Questions and Answers.
Comprehensive assessment - Answer upon admission to facility and includes the health
history and complete physical, provides baseline for comparison
ongoing partial - Answer conducted at regular intervals such as each hospital shift, done to
monitor effectiveness of interventions
focused - Answer assess a specific problem
emergency - Answer rapid focused assessment, done to determine potentially fatal situation
What is PQRST? - Answer provokes, quality, radiates, severity, timing
turgor - Answer fullness or elasticity of the skin
What are the ABC's of assessing for skin cancer - Answer asymmetry, border, color, diameter,
evolving
What are the 4 phases of would healing? - Answer hemostasis, inflammatory, proliferation,
maturation
What are 5 factors affecting wound healing? - Answer age, circulation and oxygenation,
nutritional status, wound condition, health status
What are the two stages of sleep? - Answer NREM and REM
What 2 stages are considered delta sleep? - Answer III and IV
In which stage of sleep is the person most easily aroused? - Answer I and II
What stage of sleep is the most difficult to arouse? - Answer REM sleep
What is the normal order of the sleep cycle? - Answer I, II, III,IV, III, II, REM, II