Respiratory assessment
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Respiratory assessment

Emma Brooker Nursing student, Royal United Hospital, Bath

Reading a learning zone article helped to improve Emma Brooker’s ability to assess patients with breathing problems

Ease of breathing is taken for granted in the healthy individual, but when pathology or trauma interferes with this vital process the effect can be devastating. The majority of emergency hospital admissions are the result of respiratory difficulties (Dunn 2005).

Nursing Standard. 22, 21, 59-59. doi: 10.7748/ns.22.21.59.s46

This practice profile is based on NS405 Moore T (2007) Respiratory assessment in adults. Nursing Standard. 21, 49, 48-56.

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