Health Assessment

Health Assessment, part 14: Nail Assessment
Important components of assessing a patient's nails and reviews nail clubbing and capillary refill
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Health Assessment, part 13: Primary and Secondary Skin Lesions
Primary skin lesions (e.g., macule, patch, papule, plaque, wheal, vesicle, pustule, bulla, nodule, tumor) and secondary skin lesions (e.g., crust, scale, fissure, ero sion, ulcer, keloid, atrophy)
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Health Assessment, part 12: Skin Color Alterations & Edema
How to assess alterations in your patient's skin color (e.g., pallor, cyanosis, erythema, jaundice) and how to assess edema (e.g., pitting edema and non-pitting edema)
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Health Assessment, part 11: Skin Assessment
The overall components of a skin assessment and covers information about assessing skin turgor.
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Health Assessment, part 10: Pain Assessment
The different components of a pain assessment, and covers several different pain scales (e.g., CRIES, FLACC, FACES, Oucher, numeric)
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Health Assessment, part 9: Orthostatic Vital Signs
When and how to assess orthostatic vital signs, orthostatic hypotension criteria, and important patient teaching
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Health Assessment, part 8: Assessing Blood Pressure
The assessment technique when obtaining a patient's blood pressure, along with the expected blood pressure ranges by age, and levels of hypertension for adults
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Health Assessment, part 7: Assessing Oxygen Saturation
How to assess your patient's oxygen saturation, the expected oxygen saturation range, and nursing considerations when obtaining this vital sign.
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Health Assessment, part 6: Assessing Respirations
The assessment components and technique of obtaining your patient's respirations, along with expected findings (e.g., expected respiratory rate ranges, depth, rhythm, and effort), and unexpected findings (e.g., tachypnea, bradypnea, hyperventilation, hypoventilation, irregular respirations, apnea, and dyspnea).
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Health Assessment, part 5: Assessing Pulse
What and how to assess when obtaining a patient's pulse, along with the expected findings (e.g., expected ranges, regularity, strength, and equality) and unexpected findings (e.g., bradycardia, irregular pulses, pulsus alternans, and a pulse deficit).
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Health Assessment, part 4: Assessing Temperature
How to assess temperature (e.g., oral, temporal, tympanic, axillary, and rectal), the expected temperature ranges for adults, children, and infants, and nursing considerations when taking a patient's temperature.
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Health Assessment, part 3: Levels of Consciousness and Orientation, Glasgow Coma Scale
How to assess a patient's level of consciousness and orientation, and how to score a patient using the Glasgow coma scale.
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Health Assessment, part 2: Physical Assessment Steps, Beginning an Assessment, & General Survey
The general overview of physical assessments, how to begin an assessment, and what is covered by a general survey.
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Health Assessment, part 1: Physical Assessment Components
The four main types of physical assessment components (i.e., inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation) and discusses the flow of a general physical assessment and abdominal assessment.
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