You Are the School Nurse Assessing the Neurovascular Status of a Child

You are the school nurse assessing the neurovascular status of a child who had a sports injury. You check the skin color, capillary refill, skin temperature, and pulses of distal extremities. You report the capillary refill as within the normal range if it is less than:

A) 6 seconds
B) 5 seconds
C) 4 seconds
D) 3 seconds