Ch 1-6 Flashcards
Signs
Abnormalities that can be verified by repeat examination and are objective data
Acceptance stage
Involves acknowledgement of illness and engaging in measures to become well
Acute illness
Illness or disease that has a relatively rapid onset and short duration (less that 6 months) EX: influenza, common cold, or UTI
Cogentital
Present at birth
Chronic illness
Involves a permanent change in health status that requires long term medical or nursing treatment (longer that 6 months) EX: hypertension or arthritis
Subjective
What the patient says or feels
Terminal illness
One in which there is no potential fore cure; ends in death (EX: hiv)
Hereditary condition
Disorder acquired from the genetic codes of one or both parents (EX: cystic fribrosis, huntingtons, sickle cell)
Congenital disorders
Those present at birth but which are the result of faulty embryonic development (EX:fetal alcohol syndrome, rubella)
Transition stage
One may deny feelings for recognize the symptoms of illness are present
Idiopathic illness
An illness whose etiology is unexplained
Etiology
The cause of a disease
Remission
Disappearance of any sign or symptoms but now cured
Convalescence stage
Process of recovering after illness and regaining health
Exasterbation
Deactivation of signs and symptoms
Stress
A nonspecific response of the body to any demand made on it.
Coping
Any behavioral or cognitive activity used to deal with stress
Adaptive coping behavior
Ability to mobilize internal/external resources and sustain general homeostasis
Living will
List the medical treatment that a patient uses to omit or refuse if they becomes unable to make decisions and is terminally ill
Objective
What you observe or your physical assessment
Maladaptive coping behaviors
Disorganization occurs; ineffective and destructive behaviors appear
Primary prevention
Avoid a delay occurrence of a disease or disorder. (EX: wearing seat belts, not smoking)
Tertiary prevention
Rehabilitation measures after disease or disorder has stabilized
Evidence-based practice
Systematic process utilizing current evidence in making decisions about patient care
Science of nursing (nursing process)
To assess diagnose plan and implement and evaluate
Tort
Violation of civil law
Accountability
Taking responsibility for ones actions
Art of nursing
Meet patient’s emotional and psychosocial needs provide support and comfort educate the public advocate on behalf of patients
Durable power of attorney
Once a person chosen by the patient to make healthcare decisions on the patients behalf
Negligence
Is the conduct the falls below the standard of care
Secondary prevention
Follow screening guidelines for easily treated disease if found early or detecting disease return. ( EX: Pap smear)
Patient rights
Given considerate and respectful care, allowed to refuse treatment, given privacy
Battery
The actually physical contact that has been refused or that is carried out against the persons will
Defamation
Attack on the name, business or professional reputation of another through false and malicious statements to a third person
Slander vs libel
Slander is a oral statement and libel is a written one.
Expected outcome
A measurable patient behavior that indicates whether the person has achieved expected benefit of nursing care
Sympathetic vs parasympathetic
Sympathetic stimulates the psychologic functions needed in the parasympathetic works to restore equilibrium
Advance directives
Documents in which an individual can specify his or her wishes regarding end of life care
Components of the nursing process
Assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation
Assessment
The process of collecting organizing documenting invalidating a patient’s health data
Nursing diagnosis
The process of sorting in analyzing the assessment data to identify potential health problems
Implementation
Caring out nursing interventions prioritized during the planning process
Evaluation
Assessing the patient to evaluate his or her response to the nursing interventions
Reactive
Knowing late and reacting to the problem
Malpractice
Negligence by professional person
Actual problems
Those that the patient is currently having
Euthanasia
With or without their consent
What is critical thinking?
To ask questions to analyze to examine your own thinking and thinking of others
Components of critical thinking
Knowledge, experience, competent,attitudes, and standards
High vs medium vs low priority
High-life threatening problems
Medium- problems that threaten health or coping abilities
Low-problems that do not have a major effect
Potential problems
Those that may develop and should be prevented from occurring
When should plan of care be reviewed and updated?
Every 24 hours
Symptoms
Data that patient has said occurring that cannot be verified by examination and is subjective data
Assault
The threats to harm another or even to threaten to touch another without the person’s permission
Clinical judgment
The outcome of clinical reasoning
Proactive
Knowing ahead
Planning
A series of steps in which the nurse and the patient set of priorities and goals to implement diminish or control identified problems
