NURSING 1J02- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 98 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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Assessment techniques & the clinical setting (jarvis chpt 9) Cultivating your senses: use sight, smell, touch and hearing to gather data inspection, palpation, percussion, auscultation, performed in this order. Context of care: exam environment should be warm and comfortable, private, quiet and well-lit, exam table should be at a comfortable height so practitioner may examine patient without stooping, bedside stand/table should be present to place all equipment. Fetoscope (auscultating fetal heart tones) goniometer (measure joint rom: doppler sonometer, pelvimeter (measure pelvic width) age-appropriate toys infant soother. General approach: consider emotional state anxiety can be reduced in patient by examiner being confident, self-assured, considerate and unhurried: practice makes perfect! (and increases examiner confidence) Level of consciousness and orientation components of a mental status assessment p. g 88-89 jarvis. Posture is erect, and position is relaxed: body movements. Body movements are voluntary, deliberate, cooridanted, smooth, and even: dress. Dress is appropriate for setting, season, age, gender, and social group.
