NUR 101 Vital Signs
- Normal temperature
Answer
97.0 F -99.5 F
- Normal Pulse range
Answer
60 - 100
- Normal Respiration range
Answer
12 - 20
- Normal Oxygen saturation
Answer above 93%
- What is the pain scale?
Answer 0-10 scale
- What would you report/Communicate to instructor or nurse
Answer abnormal vital signs
- When do you perform hand hygiene?
Answer before and after each direct patient contact 1 / 2
- Who makes the decision when vital signs need to be taken?
Answer hospital, doctors orders and nursing judgement
- What affects body temperature?
Answer balance between heat produced and heat lost, core temperature and surface temperature
- What are the temperature regulation used by neural and vascular controls?
Answer hypothalmus, vasodilation and vasoconstriction
- What is the primary source of heat in the body is
Answer metabolism
- Piloerection means
Answer goose bumps
- What are the different forms of heat loss?
Answer radiation, conduction, convection, evaporation, and vasodilation
- Diffusion or disseminatiom of heat by electromagnetic waves
Answer radiation
- transfer of heat from one object to another with direct contact
- / 2
Answer conduction