Exam 1 Flashcards
Med-Surg Nursing
Provides nursing care in variety of inpatient and outpatient settings from adolescents to end-of-life care
Rehabilitation Nursing
Focuses on returning patients to optimal functionality through a holistic approach to care that is based on scientific evidence
* Disability: considered severe if the person cannot perform one or more activities, receives federal benefits because of an inability to work, uses an assistive device for mobility, or needs help from another person to accomplish basic activities.
* Assistive technology: to incorporate devices to improve the functional capabilities of people with disability; these may include any item, piece of equipment, or product system that may be acquired commercially, off the shelf, modified, or customized
Rehab Goals
- Identify, reach and maintain optimal physical, sensory, intellectual, psychological, and social functional levels
- Focus on existing abilities to facilitate independence, self-determination, and social integration
- Goal is to assist patient to attain and maintain optimum health as defined by patient
- Maximize independence and prevend secondary disability, promote quality of life acceptable to patient
Health Promotion
- do not neglect health promotion issues
- healthy diet
- exercise
- social interaction
- preventive health screening
Chronic Illness
Conditions that last 1 year or more and require ongoing medical attention or limit activities of daily living or both
* Leading cause of death and disability in US
* Irreversible, having prolonged course, and unlikely to resolve spontaneously - learn to live with it
* Medical conditions or health problems with associated symptoms that require long-term (3 mo. or longer) management
Causes
* lifestyle factors - tobacco, alcohol
* obesity
* longer lifespans
* improved screening, diagnostic procedures
Challenges
* managing symptoms, including psychological
* return to satisfactory way of life after acute debilitating episode or reactivation of chronic condition
* carry out regimens as prescribed
Nursing Process
* Identify specific problems, trajectory phase
* Focus on: Regimens to control symptoms, avoid complications and psychosocial issues that affect quality of life
* Assessing status, managing meds, lots of education for regimen, have access to resources
* more interconnected care with other healthcare providers
Acute Illness
Generally develop suddenly and last a short time, often only a few days or weeks - less than 6 months
Pain
- unpleasant sensory, emotional experience with actual or potential tissue damage
- personal or subjective experience
- patient is more reliable indicator of pain
- most common reason to seek healthcare
Assessing Pain for Specific Populations
- The Hierarchy of Pain Measures - nonverbal patient
- FLACC - young children
- PAINAD - patients with advanced dementia
- CPOT - patients in critical care units
Pain Scales
- Numeric Rating
- Wong-Baker
- Faces Pain Scale
- Verbal Descriptor
- Visual Analog
Numeric Rating Scale
Horizontal 0- to 10-point scale, with word anchors of “no pain” at one end of the scale, “moderate pain” in the middle of the scale, and “worst possible pain” at the end of the scale
Wong-Baker Faces
Six cartoon faces with word descriptors, ranging from a smiling face on the left for “no pain (or hurt)” to a frowning, tearful face on the right for “worst pain (or hurt).
Faces Pain Scale
Six faces to make it consistent with other scales using the 0 to 10 metric. Preferred by both patients who are cognitively intact and older adults who are cognitively impaired, and by minority populations
Verbal Descriptor Scale
Uses different words or phrases to describe the intensity of pain, such as “no pain, mild pain, moderate pain, severe pain, very severe pain, and worst possible pain.”
Visual Analog Scale
A horizontal (sometimes vertical) 10-cm line with word anchors at the extremes, such as “no pain” on one end and “pain as bad as it could be” or “worst possible pain” on the other end. Patients are asked to make a mark on the line to indicate intensity of pain, and the length of the mark from “no pain” is measured and recorded in centimeters or millimeters
Types of Pain
- Acute: Short duration, usually resolves with treatment; result of tissue damage, surgery, or trauma
- Chronic: Can be time limited or last a lifetime
- Breakthrough: Chronic pain with acute exacerbations
Pharmaclogic Treatments for Pain
Nonopioid
* acetaminophen
* NSAIDS: ibuprofen, naproxen, celecoxib
Opioid
* Mu agonist: morphine, hydromorphone, fentanyl, oxycodone
* Agonist-antagonist: buprenorphine, nalbuphine, butorphanol
Adjunctive Analgesics for Pain
- local anesthetics: lidocaine patch
- anticonvulsants: gabapentin, pregabaliin
- antidepressants: TCAs and SNRIs
- ketamine
Nonpharm Pain Management
- physical modalities: TENS, hot and cold, massage, acupuncture, chiropractor, PT
- CBT: relaxation, distraction, music, imagery, humor, pet therapy, prayer, meditation, hypnosis
- movement: yoga, tai chi
- biological based therapies: herbs, vitamins, proteins, aromatherapy, diet
- energy: therapeutic touch, reiki
- gate control theory
Goals of Pain Management
- effective and safe analgesia
- optimal relief
- comfort function goal
- pharmacologic therapy is multimodal: combines medications with different underlying mechanisms, along with nonpharmacologic interventions, which allows for lower doses of each of the medications in the treatment plan, reducing the potential for adverse effects
Breakthrough Pain Management
Chronic pain with acute exacerbations
A short-acting opioid that is 5 to 20 percent of the dose you normally take to manage chronic pain - rescue med
* prevent pain by using nonpharm methods
Managing a Patient with Epidural
A more invasive method used to manage pain is accomplished using neuraxial analgesia
* Epidural analgesia is administered by clinician-given bolus, continuous infusion (basal rate), and patient-controlled epidural analgesia (PCEA).
* Nursing care for patients receiving epidural analgesia focuses on safely administering analgesia, achieving optimal pain control, and identifying and managing adverse reactions or complications.
* Closely monitor patients receiving epidural analgesia, including vital signs, pain intensity rating, sedation score, and degree of motor and sensory block
* Assess the patient for signs and symptoms of complications associated with the use of epidural analgesia including hypotension, nausea and vomiting, urinary retention, and motor block.
Disability Nursing Management
- assistance with carrying out ADLs
- effective communication strategies for those with hearing/vision loss
- people-first language
- Ramps, grab bars, and raised and padded toilet seats
Older Adult and Changes in Functional Decline
under-nutrition and dehydration, decreased mobility and loss of independence, accelerated bone loss, delirium and depression, pressure ulcers and skin tears and incontinence
Body Changes in Older Adults
- lose lean muscle
- atrophy in organs
- bones become less dense
- body fat increases, towards center of body
- stiffer joints
- cells unable to replace themselves, accumulate lipofuscin
- tisses become stiffer and less elastic with degradation of elastin and collagen
- increasing anemia