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28 Cards in this Set
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Within cultures, groups of people share different beliefs, values, and attitudes
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Subcultural
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Microscopic organisms such as bacteria and viruses are responsible for specific disease conditions
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Germ Theory
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Documents a dysfunction and determines how that dysfunction affects self-care in everyday life
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Purpose of a Mental Assessment
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-Collect subjective data -Provides a complete picture of past and present health -Describes individual as a whole and how they interact with the environment -Records health strengths and coping skills |
Purpose of Health history
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ACRONYM W, I, T, L, w/ P, D, Au frm Av, G, F |
Ten traps of Interviewing
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Respect, Feel validated, be honest, stay in character, use icebreakers, explains every step, short & simple questions, avoid silent periods and reflection, use pos reinforcement and early intervention
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Interviewing the Adolescent
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ABCs plus V
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First level priorities: Airway Breathing Cardiac/Circulation Vital Signs (high fever) |
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Emergent, life threatening and immediate
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First level priorities
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Next in urgency: Mental Status, Acute pain, Abnormal lab values, risks of infection, security, or safety |
Second level priorities
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Important but can be addressed after more urgent problems
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Third level priorities
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The force flares the arterial walls and generates a pressure wave
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Pulse
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Normal Pulse rate
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50-90 b/m
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bradycardia
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<50 b/m
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trachycardia
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>90 b/m
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What is hypertension and what are the stages?
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Abnormally high BP Normal: 120/80 mmHg Prehypertension: 120-139/80-89 mmHg Stage 1: 140-159/90-99 mmHg Stage 2: >160/>100 mmHg |
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Hypotension
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abnormally low BP <95/60 mmHg |
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After open-ended questions, give patient time to think and organize thoughts without interruption
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Silence
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Feeling of care and concern for someone. Does not involve shared perspective/emotions.
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Sympathy
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Viewing the world from the other person's point of view. Understand with the person how he/she perceives the world
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Empathy
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Assessment Diagnosis Outcome Identification Planning Implementation Evaluation |
Six steps of Nursing Process
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Listening to sounds produced by the body (heart and blood vessels, lungs and abdomen)
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Auscultation
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Tapping the person's skin with short, sharp strokes to assess underlying structures
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Percussion
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Sense of touch using fingertips, grasping with fingers and thumb, dorsa of hands and fingers, base of fingers
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Palpation
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The collection of data about the individuals health state
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Assessment
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Order of assessment
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Inspection, Palpation, Percussion, Auscultation
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What's the difference between subjective and objective?
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what the patient tells you vs what you observe
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Clustering related cues
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See relationship in the data |
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Relevant vs. Irrelevant
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cluster data then determine which is important for the health problem
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