13 Medical Assessment

WHAT BODY SYSTEM ARE YOU ASSESSING AND WHAT THINGS ARE YOU LOOKING FOR? And what steps do you have to verbalize and do to show that is the body system? Pedal edema? Lung sounds? Palpating? anything else? What about Cincinnati Stroke Scale?

RESPIRATORY OR PULMONARY

CARDIAC OR CARDIOVASCULAR

NEUROLOGICAL

ENDOCRINE

ALLERGIC REACTION

GI/GU

REPRODUCTIVE

INTEGUMENTARY

MUSCULOSKELETAL

PSYCHOLOGICAL/SOCIAL