NURS 3120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Vital Signs, Constipation, Palpitations
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How do you sleep sitting up, o2, sleep apnea machine. Travel out of us in recent weeks/months. Patients/clients will most commonly complain of cough, sob and chest pain with breathing. Our symptom analysis should include onset, location & duration, Other symptoms noted, degree of severity of event. Your patient has a coughwith or without chest pain. Have them describe cough , dry/hacking, productive (what does sputum look. Cough keep them up at night or wake them from a sleep. Have they tried any remedies, if yes did they work. Your patient/client complains of shortness of breath Other problems when you are sob do you feel weak or shaky. Look at your patient what is their general appearance . Shallow, rapid respirations or slow and effortless. Assess skin, nail beds and lips for appropriate color/perfusion. Auscultation of anterior & posterior breath sounds. C/o substernal pain made worse by coughing. Auscultation reveals wheezing after cough and/or rhonchi/rales.
