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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