Skill Checklists for Taylor's Clinical Nursing Skills: A Nursing Process Approach

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Copyright © 2011 by Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Skill Checklists for Taylor's Clinical Nursing Skills:

SKILL 1-

Assessing Body Temperature (Continued)

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15. Brush hair aside if it is covering the ear, exposing the area
    of the neck under the ear lobe. Lift the probe from the
    forehead and touch on the neck just behind the ear lobe,
    in the depression just below the mastoid.


16. Release the button and read the thermometer
    measurement.


17. Hold the thermometer over a waste receptacle. Gently
    push the probe cover with your thumb against the
    proximal edge to dispose of probe cover.


18. Instrument will automatically turn off in 30 seconds, or
    press and release the power button.

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