CM/ss Flashcards
Hope fostering activities
Spirituality
Relationships
Humor
Positive memories
Hope hindering activities
Isolation
Uncontrollable pain and discomfort
Abandonment
Double effect criteria
Action itself is good/neutral
Intends good, not evil
Good is not achieved by evil effect
Favorable balance of good over evil
Maslow hierarchy
Physiological needs
Safety and security
Belonging
Esteem
Self actualization
4 components of wellness
Capacity to perform
Adaptable
Feeling of well being
Harmony and balance
Aspects of critical thinking
Interpretation, Analysis, Evaluation
Inference
Explanation
Self reflection
Self regulation
Priorities
Validate info
Draw from past XP
Flexibility (outside the box)
Consider alternatives
Teleologic/consequentialism/utilitarianism
Greatest good for greatest number
Deontologic/formalist
Independent of consequence
Sense of duty
New grad competencies
Management of care
Safety and infection
Health promotion and maintenance
Psychosocial integrity
Basic care and comfort
Pharm and parenteral
Risk management
Physiological adaptation
Employer expectations
Theory
ADPIE
Know abilities and limitations
Communication
Delegation
Documentation
Basic skills
Information technology
Work ethics
Acceptable speed
Stages of Kubler Ross grief
Denial
Anger
Bargain
Depression
Acceptance
Principles of Kurt Lewin’s Force Field Theory of Change
Driving and restraining forces of change
3 phases: unfreezing (plan), movement (implement), refreeze (integration)
Neuro assessment: health hx
Pain
Seizures
Dizziness and vertigo
Visual
Weakness
Abnormal sensations
General hx
Complications for altered LOC
Respiratory
PNA
Aspiration
Pressure injury
DVT
Contractures
Early CM increased ICP
Altered LOC
Restless, confusion, drowsy, increased respiratory effort, purposeless movements
Pupils
Weakness at one side
HA
Late CM increased ICP
Cushing (high systolic BP, low HR, low RR)
Projectile vom
Respiratory and vasomotor
Hemiplegia, decorticate, decerebrate, flaccid
Respiratory
Loss of brainstem reflexes
Hyperthermia
Intracranial surgery complications
ICP
Bleeding, hypovolemic shock
Fluid and lytes
Infection
CSF leak
Seizures
Basilar skull fracture
Bleeding from nose, pharynx, ears
Battle sign (bruised behind ears)
CSF leak (halo sign around blood)
Epidural hematoma
Brief loss of consciousness
Then lucid
Then back to stupor
Concussion
Dizzy, vom
Lethargy, Hard to arouse
Changes in LOC, Confusion
Anxiety, Irritable
HA
Speech and movement difficulty
TBI complications
Decreased cerebral perfusion
Cerebral edema and herniation
Impaired O2 and vent
F lyte and nutrition
Seizures
Spinal shock
Sudden decrease in reflexes below SCI
Flaccid
Low reflexes
Decreased sensation
Can lead to paralytic ileus
May be hypotension and bradycardic
Neurogenic shock
Due to ANS dysfunction
Decreased BP, HR, CO
Resp issues (hypercap, hypoxia, p edema)
Secretion retention
Syncope
Warm dry skin
Pooling of blood increases DVT risk
Autonomic dysreflexia
Pounding HA
Increase BP
Diaphoresis
Nasal congestion
Bradycardia
Nausea
SCI complications
DVT
Ortho hypo
Autonomic dysreflexia
Death is most commonly associated with PE, PNA, and sepsis
Tetra/paraplegia comps
Spasticity
Infection and sepsis