12 months pull the pinna of the ear _______ and _______. This straightens the ear canal. (Route: Tympanic)

Insert the oral the thermometer into the patients mouth, under the _______.

Which thermometer is used starting at the center of the forehead and swept across the forehead to the hairline?

Find the pulse of the patient’s _______ artery by using the index and middle fingers. Never use the _______ to find the patient’s pulse because the ______ has its own pulse.

Count the respiratory rate right _______ counting the heart rate. To do this, keep you fingers on the radial site and look at the rate of breathing, depth, and rhythm. The patient should be _________ you are counting the respiratory rate so they don’t change their rate of breathing.

Count respirations for 30 seconds if ________ and multiply by 2, if respirations are ________ count for 1 minute.

Remember ______ breath in and _______ breath out equals 1 respiration.

Blood pressure

Palpate the ________ artery with your first three fingers: It’s found in the bend of the arm, closest to the patient.

Blood pressure

Secure the cuff about ______ inches above the bend of the arm on the patient and line up the arrow of the cuff with the _______ artery.

Blood pressure:

Inflate the cuff to _______ mmHg

Blood pressure

Let the needle of the gauge fall about 2 mmHg per second. The first sound you hear if the _______ number. The last sound you hear if the _______ number.