Exam 2 Outline
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Subjective and Objective data
o Nutrition
o Metabolic syndrome
Age-related changes
o Nutrition
o Dentition
o Impact of dysphagia on nutrition
Dietary Practice
o Religious
o Cultural
Malnutrition
o Signs and symptoms
o Marasmus
o Kwashiokor
o Ricketts
Nutritional assessment
o Types of assessments
o Anthropometric measurements
o Food diary
o 24-hour recall
o Food frequency
o Medication Impacts
Lymph nodes
o Location
o Assessment findings
Neck assessment
o Trachea position
o ROM and position
o Thyroid assessment, findings
Cranial Nerves
o How to assess motor and sensory function
o What findings mean
o I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII
Eye Exam
o What is being tested: direct/indirect, accommodation, consensual movement,
cardinal fields of gaze
o Pupils and age-related changes
o Snellen and Rosenbaum charts
Ear Exam
o Hearing exams and findings
o High-tone and low-tone hearing assessment
o Tinnitus
o Whispered voice
o Inspection of external ear and abnormal findings
o Sensorineural versus conductive hearing loss
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Face, Mouth and Tonsils
o Assessment and grading
o Stenson and Wharton ducts
o Sinuses
o Nasal septum assessment