Hi, I'm Cory. I'll be your nurse today.
- (Cory) Are you Jonathan? - (Jonathan) Yeah.
Yeah? Can I see your armband?
- And when's your birthday? - December 14th, 1999.
- Oh! Guess what? - What?
December is my birthday too. It's on the 22nd.
So, I'll just check your blood pressure, vitals,
and all that kind of stuff.
Alright? Perfect.
- What grade are you in? - 9th.
9th? Yeah, okay.
- Do you like school? - Yes.
- Yeah? What's your subject? - Drama.
Drama? Did you do any plays at all?
Well, no. But we did a few projects.
Oh, okay. What kind of projects do you do?
We had to take, like, a fairy tale
and make it a modern day version of it.
Oh, wow. Let's take your temperature.
Well, that's pretty cool.
Did you do any sports at all?
I like playing badminton but I don't play on the school's team.
Oh, okay. [inaudible] Now, it's just too busy.
Can I see your finger? Doesn't matter which one. Any finger.
Okay. Great.
(beeping sound)
Perfect.
So, we'll take your blood pressure.
So I can see [inaudible] arm, doesn't matter what arm.
That one? (velcro being ripped)
Okay.
So, you're going to get all tight to these, alright?
- Yeah. - Okay.
Perfect. Okay.
(velcro being ripped)
- Do you play video games at all? - Yeah.
Yeah? What kind of games you play?
I like playing
Okay. Is that on the PlayStation or is that--
- (Jonathan) Yeah. - (Cory) Yeah?
- It is the PlayStation. - Oh, perfect.
Can you see my finger? Can you follow it?
And how many fingers am I holding up?
- One. - Okay, perfect.
So, can you put your arms against far away?
Perfect. That's good.
And your legs? Perfect.
So let's listen to your heart, okay?
Okay.
Now to your stomach.
That's great. Are your toes ticklish?
- Sort of. - Just sort of? Okay.
We'll just be really quick. Okay?
Alright.
So it's showing your pulse there, that's all.
And how's that? Better for your sock? Like it?
- Yeah. - Okay.
Next one.
Are you having pain at the moment?
- Nope. - No? No pain?
- Do you have any allergies at all? - No.
Okay. So [inaudible] are used for your medication for later.
Do you have any questions or anything? Comments?
- No. - Okay, perfect.
So I'm just going to put this here at your stomach again, okay?
- Does it hurt when I do that? - No.
No? Okay. Does it hurt when you breathe in at all?
- No. - Okay.
(hospital bed cranking)
So, you basically just saw me do an assessment on a 14 year old.
When I first came in, I introduced myself
and checked on the armband, also drew the curtains for privacy.
So as to make sure for the children that there is their privacy, basically.
Required to that, I did a full set of vitals
for the assessments.
If you did see me do a heart rate later, just because when you check a heart rate,
you want to do [inaudible] for one full minute.
And then, the good idea is to go and do a respiratory assessment.
So, listen to all the lungs.
And then, from there, go into the abdomen,
and listen to the bowel sounds.
Just because you're not going in and out of the stethoscope, off and on,
off and on, it's just a little trick for that.
Then starting, basically, head to toe, [inaudible]
central nervous system.
As you see, he's able to carry on a conversation.
So you automatically know he's a [inaudible] at 15.
He's alert, he's appropriate.
And then, moving on to his gaze. Make sure he's following my eyes.
First, my finger, then going to my eyes.
And then, after that, we did a limb movement raise.
Making sure he's able to go against me for his arms and for legs.
After that, we went on to the cardiovascular system.
So again, I checked his pulses.
Both his radio pulses and [inaudible] pulses,
and doing cap refill.
Then going on to there, I was able to do some [inaudible]
to his chest lungs, as how they sound,
and also the bowel sounds.
After that, I just did palpate, basically, the abdomen to see how everything goes.
That's basically that.
Of course, I also ask for allergies at the very end.
Because, usually when you guys come in and you do an assessment,
you're going to do vitals, assessment, and then you go get ready
to do your 8 o'clock or 9 o'clock [inaudible] medication.
And that's why I asked for, "Does he have allergies at all?"