TAILIEUCHUNG - Lecture Medical assisting: Administrative and clinical procedures (5e) - Chapter 37: Vital signs and measurements

After completing chapter 37, you will be able to: Identify the skills necessary to conduct a patient interview; recognize the signs of anxiety; depression; and physical, mental, or substance abuse; use the six Cs for writing an accurate patient history; carry out a patient history using critical thinking skills;. | 37 Vital Signs and Measurements Learning Outcomes (cont.) Describe the five vital signs. Identify various methods of taking a patient’s temperature. Describe the process of obtaining pulse and respirations. Learning Outcomes (cont.) Carry out blood pressure measurements. Summarize orthostatic or postural vital signs. Illustrate various body measurements. Introduction Vital signs Temperature Pulse Respirations Blood pressure Pain assessment Body measurements Height Weight Head circumference Vital signs and body measurements are used to evaluate health problems. Accuracy is essential. Learning Outcome: Describe the five vital signs. Vital signs are one of the most important assessments you can make. Temperature, pulse, respirations, blood pressure, and pain assessment give information about how a patient will adjust to changes within the body and in the environment. Measurements like height, weight, and head circumference can indicate

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• Medical assisting
• Administrative practices
• Clinical practices
• Medical assisting practice
• Patient interview
• Patient rights
• Clinical procedures
• Administrative medical assisting
• Clinical medical assisting
• Medical assisting profession
• Medical assistant credentials
• Responsibilities of the medical assistant
• Medical assisting organizations
• Medical assisting externships
• Externship scenarios
• Assisting in geriatrics
• Geriatric patients
• Medical office
• Accounting for the medical office
• Assisting in pediatrics
• Pediatric patient care
• Medical coding
• Diagnosis codes
• Minor surgery
• Medical asepsis
• Medical specialties
• Nursing careers
• Medical law
• Physician rights
• Externship process
• Expectations of externship candidates
• Insurance terminology
• Managed care plans
• Standard payment procedures
• Accepting payment
• Body organization
• Anatomical terminology
• Integumentary system
• Structure of skin
• Skeletal system
• Bone structure
• Skeletal muscles
• Muscular system
• Cardiovascular system
• Structures of the heart
• respiratory system
• Paranasal sinuses
• Nervous system
• Neuron structure
• Urinary system
• Renal sinus
• Reproductive system
• Male reproductive system
• Female reproductive system