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What is palliative support?

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Dealing w/ cause of condition (root source)

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What can also interfere with correct message transmission?

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Message barriers

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What is interpersonal communication?

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A continual social process in which at least two people exchange ideas with the intent to influence the behavior or actions of the others

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What is the linear model of communication?

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Focuses only on the sending and receiving of the message, usually used in emergency situations, and very clear cut

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What is transactions communication model?

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Interpersonal communication as a reciprocal interaction in which both senders and receiver influence each others messages

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What is the nursing metaparadigm?

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A model that represents the most abstract form of nursing knowledge

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What is the nursing metapadiagram composed of?

H, P, E, N

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Health, person, envoirmental, nursing

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What is the concept of person in HPEN?

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The recipient of nursing care

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What are the attributes of person in HPEN?

G, L, CS, H, CV

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Gender, lifestyles, coping styles, habits, and cultural values

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What is the concept of envoirmental in HPEN?

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Envoirment can’t be separated from care

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What is the concept of health in HPEN?

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Culture religious beliefs and previous life experiences influence how a person perceives and interprets health and illness

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What is Maslow’s hierarchy?

P, S, L/B, E, SA

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Physiological, safety, love/ belonging, esteem, self-actualization

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What is the four level healthcare system?

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The pt is at the center, primary mission is to promote, maintain, or restore health, and communication focuses on interrelationships across agencies

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What is the development of self concept and self esteem?

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Life experiences, challenges, responses, social environment, role of the nurse

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What are the self- concept in interpersonal relationships negative attributes?

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Microagressions, microassults, microinsults, microinvalidations

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What invalidates the legality of consent?

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The patient doesn’t fully understand the meaning

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What is the responsibility of the nurse when it comes to consent?

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Verifying the competency of a patient to give consent

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What is the CRM model?

Correct mistakes

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Equivalent o SBAR and standardize communication between health professionals

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what does CRM stand for?

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  • crew
    -resources
    -management
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what are the risk factors for safety?

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  • inadequate break
  • work more than 12 hours consecutively
  • burnout
    -improper pt care
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What are the three c’s?

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Cooperation
Collaboration
Common clarity

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What are the diffrent barrier to safe communication?

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  • lack of patient identifier number
  • fragmentation
  • underreporting of errors
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What is the purpose of the SHARE tool?

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To standardize report tools, allow opportunity for questions, reinforce current goals, and educate the team

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What are the four fundamentals for the code of ethics for nurses?

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  • promote health
    -prevent illness
    -restore health
  • alleviate suffering
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What are civil laws?
Court decisions which are created through precedents, rather than written statues
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What is a tort? Malpractice
Private civil action that causes personal injury to a private party
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What is criminal law? Renewal of license
Intentional misconduct or a serious violation of professional standards of care
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What is the nursing process?
A systemic tool directing the sequence planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care to achieve specific health goals
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What are the five components of the nursing process? PID/D, OID/P, I/E
- problem ID/ diagnosis - outcome of ID/ planning - implementation/ eval
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When does the nursing process begin and end?
The first encounter with a patient and family and ends when discharged
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what is a requirement for HIPAA?
- provide patients with written notice of their privacy practices and procedures
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What are the pt rights when it comes to HIPPA?
- access to their medical records - request copies of health record - request amendments
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What information can’t be shared with family?
Family or other interested parties without pt written consent
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When or who can someone else sign for the patient?
- legal guardian/ personal healthcare agent - adults who lack the capacity to consent on their own behalf
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What is self concept?
Total of each person’s beliefs about their inner self
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What are factors that influence self concept?
- physical appearance - body image - self esteem -self clarity
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What is situation in SBAR?
ID yourself, the patient and the problems the pt came in for, include pt’s name, DOB, and verification of consent forms
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What is background in SBAR? RC
Relevant context and brief history ( diagnosis list, allergies, relevant vital signs, medications that have been administered, and lab results)
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What is assessment in SBAR? PL, MC, LOC, Pw/IO, EBL
State conclusion of health assessment, list your opinion about patients current status ( pain level, medical complications, LOC, problems with I and O’s, estimate blood lose)
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What is recommendation in SBAR?
State informed suggestions for continued care of patient
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What does role performance require?
Self efficacy
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How is personal identity constructed?
Through cognitive process of perception and cognition
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What is the correct technique for hand washing?
Rubbing from the palms to the back of the hands with fingers interlocked
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When is hand hygiene preformed?
Before and after direct contact with a patient
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When should hand hygiene be preformed during care for the same patient?
Contained body site to a clean body site
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What percent of alcohol should be in hand sanitizer at minimum?
60%
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What percent of alcohol should be in hand sanitizer at maximum?
95%
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What is the normal range for temperature?
96.4- 99.1 degrees
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What is the stable core temperature?
98.6
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When is temperature the lowest?
Early morning
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When is temp the highest?
Late afternoon and early evening
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When does can temperature be slightly high in women?
During their menstrual cycle
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Where does the sublingual pocket get blood supply from?
Carotid artery
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If you are taking a temporal artery temperature where should you place the probe?
Center of the pt forehead
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What is the temp more commonly used in children but inaccurate in adults?
Axillary
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What is the difference between men and women when they breathe?
Men usually breathe from the abdomen while women are chest breathers
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What is cardiac output?
Volume of blood ejected from the heart EACH minute
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What is normal HR in children? Infant, toddler, and school aged
Higher (75-160)
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Should respiratory rate be higher in children?
Yes
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Should blood pressure be higher or lower in children?
Lower
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What can cause a false low blood pressure?
- positioning the pt’s arm above the heart level - cuff is too wide - not inflating cuff enough -deflating too fast - pressing diaphragm firmly on brachial artery
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What can cause a high blood pressure?
- crossed legs - below the level of the heart - using a cuff to narrow - cuff is loose or uneven - deflating cuff too slowly - reinflation before deflation
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What does a health history consist of?
Subjective data collected during an interview
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Wha does a health history include? CH, CM, PI, PS, FH, PH, PSH, ROS
Current health Current medications Past illnesses Past surgeries Family history Personal health Psychosocial health Review of systems
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What are symptoms?
Subjective data (what the pt reports)
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What is primary source data?
Subjective (symptoms) data acquired directly from the patient
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What is secondary source data?
Subjective data acquired from another individual/ pt family
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What’s are signs?
Objective data ( data observed or measured)

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