[VickyRN]

Health Assessment: Interview and History Taking Strategies

Assessment Using Functional Health Patterns - Includes sample concept map and careplan, along with sample health history ("Client Assessment According to Functional Health Pattern")

Sample Head-to-Toe Assessment

Using the Body Systems Model

Assessment According to Human Needs Approach

Assessment According to Human Response Patterns

The Complete Health History and Physical Assessment

Collecting Subjective Data

Pain Assessment

Heart and Neck Vessel Assessment

Assessment of Family Functional Health Patterns

Integumentary Disorders

Cardiovascular Disorders

[Daytonite]

It took me some time to put together some links for you. Hope you find these helpful.

http://www.getbodysmart.com/ - This is Get Body Smart and online Examination of Human Anatomy and Physiology. Book mark this for your studies. Click on the Respiratory System. Then keep clicking on the individual items on the list that comes up for an explanation of the anatomy of the various structures of the lung. My notes indicate that there are quizzes in this group of tutorials, but I didn't happen to access them this evening when I was verifying that the link was still good.

http://classes.kumc.edu/son/nurs320/module3.htm - this is a page of links from the nursing school of the University of Kansas. There are lots of links on respiratory subjects at the bottom of the page.

http://www.medgraph.com/breathbybreath.html#lungswork - Breath-by-Breath: The Lungs. How the lungs work and some lung diseases are described along with some web links for more information

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorials/bronchoscopy/htm/index.htm - how a bronchoscopy is done

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorials/copd/htm/index.htm - Interactive tutorial on COPD

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorials/asthma/htm/index.htm - Interactive tutorial on Asthma

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorials/cysticfibrosis/htm/index.htm - Interactive tutorial on Cystic Fibrosis

http://medicine.ucsd.edu/clinicalmed/lung.htm - assessing the respiratory system – includes pictures – if some of the pictures don't materialize, right click on the tiny "x" in the top left box where the picture is supposed to be and click on "Show Picture" to get the photograph to be displayed. If you want to see more on physical examination of the lungs and chest there are plenty of links here on three pages of postings
http://allnurses.com/forums/f205/health-assessment-resources-techniques-forms-145091.html

to get an outline rundown on the etiology, diagnosis and treatment of various respiratory diseases from the physician's point of view use the search function at this website:
http://www.fpnotebook.com/index.htm

[VickyRN]

Another great resource:

How to Perform a Head-to-Toe Assessment

[VickyRN]

Foundations of Physical Examination and History Taking

Beginning the Physical Examination
Assessment of the Cardiovascular System
Assessment of the Older Adult

[Daytonite]

This site includes, among other things, an interactive blood pressure cuff that you can play around with for practice:

http://medicine.osu.edu/exam/ - from Ohio State University College of Medicine, an Interactive Guide to Physical Examination for 8 body systems that includes sounds. To access the blood pressure cuff, scroll down to "Objective IV" and click the link that says "Take a blood pressure". When the player comes up, you can re-cycle the player over and over to hear and input blood pressure readings that it quizzes you on.

[shining_star28463]

Our next assessment is in vital signs. The first couple of assessments were breezy for me basically but this one I am afraid that I am going to have problems with. A lot of my classmates (including my lab partners) are CNAs and already know how to check vitals and they keep saying "oh, this assessment is going to be the easiest one," so I feel like I'm an idiot because I can't seem to hear the heartbeat when I try to check the blood pressure. I don't know if I'm supposed to count the first thump when I check pulse or the thump-thump as two thumps instead of one. I just feel overwhelmed because everyone else seems to know what they are doing. My clinical instructor is really helpful and says that she will be available anytime I need her for help but my concern is also that even if I am able to hear my instructor's beat when I am checking her pulse, I won't be able to hear my partner's. I am really worried and I don't want an U for this assessment. Does anyone have any advice on how to make this vitals assessment a little easier?

[Daytonite]

Here are some links to information and some videos that include taking vital signs that I have collected from prior posts on the forums:

http://medicine.osu.edu/exam/ - this is the link that was given to you above. It is from Ohio State University College of Medicine, an Interactive Guide to Physical Examination for 8 body systems and includes sounds. Has an interactive blood pressure cuff (the link is toward the bottom of the page, "Take a blood Pressure") where you click on a blood pressure bulb to start the inflation of the cuff. You will then hear and watch the manometer and tell the program what the final blood pressure is. It re-cycles to give you lots of practice!

http://medinfo.ufl.edu/other/opeta/vital/VS_main.html - videos on how to take vital signs

http://cal.fmc.flinders.edu.au/gemp/ClinicalSkills/clinskil/default.htm - basic clinical skills. Includes vital signs, BLS, cardiovascular skills, respiratory skills, injection techniques, examinations of rectum, pelvis, breast and eye, IV cannulation, local anesthesia and suturing. From Flinders School of Medicine, Bedford Park, South Australia.

[Megsd]

My clinical instructor gave us this website to help recognize various heart/lung sounds. It's pretty neat!

http://www.med.ucla.edu/wilkes/inex.htm

Enjoy.

[Daytonite]

Hi, nikki063083!

There are sample writes up of history and physical exams at this site. Remember, this is a site for medical students, but it will give you an idea of how to keep the information objective:

http://medicine.ucsd.edu/clinicalmed/introduction.htm - a very nice site to help with doing physical assessments of patients from the University of California, San Diego. Explains how to examine the various parts of the body and has lots of photographs showing abnormal conditions and how to assess for them. There are two samples of write-ups of the history and physicals on two patients at this site here at this page:
http://medicine.ucsd.edu/clinicalmed/write.htm

Welcome to allnurses!

[Daytonite]

Videos of physical assessments:

• http://medinfo.ufl.edu/other/opeta/ - videos of physical examination procedures from the University of Florida as well as how to take vital signs. This is the index page.
• http://library.med.utah.edu/neurologicexam/html/home_exam.html - awesome tutorial from the University of Utah school of medicine on how to do a neurological examination. Includes videos (need QuickTime). Mental status, cranial nerve, coordination, sensory, motor and gait exams. Each section discusses the anatomy, the normal exam and includes abnormal examples with pictures.
• http://www.wiziq.com/educational-tut...ar-Examination - Peripheral Vascular System Exam