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Musculoskeletal:
Vital Signs:
Review the assessment of all vital signs including BP, HR, respirations,
temperature and pulse ox.
Think about how you would handle VS outside of range for each VS and Spo2
What trends in VS are worrisome and how should the RN respond?
Review normal values for VS: BP, HR, respirations, temperature and pulse ox
across the lifespan
When may it be inappropriate to delegate VS?
Module 4-7:
When you obtain your assessment data, what is the next step in the process ?
After implementing a new teaching plan, what is the next step (using the nursing
process?)
In order to create a nursing diagnosis, what details do you reference?: A. the medical
diagnosis or B. the Nursing assessment?
When prioritizing the nursing diagnoses, what goes first, your actual diagnoses or the
“risk for” diagnoses.
Respiratory/Cardiac:
Review various lab data and normal values: BUN, electrolytes, CBC, blood
glucose
Review the common adventitious lungs sounds (wheezes, pleural friction rub,
rhonchi, crackles and stridor) and what specific conditions you would
auscultate them (COPD, pneumonia, asthma, CHF)
Review respiratory terminology: dyspnea, cyanosis, tachypnea, bradypnea,
apnea in beginning of Chap 38
Review the ACUTE and Chronic effects of hypoxia on the respiratory system
and the rest of the body.
Review the anatomical locations for auscultation of cardiac and respiratory
systems (aortic, pulmonic, tricuspid and mitral)
Review how to determine types of pitting edema: 1+, 2+, 3+ and 4+
Review interventions to decrease risks for pulmonary embolism
Review grading of pulses: bounding, normal, diminished, absent
Review the stages of pressure ulcers including I, II, II and VI ulcers as well as
unstageable and suspected deep tissue injury
Review integumentary changes in various developmental ages
Glucose Regulation:
Gastrointestinal:
Genitourinary: