Temperature Help Please!!! :o)

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  1. What time of day is your normal temperature at its highest.

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      12:00am - 2:00am
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      4:00am - 6:00am
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      11:00am- 2:00pm
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      5:00pm - 8:00pm

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We just had a test on vital signs and one question I was concerned about, was about temperature.

I was just a little confused since our book tells us that your temperature is at its highest point between 8:00pm and 12:00am. Any insight into this would be great.

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Specializes in ICU, CM, Geriatrics, Management.
... our book tells us that your temperature is at its highest point between 8:00pm and 12:00am...

Huh???

Our's claims it's between 1600 and 1800.

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I have absolutely no idea.

How much higher does it get? Is is that significant?

I am genuinely curious - I don't recall learning this when I trained,(but it was a while ago).

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Specializes in Medical.

I know there's some temperature variance according to time of day, but it's such a trifling amount I really don't think it has an impact on patient care. It's certainly not more than about 0.2 of a degree (Celsius - for you Farenheit people, 'normal' is 37.0, with an unremarkable range of 35.8 - 37.4 or so; we take cultures at 38.0 - used to be 38.5; they're very unwell at 40.0, and gone at 42.0).

I would think all bets are off in a hyper- or hypothermic patient. Unless you're working with fertility, it sounds to me like yet another thing that you're supposed to know because it's in the (conflicting with one another) text books.

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