Assessment, Body Mechanics, Medical Asepsis
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| What are the four techniques of physical exam? | Inspection, palpation, percussion, & auscultation.
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| What is inspection? | Lookinging and observing. It starts when you first meet the patient. Begin each phase of the exam with inspecting.
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| What is palpation? | Palpation applies your sense of touch to assess factors such as texture, temperture, moiture,size, tenderness & swelling.
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| What is percussion? | Tapping the person's skin with short, sharp strokes to assess underlying tissue.
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| What is auscultation? | Listening to sounds produced by the body, using a stethoscope.
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| What is medical asepsis? | A clean technique,which involves procedures and practices that reduce the number and transfer of pathogens. Example: hand hygiene
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| What is surgical asepsis? | Sterile technique, includes practice used to render and keep objects and areas free from microorganisms. Example: inserting an indwelling urinary catheter.
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| What is a nosocomial infection? | Health care associated infections (HAI) or infections that develop while a patient is in a health care facility.
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| Name two types of bacterial pathogens on the hands? | Transient and resident
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| What is the characteristic of transient pathogens? | Loosely attached to skin and under nails.
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| What is the characteristic of resident pathogens? | Firmly attached to the skin and embedded in creases in the skin.
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| What is standard precautions? | Precaustion for everyone regardless of their diagnosis or infection.
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| What is gravity? | The force which pulls all objects toward the center of the earth.
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| What is the center of gravity? | The point at which an object's mass is centered and the point at which the major weight of the body is concentrated.
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