List at least six signs and symptoms of inadequate breathing to report to the nurse immediately.
What will be an ideal response?
| · | Movement in the chest is absent, minimal, or irregular. |
| · | Breathing movement appears to be in the abdomen, not the lungs. |
| · | Air movement cannot be detected by listening and feeling for breath sounds on your cheek and ear. |
| · | Respiratory rate is too slow or rapid. |
| · | Respirations are irregular, gasping, very deep, or shallow. |
| · | Respirations appear labored. |
| · | Patient is short of breath. |
| · | Patient's skin, lips, tongue, earlobes, mucous membranes, or nailbeds are blue or gray. |
| · | Patient is unable to speak at all, or cannot speak in sentences because she is short of breath. |
| · | Respirations are noisy. |
| · | Nasal flaring is present during inspiration. |
| · | The muscles below the ribs or above the clavicles retract inward during respiration. |
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