As a healthcare professional, are you checking all the vital signs to evaluate total patient condition?
As a healthcare professional, are you checking all the vital signs to evaluate total patient condition?
Author(s): Tom GarzSubject(s): Health and medicine and law, Scientific Life
Published by: MedCrave Group Kft.
Keywords: healthcare professional; vital signs; patient;
Summary/Abstract: For many years, four vital signs were used to determine the condition of a patient. Today, modern health care professionals are checking two more vital signs, pain and emotional distress. Six vital signs are now recognized by many healthcare professionals to determine a patient's total condition: 1. Body Temperature, 2. Heart Pulse Rate, 3. Blood Pressure, 4. Respiratory Rate, 5. Pain, 6. Emotional Distress.
Journal: Journal of Psychology & Clinical Psychiatry
- Issue Year: 9/2018
- Issue No: 5
- Page Range: 464-464
- Page Count: 1
- Language: English
