Physical assessment respiratory system nursing - Respiratory Assessment 🫁🩺#shorts #nurse #breathing
Channel: Jus Like That
Date: 2022-11-12

Physical assessment respiratory system nursing

🫁A quick respiratory assessment review for all my nursing students...this one's for ya'll 😄

1️⃣ INSPECT🔍
🔹️Thoracic cage
🔹️Respiration rate
🔹️Skin color and condition 
🔹️Client positioining and facial expression 

2️⃣ PALPATE✋🏽
🔹️Symmetrical expansion 
🔹️Tactile fremitus e.g. "say 99"
🔹️Lumps or masses
🔹️Chest wall tenderness 

3️⃣ PERCUSS🥁
🔹️Over lung fields 
🔹️Side to side comparison
🔹️Listen for resonance

4️⃣ AUSCULTATE🩺
🔹️Ask the client to breathe deeper
🔹️Use the diaphragm of the stethoscope and stand behind the client 
🔹️Expect to hear 3 types of normal breath sounds (bronchial, bronchovesicular, vesicular)
🔹️Note the presence of adventitious sounds such as crackles (rales), wheezes (rhochi); as well as a decrease, increase, or absence of breath sounds 

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