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MDT Home Health Care Agency, Inc. Factors to be charted: PULSE: 1. Number of beats per minute 2. Rhythm 3. Beats missed at intervals 4. Over 100 beats per minute 5. Below 60 beats per minute 6. According to strength 7. Hardly felt 8. Rapid, quite distinct beats 9. Rapid, beats indistinct 10. Scarcely perceptible 11. Small, rapid and tense 12. Diminished rate 13. Slow in rate 14. With excessive recoil wave 15. Pulseless SENSATION: 1. Tingling 2. Of extreme heat, burning 3. Stinging 4. Prickling SKIN: 1. Normal 2. Pink, hot 3. Blue in color 4. Very white 5. Shines 6. Raw surface 7. Yellow in color 8. Torn 9. Cold and moist 10. Birthmark 11. Wart 12. Boil Suggested terms to use: 1. Rate 2. Regular or irregular 3. Intermittent 4. Tachycardia 5. Bradycardia 6. Weak, strong 7. Imperceptible 8. Bounding 9. Running 10. Slow 11. Wiry 12. Infrequent 13. Slow 14. Dicrotic 15. Asphyctic 1. Tingling 2. Burning 3. Stinging 4. Prickling 1. Healthy 2. Flushed 3. Cyanotic 4. Extreme pallor, pale 5. Glossy 6. Excoriation 7. Jaundiced 8. Lacerated 9. Clammy 10. Nevi 11. Verruca 12. Furuncle Home Health Agency Nursing Manual J-24