#30: How to Perform an Awesome Head-to-Toe Assessment

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🗓️ 2 November 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Nursing is all about SEEING something and then DOING something. We see problems, we fix them. We see potential problems and we try to avoid them. That's it in a nutshell, folks! And that's where your head to toe assessment comes into play. As one of the most important skills you will learn EVER, it's also one of the fist really big things you'll tackle in your fundamentals course. It can be overwhelming at first, so that's why we're going to break it down Straight A Nursing style. ___________________ Full Transcript - Read the article and view references FREE CLASS - If all you've heard are nursing school horror stories, then you need this class! Join me in this on-demand session where I dispel all those nursing school myths and show you that YES...you can thrive in nursing school without it taking over your life! Crucial Concepts Bootcamp - Start nursing school ahead of the game, or reset after a difficult first semester with my nursing school prep course, Crucial Concepts Bootcamp. Learn key foundation concepts, organization and time management, dosage calculations, and so much more. Mastering Head-To-Toe Assessment - Tune in to episode 82 for tips on how to prepare for your skills check off on your head-to-toe assessment. Clinical Success Pack - One of the best ways to fast-track your clinical learning is having the right tools. This pack includes report sheets, sheets to help you plan your day, a clinical debrief form, and a patient safety cheat sheet. 💕Did you love this episode? Please take a moment to follow or subscribe to the show so you never miss an episode! ___________________ The information, including but not limited to, audio, video, text, and graphics contained on this podcast are for educational purposes only. No content on this podcast is intended to guide nursing practice and does not supersede any individual healthcare provider's scope of practice or any nursing school curriculum. Additionally, no content on this podcast is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Straight a Nursing is a proud member of the Airwave Media Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.1	Streaming Now. Hey everybody welcome back to the Straight Day Nursing
0:44.8	podcast and today as promised we are going over how to do a head to toe
0:52.2	assessment. So when you're taking your skills labs and you're
0:58.4	practicing on patients in the hospital, your head totoe assessment is going to take like 10 or 15 minutes.
1:08.3	I promise you will get much faster at doing these. And one of the reasons is because in a lot of
1:17.2	cases you'll be doing more of a focused assessment and then really drilling down into the body system that is causing your
1:26.3	patient the most trouble like for instance a really focused cardiovascular
1:30.8	assessment or a really focused neuro assessment which could take a while.
1:35.8	But today we're just going to talk about a basic head-to-toe assessment for your patient
1:40.9	who's come in for a common problem. Let's say they've got a pneumonia or something like that.
1:50.0	So you're going to do a basic head-to- toe assessment on this person with a little more attention on the lungs.
1:56.8	So the first thing that you're going to do in your head to toe with your patient is level of consciousness. So you can
2:06.5	actually get a ton of assessment data just from talking with your patient and
2:12.1	observing them. So it's not like you're doing this really
2:17.3	formal, now I'm going to ask you orientation questions kind of thing. I go in I start talking with my
2:24.9	patient all sneak in questions that assess their level of consciousness so why
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