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Exam 1 Flashcards

1
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What is a Health Assessment?

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Subjective and objective data gathered from physical assessment, lab studies, and imaging from database. Used to make diagnosis and pan of care.

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What considerations should have for older adults?

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  1. Mode of address
  2. Elderspeak
  3. Fatigue
  4. Use of touch
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3
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Complete health history and physical exam from birth to present

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Complete Database

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Mini database that focuses on one problem

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Focus (problem) Centered Database

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Used when seeing client for second time and tracks progress, changes, and effectiveness of treatment

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Follow-Up Database

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Used for urgent collection of crucial information

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Emergency Database

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General Survey

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Physical Appearance
Body Structure
Mobility
Behavior

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Nursing Process

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Assessment
Diagnose
Plan
Implement
Evaluate

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Subjective Data

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Anything client tells you about themselves

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Objective Data

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Data you can prove or verify with another person or test

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Physical Assessment

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  1. Inspection
  2. Palpation
  3. Percussion
  4. Auscultation
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Inspection

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Using eyes, ears, nose, to observe clients whole body and compare sides for symmetry

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Palpation

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Using touch to assess skin temp., texture, moisture, organ location/size, swelling, vibration, lumps/masses

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Percussion

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Tapping on persons skin with short sharp strokes to assess underlying structure.

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15
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Percussion Tone: Bone

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Flat

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Percussion Tone: Organs

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Dull

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17
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Percussion Tone: Healthy Lungs

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Resonant

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Percussion Tone: Fluid in lungs or healthy children’s lungs

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Hyperresonant

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Percussion Tone: Air-filled Organs

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Tympanic

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Auscultation

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Listening to sounds produced by the body

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21
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Factors Affecting Temperature

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  1. Diurnal Cycle: lowest in morning - peaks afternoon/early evening
  2. Menstrual Cycle
  3. Exercise
  4. Age
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Adult Pulse

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50-95 beats per minute
Rhythm: Even tempo
Force: Should not be weak or bounding

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23
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Documenting Force of Pulse

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0=Absent
1+=Weak/Thready
2+=Normal
3+=Full/Bounding
Weak=Blood Loss
Full/Bounding= Anxiety, Exercise, or Abnormal Conditions

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Respirations

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10-20 Breaths per minute

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25
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Blood Pressure

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Normal: 120/80
Hypertension: higher than 130 and higher than 80

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Systolic Pressure

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Max pressure felt on artery during ventricular contraction - first sound heard when measuring

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Diastolic Pressure

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Resting pressure that blood exerts between each contraction - typically last sound you hear

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Pulse Pressure

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Difference between systolic and diastolic blood pressure readings

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Mean Arterial Pressure

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Systolic plus diastolic blood pressure divided by 2

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30
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Pain Assessment

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Provocation
Quality
Region
Severity
Timing
Understanding

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Nociceptors

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Specialized nerve endings designed to detect painful sensations from periphery and transmit them to CNS

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Nociceptive Pain

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Pain caused by damage to body tissue

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Neuropathic Pain

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Health condition affects the nerves that carry sensations to the brain

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Referred Pain

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Pain felt at particular site but comes from another location where both sites are innervated by same spinal nerve

35
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Visceral Pain

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Originates from large organs

36
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Deep Somatic Pain

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Originates from musculoskeletal tissues and body surface

37
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Breakthrough Pain

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Recurrence of pain before next scheduled dose of medication

38
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Cultural Competence

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Identifying your own values and beliefs before caring for others

39
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Cultural Humility

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Understanding the complexity of identities and opening up conversation in a way that attempts to understand a persons identities related tp race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation

40
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When might you consult a chaplain to support your client?

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  1. When client receives news of serious illness
  2. Person indicates they don’t have advanced directive but would like one
  3. When someone is coping with a situation where they may have a permanent disability
41
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4 Question Screening Tool for Alcohol Abuse

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Cut Down
Annoyed
Guilty
Eye-opener

42
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Components of Mental Assessment

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Appearance
Behavior
Cognition
Thought Process/Content Perceptions

43
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Intimacy Vs. Isolation (20-40 years old)

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Independence from parents, form intimate bonds with another person, set up/manage a household, make friends and establish social group, begin parental role

44
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Generativity Vs. Stagnation (40-65 years old)

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Accepting/adjusting to physical changes, reviewing career goals, developing hobby/leisure activities, adjusting to aging parents/ death of a parent, accepting and relating to spouse, attaining desired career performance

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Integrity Vs. Despair (Starts Age 65)

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Adjusting to changes in physical strength/health, affiliating with one’s age group, adjusting to retirement/reduced income, arranging safe living quarters, adjusting to death of spouse/family members/friends, conducting life review, preparing for one’s own death

