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NAR>>As nursing assistants, the day to day care of frail elderly people is in your hands.
Your team leader, nursing supervisor and the physician depend on your accurate and timely
information.
Your work is extremely important.
It can make the difference between life and death,
comfort and pain, well-being or sickness. DOC>> when somebody has a
an infection their temperature may elevate, but in the elderly
the body response sometimes can be different and they in fact can have a low temperature
rather than an elevated temperature and so when people present with temperatures of
95 or 94, it may be as significant or even more significant than elevated temperature
that maybe the time, that may be the first signal that that person is getting an overwhelming
infection.
NAR>>In this program
Dr. Wertheimer asked you to join her as she goes over vital signs and explains
why this information is essential to the physician and to all the members of the health care team.