Respiratory Assessment: Adult and Child.

Respiratory Assessment: Adult and Child is organized by RnCeus Interactive and will be held from Apr 13, 2020 - Nov 02, 2021.

The target audience for this medical event is nurses and other health care professionals working in all health care settings with patients across the age continuum. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 5.0 contact hours

Course Objectives:
• Recognize the principal structures of the respiratory system.
• Describe the function of the respiratory system.
• State 6 significant respiratory symptoms.
• Identify 4 techniques used in a respiratory assessment.
• Describe normal assessment findings for chest inspection.
• Recognize disturbances in breathing rate and rhythm.
• Describe normal assessment findings for chest palpation.
• Describe normal assessment findings for chest percussion.
• Differentiate among the following sounds heard and felt on percussion: resonant sounds; flat sounds; dull sounds; hyperresonant sounds; and tympanic sounds.
• Describe normal assessment findings for chest auscultation.
• Describe the characteristics and implications of the following abnormal breath sounds: crackles or rales; wheezes, rhonchi, stridor.
• Describe the implications of the following transmitted voice sounds: whispered pectoriloquy, bronchophony, egophony.
• Describe expected assessment findings for the following respiratory diseases: atelectasis, pneumonia, bronchitis, emphysema, pleural effusion, pneumothorax.
• Recognize techniques that are helpful in doing a respiratory assessment on a child.

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.