How to assess a clients respiratory rate

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Assignment:

1. Know the normal range for a healthy adult's heart rate.

2. Know the valves that produce "lubb" and "dub" sounds.

3. Know the location of where to listen to the apical pulse and how long it takes to auscultate the apical pulse.

4. Know the routes for taking a temperature and understand why certain routes would be used or not used in specific situations. 5. Understand considerations for the blood pressure cuff to have accurate blood pressure readings.

6. Know the normal ranges of respirations, heart rate, blood pressure, and oxygen saturation and understand when to report concerns to the healthcare provider.

7. Understand the purpose of a wellness visit.

8. Know what the first Korotkoff sound represents.

9. Understand how to properly assess a client's pulse and what a pulse represents.

10. Know how to assess a client's respiratory rate.

11. Know how to measure a client's temperature orally.

12. Know the differences between assessing an adult versus a child's temperature using a tympanic membrane sensor.

13. Understand the correlation between temperature and pulse.

14. Understand a pulse deficit and how to assess a possible pulse deficit in a client.

Reference no: EM133586314

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