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Vital Signs, Temperature, Pulse, Respirations, Blood
Pressure: Nursing Fundamentals UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers


What are the 5 vital signs? temperature, pulse, respirations, blood pressure, pain


Normal oral temperature for an adult? 98.6


Normal pulse rate for an adult 60-100


Normal respiration's for an adult? 12-20 breaths per minute


Normal blood pressure for an adult? 120/80


Core body temperatures tympanic and rectal


surface body temperature oral
axillary
skin surface sites


7 Factors affecting body temperature Circadian Rhythms
Age and gender
Physical activity
State of health
Environmental Temperature
Hypothermia
hyperthermia

, 5 Sites and methods of assessing body temperature oral
Tympanic
Temporal artery
Anxillary
rectal


5 Factors affecting the pulse Age and gender
Physical activity
Fever and stress
Medications
disease


Increased Pulse Rate tachycardia


Decreased Pulse Rate bradycardia


Pulse Amplitude and Quality Grade


Pulse Rhythm dysrhythmia


Equipment used to assess the pulse stethoscope
doppler ultrasound


sites and methods of assessing the pulse peripheral arterial pulses
apical pulse
apical - radial pulse


8 sites for detecting pulse by light palpations temporal
carotid
brachial
radial
femoral
popliteal
posterior libial
dorsalis pedis


3 types of respirations ventilation
diffusion
perfusion


inhalation and exhalation are ____ ventilations

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