Friday, November 7, 2008

Assessing vital signs in children

The vital signs are otherwise called cardinal signs. The vital signs includes: blood pressure, temperature, respiration rate, heart rate and oxygen saturation rate. The purpose of taking vital signs is to get a child's baseline reading on admission and to find any abnormalities from the normal state. If there is no prior knowledge of the child’s previous vital signs for comparison, it is important that the nurse be aware of the wide range of normal values that apply to children of different ages. Heart rate and respiration should be taken for a full minute. Any abnormal vital signs in children need to be assessed and monitored closely because it may an indication of underlying health problem. The following video talks about abnormal vital signs in children.(Royal College of Nursing,2008).
Reference:
Royal College of Nursing. Standards for assessing, measuring and monitoring vital signs in infants and children. Retrived in November 7, 2008 .www.rcn.org.uk/
Nursing care of children:Pediatric basics:Vital signs/fever.[video].Retrieved on November 05.2008 from http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=fmPaXxw5gj8.

(http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=fmPaXxw5gj8)

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