{"id":666,"date":"2021-09-29T10:09:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T14:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/assessmentnursing\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=666"},"modified":"2022-01-24T11:08:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T16:08:50","slug":"objective-assessment-3","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/assessmentnursing\/chapter\/objective-assessment-3\/","title":{"raw":"Objective Assessment","rendered":"Objective Assessment"},"content":{"raw":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Objective assessment of the GI system includes:<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul style=\"text-align: left\">\r\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Inspection and palpation related to the <strong>oral cavity<\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Inspection, auscultation, palpation, and percussion of the <strong>abdomen<\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Inspection and palpation of the <strong>perianal region<\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Be aware of the <strong>environmental temperature<\/strong> in the room and the temperature of your hands. Room temperatures are not easily modified, so try to limit exposing the client and keep them covered. Draping is particularly important when assessing the abdomen and perianal region. Before touching the client, warm your hands by rubbing them together and warm the stethoscope before placing it on the client\u2019s body.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n&nbsp;","rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Objective assessment of the GI system includes:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Inspection and palpation related to the <strong>oral cavity<\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Inspection, auscultation, palpation, and percussion of the <strong>abdomen<\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Inspection and palpation of the <strong>perianal region<\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Be aware of the <strong>environmental temperature<\/strong> in the room and the temperature of your hands. Room temperatures are not easily modified, so try to limit exposing the client and keep them covered. Draping is particularly important when assessing the abdomen and perianal region. Before touching the client, warm your hands by rubbing them together and warm the stethoscope before placing it on the client\u2019s body.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"menu_order":4,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-666","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":48,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/assessmentnursing\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/assessmentnursing\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/assessmentnursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/assessmentnursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/assessmentnursing\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1639,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/assessmentnursing\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/666\/revisions\/1639"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/assessmentnursing\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/48"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/assessmentnursing\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/666\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/assessmentnursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/assessmentnursing\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/assessmentnursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/assessmentnursing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}