The chart below shows several common types of respiratory patterns and their possible causes. It's important to assess the patient for t...
Assessment Techniques
To perform physical assessment, a nurse uses four basic techniques: inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation. Performing these te...
Physical Assessment
PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT Nurses perform a complete physical assessment when the patient is admitted to the facility and partial reassessments a...
Skin Medications
Topical drugs are applied directly to the skin surface. They include lotions, pastes, ointments, creams, powders, shampoos, patches, and aer...
Eye Medications
Eye medications—drops, ointments, and disks—serve diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. During an eye examination, eyedrops can be used t...
How to Insert and Remove an Eye Medication Disk
Small and flexible, an oval eye medication disk consists of three layers: two soft outer layers and a middle layer that contains the medicat...
Handheld Oropharyngeal Inhalers
Handheld inhalers include the metered dose inhaler (or nebulizer), the turbo-inhaler, and the nasal inhaler. These devices deliver topical m...
Eardrops
Eardrops may be instilled to treat infection and inflammation, soften cerumen for later removal, produce local anesthesia, or facilitate rem...
Secondary I.V. Lines
A secondary I.V. line is a complete I.V. set—container, tubing, and microdrip or macrodrip system—connected to the lower Y-port (seconda...
How to Reduce and Treat Acne
As a parent, one of your concerns is to keep your child as healthy as possible. Now that your child is entering puberty, you now have to dea...
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