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When taking vital signs on a patient which is the best method for temperature rectally orally or axillary?
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Which method of temperature measurement is the least accurate?
Axillary
List three contraindications for oral temperature measurement?
Axillary,rectal,tympanic,or temporal method
How is temperature taken through an oral placement?
The procedure for taking a patient's temperature by mouth with a mercury thermometer is similar to the axillary method except that the silver tip of the thermometer is placed beneath the tongue for four to five minutes before being read.
What is considered the least invasive and most accurate method of taking a patient's temperature?
An axillary reading which is a thermometer placed in the armpit. The one that you stick in the ear, 2 seconds later, the temperature is read. It can be done without the patients knowledge if done correctly.
Select one method used to measure body temperature?
ear, oral, axillary or rectal are locations it can be measured
How can you reverse the affects of dehydration with out IV fluids?
If the patient is unable to take fluids orally, if IV infusions are unavailable, hydrating solutions may be administered rectally. This is certainly not the best treatment, but if no other method is available, it may be life saving.
Which temperature site is considered most accurate?
Rectal thermometers are still considered by many medical professionals to be the gold standard for babies and children. However, oral and forehead readings are also typically very reliable in these age groups.
What is a method by which therapist and patient probe deeply into the patient's memory?
Sigmund Freud, a doctor from Vienna, devised a method called psychoanalysis to probe deeply into a patient's memory.
The slide removal method of patient evacuation is?
The easiest one-person method
Who is the client according to MEDS method?
It can be the patient, the patient's family, or the nurse. It is whoever the question is referring to.
What are the health teachings about basal body temperature method of contraception?
what are health teaching about basal body temperature method of contraception?
What is a method by which a therapist and a patient probe for repressed experiences?
Psychotherapy.
