STATION X: RESPIRATORY EXAMINATION
STUDENT_____________________
Communication Prompted:
Explains process to patient
Maintains appropriate communication
Any concerns about consent process?
Observation
Why?
Prompted:
Performed Appropriate
Routine:
Name five points to
observe:
Performed Appropriate
General
Chest
Breathing
Palpation
Prompted:
Performed Effective
Assessment of observed abnormalities
Chest/Breathing
URC Expansion
LRC expansion
Range/symmetry
Percussion
Tactile Fremitus
Prompted:
Position of patients’ arms
Symmetrical locations (Ant & Post)
Auscultation
Performed Effective
Performed Effective Identifies:
Heart
Sup. Border of Liver
Diaphragm Dullness
Performed Effective
Prompted:
Performed Appropriate
Symmetrical locations
(Ant & Post)
Vocal Fremitus
Supplementary question:
2 examples of what to listen
for
Performed Appropriate