How to Take a Temperature: Under Arm, Oral, Ear, Rectum, Skin, Temporal
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 พ.ค. 2024
- How to take a temperature in nursing using different types of thermometers: Nurse shows how to take a temperature in 6 different ways:
-How to take a temperature under the arm (Axillary - armpit);
-How to take a temperature orally (mouth);
-How to take a temperature in ear (tympanic),
-How to take a temperature on the skin;
-How to take a temperature rectal (rectum);
-How to take a temperature over the temporal artery location on the forehead.
There are many different types of thermometers: glass (analog) thermometers that are filled with liquid (formerly mercury but now other metals), digital probe thermometers, infrared thermometers, and more.
Glass thermometers are rarely used in a healthcare setting due to the risk of breakage, but they are still relatively popular for home use. This tutorial will show you how to use and read a glass thermometer, in addition to other types.
There are also many different routes you can use to take a temperature: The most common include rectum, mouth, armpit, skin, temporal artery (forehead), and ear (tympanic).
According to most experts, the rectum offers the most accurate reading. The armpit and skin offer the least accurate readings.
The average body temperature is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Anything over 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit can be considered a fever in both adults and children.
Taking a person's temperature is something you not only do at home when you're sick, but nurses also perform this task on the job.
Before taking a temperature as a nurse, you always want to perform hand hygiene, don gloves (if you will touch the mouth or rectum), clean the thermometer per the protocols in your healthcare facility (soap and water and/or an alcohol pad), and add a thermometer probe cover for added protection.
If checking a temperature orally, ensure that the patient hasn't consumed food or beverages and if they have wait 15 minutes to take the temperature, as this can distort the temperature.
When finished, always discard the thermometer probe cover, doff your gloves, perform hand hygiene, and document the temperature AND the route used (oral, axillary, rectum, etc.).
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I do not like rectum
nice job
Since the rectum is the most accurate, why not show us an example?😅
very informative video really.....
tell me how to use in schools ..as an activity....if we donot have any covering,,,???
shall we use sanitizer,,,????
I’m upset that the guy didn’t model for the rectal thermometer reading. He was fully participating until she mentioned rectal temp then he disappeared and didn’t come back
😂
wow thank you this video came at the perfect time. I'm in medical assisting school and we are learning vital signs
I loved this video. Great for me preparing myself for nursing school this spring
Thank you for your videos! It helps me a lot on studying vital signs.
This is so very helpful. Thank you for providing this very clear and concise video.
Have a bless day, thank you so much for your lecture.
Thank you for this very useful training. It has been very helpful and I’ve learned so much when I start my new job next week.
My colleague calls the temporal artery thermometer the "random number generator" 😂!!!! We've found it to be very inconsistent. There are also temperature probing bladder catheters that give a good core temperature. The only time I've seen the glass thermometer highly used was in underdeveloped countries. Then soaked in disinfectant. Well done Sarah! - Nurse Stefan💕
I forgot to mention the Swan-Ganz Catheter and esophageal temperature. Much more invasive however! 😱
Your voice is so intoxicating...I can't get over it 💕
i appreciate you for your works
you are doing fantastic job , teaching in very professionally and very detail orentied orated.
Very informative video,keep it up x
Hi Sarah, absolutely love your videos. Can you make a video on hemodynamics monitoring with shocks and stage of shocks. Your video always help me solidify and understand the lecture much better. Thank you.
Amazing!! Plz keep on posting such astonishing and beneficial videos.
Thanks for the information.
Mercury thermometers were so cool 😎
4:01 axillary temperature
Hi😃 your videos are amazing !! I had a question do you still allow us to download free notes different subjects ?
Thank you soooo much
FANTASTIC JOB!!
Hello, thank you for the lecture .
hi sarah, please discuss more leadership, management and legalities thank you so much, love watching your videos. RN Here from the Philippines, will be taking NCLEX soon.
Is it Sillman University?
رائع ، شكراً علي هذه الفيديوهات تساعدني كثيراً في الدراسة 🥰🥰
so helpful! thank you
Thanks 👍 very nicely done I commend you 👑
can you do a video on ventilators cpap and bipap
Hi! Freshman nursing student here. In our country, we don't recommend the use of glass thermometers (the one with the mercury) because you are right- it may break and further cause harm to the patient. Digital thermometers are better to use! :)
Thank you for video
thanks Nurse
Wow incredible video thank u
Thank you👀❤️
Used a cooking thermometer to check my temp.. very grateful to only reach 97
Thank you, I thought with the glass one it was used similar to the old mercury thermometer. Bought a glass one as a back up for this Covid 19, I usually use the battery thermometer :-).
Wow great I learn a lot
Awsome information
Thanks 😊
Thanks mam !!!love you mam!!!
What is the normal rectal temperature for a young adult?
Great video
Thank you so much..
Great information. Which is most accurate? Forehead VS ear? For 9 months old baby.
Do you happen to know how I can take the temperature of my feet. Thanks
Can you do a video how to calculate Temps?
You guys are cool
Thank you is video techear
Thanks
May body temp last night was 35.7° and now is 35.4°c and I'm not feeling well...I'm a little bit dizzy and feelin' cold.
I love you so much
ok, so rectal temp is one degree higher than oral and axillary is one degree less than oral......But what about forehead temp ?
Super vid . tq
Can teens use a tympanic ( Ear ) Thermometer?!
good performance
Thanks mam
I think the tympanic temperature 🤒 is most accurate
Thanku
He's not looking happy, he knows what's coming. Rectum Temp. 5:33 did I notice a slight grin on her face?.
When I got my p.e. luckily the aux was the ear
nice
What route do you call when thermometer is hovered on the forehead?
temporal artery method (forehead)
I have found digital thermometers to be wildly unreliable !
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This RN is extremely beautiful and I would let her take my temperature. The fella looks pretty nervous. Like he knows how the last way she's gonna take his temp. (or how she started).
I am afraid of temporal thermometers.
A dentist used one to check my tempature last week, and I saw a red light come on. I am not comfortable with haveing a laser beam pointed near my eyes.
I have a temp of 42.5 C
Hi. I thought it was for patients 3 years or younger that you pull down and back.
Hello, Melissa. The purpose of pulling the ear down and back is to straighten the ear canal so that you can get the most accurate reading possible. This age range is not set in stone, and some sources will recommend to pull down and back vs up and back at different ages. However, 12 months or less is the most common protocol, based on several sources. Nevertheless, we always recommend you follow the protocols of your healthcare facility or state.
Sources:
ftp.collin.edu/lcorrea/Department%20of%20Biology%20Page/Anatomy%20&%20Physiology/A&P%20I%20Nervous%20System%20-%20Special%20Senses/HOW%20TO%20USE%20AN%20OTOSCOPE.pdf
www.nationwidechildrens.org/family-resources-education/health-wellness-and-safety-resources/helping-hands/temperature-oral-rectal-tympanic-and-axillary-using-digital-thermometers
hi should i become a nurse
Whats more accurate?
Rectal is the most accurate
my body temperature is between 97.7 to 98.4F just make sure I've done it right lol
Dang, I thought you were from Australia the first few seconds of the video, because of the accent. Hahaha.
Nope. That's a southern US accent
Anyone here because of corona virus?
I am here because of the corona virus. I'm wanting to know why so many places use the infrared thermometers on peoples' foreheads when it is so dangerous to the pineal gland. I'm just a lay person wanting to learn.
@@catsebn927 me too kinda need information
I just have a fever that's it
Who is here because of thinking that he have the covid-19 ?
DId COVID19 sent you here?
Hloo sexy
Thank you for your easy yet accurate instructions.🩺♥️