Physical Assessment Required Components Nursing Process Required Components General survey 1. General appearance & behavior 2. Posture 3. Gait 4. Hygiene 5. Speech 6. Mental Status 7. Vital Signs 8. Nutritional Status Head and Neck 1. Symmetry 2. Head & hair 3. Ears/Hearing 4. PERRL(A) 5. EOM 6. Convergence/Accommodation 7. Color/condition conjunctiva 8. Color/condition of mucus membranes 9. Nose 10. Mouth/teeth 11. ROM of neck 12. Cervical nodes 13. Palpate trachea for symmetry 14. Carotids
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refer to beauty‚ Notre Dame De Paris comes into my mind. Esmeralda and Quasimodo are good examples of physical beauty and inner beauty. Both of them are lucky because they have at least one of the characteristics. In my opinion‚ either physical beauty or inner beauty is significant. Like the majority of people‚ I am usually attracted by fashion beauty when walking on street. As we can see‚ physical beauty can be easily recognized. Many people could make a living by virtue of it. There are several
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consider love to be important anymore. The woman in ‘The Manhunt’‚ however‚ knows that her partner loves her‚ but prioritises his recovery over passion. The ‘blown hinge of his lower jaw’ could represent either a physical injury from his war‚ or the fact that he can’t talk about his trauma – is he injured or emotionally closed? Unlike the Farmer from ‘The
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TRAUMA SYSTEMS Rural Trauma and Emergency Medical Service Challenges in a Sample of Western States Jolene R. Whitney‚ MPA; Susan Werner‚ MAS; Susan Wilson‚ BSN; Neis Sanddal‚ PhD; Vicki Conditt‚ RN; Peggy Sale‚ MSN; Clay Mann‚ PhD; Jennie Nemec‚ RN; Johnathan J. Jones‚ BSN; Grace Sandeno‚ MPH; Diane Hartford‚ MS of providing emergency medical services to largely rural states include geographic barriers of vast expanses of unpopulated landmass‚ provision of services across mountain
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The conclusion of their empirical studies was a direct correlation. Consequently‚ there is a risk of raised intra cranial pressure‚ (ICP) in this patient. McMillian and Roger‚ (2009) result also corroborates Gregory and Ward‚ (2010) which list head trauma as one of the causes of ICP. In this scenario‚ the aetiology would be that the force of impacting ball compromised the protective layer of the delicate brain organs (cerebral cortex‚ cerebellum and the brain stem) Sanders‚ et al. (2010) this may rupture
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are what trauma nurses live for. They treat patients in state of emergency and handle different situations where the cause of injury or disease is not yet identified. Furthermore‚ they are trained to deal with a variety of different accidents‚ and work in emergency wards and other hospital locations to provide many different forms of health care. According to Katherine A. Hinderer in the article “Burnout‚ Compassion Fatigue‚ Compassion Satisfaction‚ and Secondary Traumatic Stress in Trauma Nurses‚”
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small-caliber catheters that are percutaneously placed at bedside‚ in comparison with the tradition large-caliber (32-40F) chest tubes (CTs) that are placed by an open cut-down technique 1-3. The PC’s roles and its effectiveness in the management of trauma patients with pneumothorax 3 and hemothorax (HTX)/hemopneumothorax (HPTX) 4 have previously been published. It is controversial and many clinicians still question whether or not blood in the chest cavity can be effectively drained by such a small
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I am not in good physical condition. Between being lazy‚ going to school full-time‚ and coming back from a sports injury it is for sure a recipe for a bad physical condition. I knew I needed to start improving my physical condition after I made a sprint down the sideline‚ chasing after the soccer ball in my game last Saturday. I realized that this time‚ it was not my asthma to fault‚ in any case it was my physical condition. But I’ve never been the type to set aside time to actually work on my fitness
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Schools have been duelling over this topic should student athletes have to attend physical education‚ to that the response is very simple the answer is no. Athlete kids also have to get some school help after school.Don’t kids get enough physical education in practices or games? Well to some schools the answer is no‚ but facts show that kids have a way more advanced education when they don’t have to go to practice and physical education every day. In fact‚ if athletes have their practice during school
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tracheal deviation to the left difficulty to ventilate. JVD (jugular venous distention) and BP is 85/55. Needle decompress the right chest. He begins to improve once again his o2 sat and BP begins to improve and we arrive to the trauma centre and report given to the trauma team. Presumed injuries are head injury‚ spinal cord injury‚ broken ribs‚ and tention pneumo thorax.
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