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    Vital signs should be assessed upon admission to a healthcare facility, with any change in a patient's condition, loss of consciousness, before or after procedures, or before medications affecting cardiovascular or respiratory function. Vital signs include temperature, pulse, respiration, blood pressure, and oxygen saturation. Body temperature is controlled by the hypothalamus and can be affected by circadian rhythms, age, gender, environment, and mechanisms of heat transfer. Fever is assessed by its onset, potential causes, and signs like dry skin, loss of appetite, and headache. Pulse is felt or heard and assessed by rate, which is normally 60-100 beats per minute.

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    Vital signs should be assessed upon admission to a healthcare facility, with any change in a patient's condition, loss of consciousness, before or after procedures, or before medications affecting cardiovascular or respiratory function. Vital signs include temperature, pulse, respiration, blood pressure, and oxygen saturation. Body temperature is controlled by the hypothalamus and can be affected by circadian rhythms, age, gender, environment, and mechanisms of heat transfer. Fever is assessed by its onset, potential causes, and signs like dry skin, loss of appetite, and headache. Pulse is felt or heard and assessed by rate, which is normally 60-100 beats per minute.

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    Module 6-Vital Signs

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    Vital signs should be assessed upon admission to a healthcare facility, with any change in a patient's condition, loss of consciousness, before or after procedures, or before medications affecting cardiovascular or respiratory function. Vital signs include temperature, pulse, respiration, blood pressure, and oxygen saturation. Body temperature is controlled by the hypothalamus and can be affected by circadian rhythms, age, gender, environment, and mechanisms of heat transfer. Fever is assessed by its onset, potential causes, and signs like dry skin, loss of appetite, and headache. Pulse is felt or heard and assessed by rate, which is normally 60-100 beats per minute.

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    Module 6_NUR 101 Vital Signs

    Vital Signs
    When to Assess Vital Signs
    Upon admission to any health care facility
    Based on agency policy
    Any time there is a change the patients condition
    Anytime there is a loss of consciousness
    Before or after any surgical or invasive diagnostic procedure
    Before or after activity that may increase risk
    Before administering medications that affect cardiovascular and respiratory function
    Vital Signs include
    Temperature (T)
    Pulse (P)
    Respiration (R)
    Blood Pressure (B/P)
    Oxygenation level (O2 Sat)
    Body Temperature
    The thermoregulatory center in the hypothalamus controls body temperature
    Circadian Rhythms
    Age & Gender
    Environmental (ambient) Temperature
    -hypothermia
    -hyperthermia
    Mechanisms of Heat Transfer
    Radiation
    Convection
    Evaporation
    Conduction
    A person with normal body temperature is referred to as being afebrile
    Fever (pyrexia)
    Onset sudden or gradual
    Fever of Unknown Origin ( FUO)
    Febrile
    Signs & Symptoms of Fever (febrile)
    Dry skin
    Loss of appetite
    Flushed face

    Thirst
    General malaise
    Headache
    Types of Fever
    Intermittent
    Remittent
    Constant
    Relapsing
    Crisis
    Lysis
    How do we treat FEVER?
    Assessing Temperature
    Equipment
    Sites
    Pulse
    A throbbing sensation that can be palpated or auscultated.
    Regulated by the autonomic nervous system through the cardiac sinoatrial (SA) node
    (pacemaker).
    Pulse Rate
    The number of pulsations felt over a peripheral artery or heard over the apex of the heart in 1
    minute.
    Normal pulse rate = 60-100 beats per minute

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