46
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Components of Culture

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Culture is learned, adapted, sharing beliefs, dynamic

47
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Types of Cognitive Assessments

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  1. Time Orientation
  2. Place Orientation
  3. Three Words Test
  4. Serial 7’s
  5. Repetition
  6. Comprehension
  7. Reading
  8. Writing
  9. Connect dots or draw intersecting polygons
48
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Nurses Role With Client With Substance Abuse Condition:

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Advising and assisting the client regarding substance use and abuse

49
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Nutritional Status

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Balance between nutrient intake and nutrient requirements - balance affected by physiologic, psychosocial, development, cultural, and economic factors

50
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Physiological changes that Affect Nutrition:

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Poor Dentition
Decreased vision
Decreased Saliva
Slowed GI Motility
Decreased GI Absorption
Diminished sense of taste and smell
Decreased Energy Requirements

51
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Optimal Nutrition

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Person has sufficient intake to support body’s day to day needs and any increased metabolic needs based on clients circumstances

52
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Undernutrition

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Nutritional reserves are depleted and/ or nutrient intake is inadequate to meet day to day needs or metabolic demands

53
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Overnutrition

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When we consume more nutrients especially calories sodium and fat in excess of our body’s needs

54
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24 hour Food Recall

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Nutritional Assessment Test

55
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Health Effects of Abuse and Neglect of Older Adults:

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Malnutrition
Dehydration
Skin Breakdown
UTI’s
Medication Withheld
Injury
Fear
Emotional Distress

56
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Subjective Data (Hair, Skin, Nails)

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History of skin disease/allergies
Info about moles
Hypo- and hyper-pigmentation
Sores that won’t heal
Bruising/Injuries
Rashes/Lesions
Medications
Hair loss/unusual growth/changes in hair texture
Changes in nail shape/color/brittleness
Environmental/Occupational Hazards
Sun Exposure
Insect Bites
Self-care for hair, skin, nails

57
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Basal Cell Carcinoma

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Most Common Skin Cancer
Slow Growing - face, ears, scalp, shoulders
1. Skin colored papule with pearly translucent top and overlying broken blood vessel
2. Develops round pearly borders with red ulcer or open pore with central yellowing

58
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Squamous Cell Carcinoma

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Erythematous scaly patches with sharp margins (1cm) - heads and hands
1. Usually develops central ulcer and surrounding erythema

59
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Malignant Melanoma

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Brown but can be tan, black, pink,-red, purple, or mixed pigmentation
Found on trunk, back of legs, palms, soles and nails
1. Irregular or notched borders and scaling, flaking, or oozing texture

60
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Assess for Skin Lesions (ABCDEF)

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Asymmetry
Border
Color
Diameter
Elevation
Funny looking

61
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Assess for Edema

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*Press thumb on skin for 3-4 seconds
0=No edema
1+=Mild pitting, slight indentation no perceptible swelling
2+=Moderate pitting, indentation subsides rapidly
3+=Deep pitting, indentation remains for short time, visible swelling
4+=Very deep pitting, indentation lasts long time, very swollen

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Stage 1 Pressure Ulcer:

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Skin intact and unbroken, localized redness and skin doesn’t blanch or turn lighter with pressure

63
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Stage 2 Pressure Ulcer:

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Partial thickness, skin erosion with loss of epidermis and also dermis. Superficial ulcer looks shallow like abrasion or open blister.

64
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Stage 3 Pressure Ulcer:

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Full thickness extending into subcutaneous tissue and resembling crater. May see subcutaneous fat but not muscle/bone/tendon.

65
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Stage 4 Pressure Ulcer:

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Full thickness that involves all skin layers and extends into supporting tissues. Exposed muscle, bones, tendons may show.

66
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Tool used to help predict pressure injury risk:

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BRADEN scale

67
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When you move a part of your body by using your muscles:

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Active ROM

68
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A part of your body can move when someone or something is creating the movement:

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Passive ROM

69
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Review All ROM For Body Joints

70
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Used to help predict fall risk:

71
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Sign of chronic oxygen deprivation:

72
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Bluish mottled color from decreased skin perfusion:

73
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Sign of dehydration:

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Dry mucous membranes

74
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Normal change with aging:

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Less elasticity and subcutaneous fat

75
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Normal finding when assessing capillary refill:

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Return to color in less than 3 seconds

76
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Body part at highest risk of skin breakdown:

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Bony prominence

77
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Risk factors on BRADEN scale:

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Sensory Perception
Moisture
Activity
Mobility
Nutrition
Friction and Shear

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