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Head to Toe Patient Assessment Cheat Sheet, Cheat Sheet of Nursing

A form for nurses to be filled by asking all the questions from patient

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Download Head to Toe Patient Assessment Cheat Sheet and more Cheat Sheet Nursing in PDF only on Docsity! Head to Toe Physical Assessment POLST/Code Status VS 7:30 Temperature Pulse Respirations BP / Pain /10 VS 11:30 Temperature Pulse Respirations BP / Pain /10 GENERAL SURVEY How does the client look? Age___________ Male/Female Body Build: Thin Cachectic Obese WNL Height___________ Weight____________ Well groomed Poorly Groomed Facial Expression: Anxious Happy Sad Angry NEUROLOGICAL (LOC) Level of Consciousness Alert Awake Lethargic Obtunded Stuper Comatose Confused Decerebrate Decorticate Oriented x 4: Person Place Time Event Response to touch/voice Eyes Unaided sight Glasses Contact lens Implants Prosthesis Snellen 20/ Blind Pupils Equal Round Reactive to light Accommodates Sluggish Brisk Nonreactive to light Consensual Pupil size before light ______mm Pupil size after light ______mm Ears Unaided hearing Hard of hearing Deaf Hearing aid Implant Cerumen Drainage Extremities Hand grips +1 +2 +3 +4 +5 equal unequal Foot pushes +1 +2 +3 +4 +5 equal unequal Cranial Nerves - intact I(smell) II(vision) III+IV+VI(eye movement) V(sensation of face/oral) VII (facial movement/taste) VIII (hear/balance) IX (taste/swallow) X (chew/gag/speech) XI (shrug/turn head) XII(tongue movement) Pain Character Onset Location Duration Severity Pattern Associated Factors COLDSPA CARDIOVASCULAR Skin / Mucous Membranes Pink Pale Cyanotic Jaundiced Ruddy Flushed Diaphoretic Radial and Pedal Pulses Radial: Palpable (L/R) Absent (L/R) Pedal: (DP PT) Palpable (L/R) Absent (L/R) Apical Radial Pulses (2 people simultaneously) Apical and Radial Pulse Deficit Carotid Pulses (DO NOT TAKE AT SAME TIME) Right Left Thrill Bruit Capillary Refill Normal (<3 Sec) ______sec Jugular Neck Veins Not visible Visible Edema Absent Present: location +1 +2 +3 +4 Anasarca Pitting Non Pitting Calf Tenderness Denies Positive Homan’s sign R L calf size R____ L_____ (team leader or charge nurse notified) Heart Rhythm/ Sounds – S1S2 Regular Irregular Murmur Extra sounds Strong Faint Muffled Telemetry: rhythm ___________________ Pacemaker Defibrillator location IV Solution_______________ Rate ____ml/hr Pump Site location (be specific) ______________________________________ Site appearance: Clear Edema Erythema Tender Pallor Dialysis access: type __________ Thrill Bruit Location:___________ Appearance:____________ RESPIRATORY Respirations Regular Irregular Even Uneven Unlabored Labored Symmetrical Asymmetrical Lung Sounds Clear LUL RUL LLL RLL RML Anterior Posterior Wheezes location__________ Rales/crackles location__________ Rhonchi location ________ Nasal flaring Sternal retraction Intercostal retraction Do lung sounds improve with cough and deep breath? If no, report to team leader Cough None Nonproductive Dry Moist Productive Sputum:amount color frequency Oxygen Room air Pulse ox ______ O2 at_____L/min Nasal Cannula Mask Tent CPAP BIPAP Respiratory Treatments Incentive Spirometer (IS): ml______ frequency _______hold for ___ seconds # of times______ HHN medication Bipap Ventilator? TV rate 02% other ALLERGIES BLOOD GLUCOSE
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