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What is a shift assessment? - Answer *During hospitalizations, nurses perform assessments at least once a shift, often every four hours. - used to determine immediate needs and complications What does a shift assessment involve? - Answer Medical record Shift report Data from examination of the patient What does every hospitalization patient need assessed? - Answer Skin -General inspection Cardiac -Inspection and ausculation of heart -Palpation of peripheral pulses -Assessment for pretibia edema Respirations -Inspect and auscultate Abdomen -Inspection, ausculatoon and palpation What do we inspect with the IV site? - Answer Redness Warmth Edema What do we inspect with the incision? - Answer Redness Drainage Approximation Edema How do we adapt our assessment skills to the skin? - Answer Skin inspection and palpation Perform risk assessment for pressure ulcers using a validated tool Initiate plans to prevent skin breakdown Document findings

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Hospitalized Patients Ch 24 Final
Exam Questions Fully Solved.
What is a shift assessment? - Answer *During hospitalizations, nurses perform assessments at
least once a shift, often every four hours.

- used to determine immediate needs and complications



What does a shift assessment involve? - Answer Medical record

Shift report

Data from examination of the patient



What does every hospitalization patient need assessed? - Answer Skin

-General inspection

Cardiac

-Inspection and ausculation of heart

-Palpation of peripheral pulses

-Assessment for pretibia edema

Respirations

-Inspect and auscultate

Abdomen

-Inspection, ausculatoon and palpation



What do we inspect with the IV site? - Answer Redness

Warmth

Edema



What do we inspect with the incision? - Answer Redness

Drainage

Approximation

Edema

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