1. What is the difference between present, and past, medical history?
2. What does "AVPU" stand for? If you administer a painful or irritating stimilus to a pt to establish LoC, and they try to move away or groan, do you assess your pt as A, V, P, or U?
3. Be able to name and locate at least 6 pulse points.
4. What is the Glascow Coma Scale, and what is included in it?
5. Describe: clear and equal bilaterally, rales, rhonchi, stridor, and wheezing.
6. Your 72 year old pt tells you she doesn't feel comfortable lying down and when she does go to bed she often wakes up because she can't breathe. She often sleeps sitting up in a chair. What kind of lung sounds might you hear when you assess her lungs?
7. How do you check lung sounds?
8. You would assess your pt's condition as bradycardia when his __________ is higher/lower than _________.. You would assess your pt as tachycardic when her ________ is higher/lower than________..
9. Differentiate between signs and symptoms.
10. What is the purpose of the Initial Assessment?
11. What are the steps in the Initial Assessment?
12. If the pt is sitting up and talking to you - what part of the Initial Assessment can you assume to be done?
13. List the 3 major vital signs and give the normal range for each.
14. What are the other 3 vital signs?
15. Your pt has a weak and rapid carotid pulse with no radial pulse. He has major blunt abdominal trauma, but you see no sign of blood on the pavement. Do you suspect the pt. is bleeding? How do you know his BP without taking it? What is his BP?
16. The first information you get in patient history is the Chief Complaint. What is this?
17. Skin color and temperature give you clues to various ways to intervene. How would you assess the pt who is:
cool and clammy?
blue tint around mouth?
pale, diaphoretic, with dyspnea?
warm and dry?
cherry red?
18. What are the two "S"s to remember before even starting your patient assessment?
19. What two things are you looking for when you check pupil reaction?
20. What 5 things are you concerned with when you first survey the scene?