NURS 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Lubricant, Thermometer, Stethoscope
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Setting: define and describe the techniques of the four physical examination skills: Inspection: close, careful, scrutiny, first of the individual patient as a whole and then of each body system. Percussion: tapping the person"s skin with short, sharp strokes to assess underlying structures. Auscultation: listening to sounds produced by parts of the body such as the heart and blood vessels, the lungs, and the abdomen, define the characteristics of the following percussion notes: Instant stop of sound, absolute dullness: distinguish between direct percussion and indirect percussion. In direct percussion, the striking hand contacts the body wall directly. Indirect percussion is used more often and involves both hands: relate the parts of the hands to palpation techniques used in assessment. Fingertips: fine tactile discrimination, the ability to differentiate information received through the sense of touch, skin texture, swelling, pulsation, determining presence of lumps.
