oral+assessment

when conducting a physical inspection for an oral assessment, there are 5 areas which need to be examined:

1) extra oral ( skin area around the mouth) 2)intra oral (inside lips/mouth) 3)tongue 4)teeth 5)gums

if a patient is unconscious, two nurses should be used when performing oral care. mel

as done in clinical lab, use two buckets of luke warm water. the first one is for wetting the toothbrush and the second one is for rinsing the patients mouth. the patient can spit into the first bucket. i found this method easy and saves you walking back and forth to the sink and the patient