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These is the second set of the most important Nursing signs that nurses and tech friends should know. It pays not to be ignorant with some terms especially when we go to the hospital and converse with our doctors. One can use this in the Nursing and other medical fields. Nursing students can even study here and enjoy the benefit of education right from their own personal computers. So go through these second twenty signs and enrich your brain tissues a bit.

1. McBurney’s sign – appendicitis
2. Murphy’s sign – gallbladder disease
3. Homan’s sign – thrombophlebitis
4. Chvostek’s sign – hypocalcemia, hypomagnesemia (pancreatitis)
5. Trousseau’s sign – hypocalcemia, hypomagnesemia (pancreatitis)
6. Positive Bence Jones Protein – multiple myeloma
7. Reynaud’s Phenomenon – blue, white, reddish discoloration of digits due to decreased oxygen supply
8. Malar (butterfly), discoid rashes – SLE (systemic lupus erythematusus) please refer to the picture below
9. Aschoff bodies – rheumatic fever
10. Koplik’s spot – measles
11. Pink frothy sputum – pulmonary edema
12. Reed Sternberg’s cells – Hodgkin’s disease
13. Abnormal Immunoglobulins G, A, D, E – multiple myeloma
14. Romberg’s sign – loss of balance when asked to close eyes, feet together, stand erect
15. Turners sign – bluish discoloration of the flank ( pancreatitis )
16. Friction rub – pericarditis
17. Knife-like pain – pancreatitis
18. Burning pain – PUD
19. Cramping pain – appendicitis, cholecystitis
20. Rovsing’s sign – appendicitis, applying pressure to the left lower quadrant of the abdomen causes pain on the right lower quadrant (McBurney’s point)

Nurses and tech friends, keep posted for the next sets of Nursing-related concepts only here in this tech site.

This is the first 20 Nursing signs that nurses and nurse aspirants must know. The beauty of incorporating tech and Nursing online can be seen below:

1. Chadwick’s sign – bluish cervix
2. Hegar’s sign – soft isthmus of uterus
3. Goodel’s sign – soft cervix
4. McDonald’s sign – easy flexion of fundus of cervix
5. Cullen’s sign – blue umbilical area; pancreatitis, ectopic pregnancy



6. Harlequin sign – newborn reddish on dependent side when lying down whereas pale on the other side
7. Currant jelly stools – intussusception
8. Projectile vomiting – pyloric stenosis
9. Ribbon-like/foul smelling stools – Hirschprung diseases
10. Bossing sign – hydrocephalus
11. Setting sun sign – hydrocephalus
12. Macewen’s sign – hydrocephalus
13. Low harsh murmur  in systole – Ventricular Septal Defect
14. Machinery like murmur – Patent Ductus Arteriosus
15. Bounding radial and carotid pulse; absent femoral pulses – Coarctation of Aorta
16. “boot-shaped” heart or “coeur en sabot” – Tetralogy of Fallot
17. Fixed splitting of second heart sound – Atrial Septal Defect
18. Cherry colored lips – carbon monoxide poisoning
19. Nuchal rigidity, Kernig’s sign, brudzinski’s sign, opisthotonos – meningitis
20. Low set ears, brush field’s spots – down syndrome

With this, your career as a nurse will be a lot easier, not to mention you’re using a form of tech to study online.