Collecting OBJ data

• COTTON BALL AND PAPER CLIP

  • Test the sense of touch
• COTTON TIPPED-APPLICATORS

  • Obtain specimens
• DENTAL MIRROR

  • Visualize the mouth and throat structures
• 4X4 GAUZE

  • Collect drainages
• GLOVES

  • Protect the nurse and patient from contamination
• GOGGLES

  • Protect the nurses eyes from contamination by body

  fluids
• GONIOMETER

  • Measure degree of flexion and extension of joints
• LUBRICANT

  • Provide lubrication for vaginal or rectal examination
• NASAL SPECULUM

  • Dilate nares for inspection of the nose
• OPTHALMOSCOPE

  • Inspect the anterior structures of the eye
• OTHOSCOPE

  • Inspect the tympanic membrane and external ear canal
• PENLIGHT

  • Provide a direct light source and test pupillary reaction
• REFLEX HAMMER

  • Test deep tendon reflexes
• RULER, MARKED IN CM

  • Measure organs, masses, growths and lesions
• SKIN-MARKING PEN

  • Outline masses or enlarged organs
• SPECIMEN CONTAINERS

  • Collect specimens of body fluids, drainage, or tissue
• SPHYGMOMANOMETER

  • Measure systolic and diastolic blood pressure
• STETHOSCOPE

  • Auscultate body sounds
• STADIOMETER

  • Measure the height of the patient
• TAPE MEASURE

  • Measure the circumference of the head, abdomen, and extremities
• TONGUE BLADE

  • Depress the tongue during assessment of the mount and throat
• TUNING FORK

  • Test auditory function and vibratory sensation
• VISION CHART

  • Test near and far vision
• Snellen chart - other term for vision chart
• WEIGHING SCALE

  • Measure the weight of the patient
• WATCH WITH SECOND HAND

  • Time heart rate, fetal pulse, or bowel sound when counting
• Fingerpads

  • Fine discriminations: Pulses, texture, size, consistency, shape, crepitus
• Ulnar surface - vibration, thrills, fremitus
• Dorsal - temperature
• LIGHT PALPATION

  • Use this technique to feel for pulses, tenderness,

  surface skin texture, temperature, and moisture
• MODERATE PALPATION

  • The nurse can determine the depth, size, shape,

  consistency, and mobility of organs as well as any

  pain, or pulsations that might be present
• DEEP PALPATION

  • This allows you to feel very deep organs or

  structures that are covered by thick muscle
• Percussion involves tapping body parts to produce

  sound waves
• DIRECT PERCUSSION

  • Is the technique of tapping the body with the fingertips of the dominant hand
• DIRECT PERCUSSION

  • used to examine the thorax of an infant
• Blunt percussion - Is used to detect tenderness over organs by placing one hand flat on the body

  surface and using the fist of the other hand to strike

  the back of the hand flat on the body surface
• Indirect Percussion

  • Produces a sound or tone that varies with the density of underlying structures
• AUSCULTATION

  • Is the skill of listening to the sounds produced by the body
• BELL SIDE

  • Detect low-pitched sounds
• DIAPHRAGM SIDE

  • Detect high-pitched sounds