{"id":20,"date":"2015-04-20T20:42:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T20:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/vitalsigns\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2023-10-18T16:18:29","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T16:18:29","slug":"lesson-1-initial-assessment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/vitalsigns\/?page_id=20","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 1: Initial Assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='dropshadowboxes-container ' style='width:auto;'>\r\n                            <div class='dropshadowboxes-drop-shadow dropshadowboxes-rounded-corners dropshadowboxes-inside-and-outside-shadow dropshadowboxes-lifted-both dropshadowboxes-effect-default' style=' border: 1px solid #dddddd; height:; background-color:#ffffff;    '>\r\n                            <\/p>\n<h2><strong>Objectives<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>After completing this exercise you should be able to:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Identify the vital signs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Complete an initial assessment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Establish patient contact.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Assess the skin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Assess the level of consciousness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Take a SAMPLE history.<\/p>\n<p>\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n                        <\/div>\n<div class='dropshadowboxes-container ' style='width:auto;'>\r\n                            <div class='dropshadowboxes-drop-shadow dropshadowboxes-rounded-corners dropshadowboxes-inside-and-outside-shadow dropshadowboxes-lifted-both dropshadowboxes-effect-default' style=' border: 5px solid #d20000; height:; background-color:#ffffff;    '>\r\n                            <\/p>\n<h2>Overview and Context<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WyI34ussq6U?si=qhlMRF-tedwUu1XT\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n                        <\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/vitalsigns\/?page_id=45\">1.1 What are \u201cVital Signs\u201d?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/vitalsigns\/?page_id=47\">1.2 Initial Assessment and SAMPLE History<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/vitalsigns\/?page_id=51\">1.3 Establish Patient Contact<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/vitalsigns\/?page_id=55\">1.4 Assessing the Skin<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/vitalsigns\/?page_id=58\">1.5 Assessing Level of Consciousness<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/vitalsigns\/?page_id=62\">1.6 SAMPLE History<\/a><\/strong><a title=\"1.1 What are \u201cVital Signs\u201d?\" href=\"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/vitalsigns\/lessons\/lesson-1-initial-assessment\/1-1-what-are-vital-signs\/\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/vitalsigns\/?page_id=66\">Lesson 1: Self-Test<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.1 What are \u201cVital Signs\u201d? 1.2 Initial Assessment and SAMPLE History 1.3 Establish Patient Contact 1.4 Assessing the Skin 1.5 Assessing Level of Consciousness 1.6 SAMPLE History Lesson 1: Self-Test &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":22,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/vitalsigns\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/vitalsigns\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/vitalsigns\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/vitalsigns\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/vitalsigns\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/vitalsigns\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":729,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/vitalsigns\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions\/729"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/vitalsigns\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/vitalsigns\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}