NUR 304 Exam 1
- The 5 Vital Signs
Answer 1) Temperature 2) Pulse 3) Respiratory rate 4) Blood pressure 5) Oxygen saturation
- When should a nurse look at VS?
- initial visit
Answer
-whenever the patient condition changes
- Is pain subjective or objective?
Answer Subjective
- Nursing Intervention
Answer nurses are responsible for the patient
- Average temperature range
Answer
98.8-100.4
- Fever
Answer Oral 1 / 2
>100 F
Rectal
>100.4 F
- Hypothermia
Answer <95F
- Hyperthermia
Answer >104 F
- What produces heat?
Answer -neural and vascular control
- basal metabolic rate
- nonshivering thermogenesis
- What looses heat?
Answer -Radiation
-Convenction -evaporation -conduction
- What is radiation?
- / 2
Answer loss of heat through skin