Exam 1 Flashcards
3 levels of preventative care (primary, secondary, tertiary
Maintaining patient confidentiality
•Limits, check state requirements
- EMR
- HIPAA
Example of guy at soup kitchen with homicidal thoughts – sometimes it’s not easy to figure out what action you need to take
Definition of primary care
- Medical diagnosis and treatment (acute, subacute, and chronic)
- Psychological diagnosis and treatment
- Support patients of all backgrounds in all stages of illness
- Communication of information about prevention, diagnosis, prognosis, and possible treatment options
- Prevention and care of acute and chronic disease and disability through risk assessment, health education, early disease detection, preventive treatment, behavioral change
- HOLISTIC, COMPREHENSIVE
scope of job functions of primary care APRN
NONPF(National Association of Nurse Practitioner Faculties):
NP Competency Domains
1 Management of Patient Health/Illness Status
7 Culturally-Sensitive Care
NP Competency Domain #1 Management of Patient Health/Illness Status
- Providing health promotion/disease prevention services
- Providing health protection interventions
- Providing anticipatory guidance
- Providing counseling
- Promoting healthy environments
- Incorporating community needs, strengths, and resources into practice
- Applying principles of epidemiology and demography into practice
- Demonstrating critical thinking and diagnostic reasoning skills into clinical decision making
- Obtaining a health history from patient
- Performing a physical exam
- Differentiating between normal and abnormal findings
- Employing screening and diagnostic strategies
- Analyzing data to determine health status
- Formulations and developing differential diagnoses
- Initiating therapeutic interventions
- Managing health/illness status over time
- Prescribing medication
- Counseling patient on the use of complementary/alternative therapies
- Evaluation of outcomes of care
- Communicating effectively
- Providing for continuity of care
NP Competency Domain 2 The Nurse Practitioner-Patient Relationship
- Attending to patient’s response to changes in health status and care
- Creating a climate of mutual trust
- Providing comfort and emotional support
- Applying principles for behavioral change
- Preserving the patient’s control over decision making
- Negotiating a mutually acceptable plan of care
- Maintaining confidentiality and privacy
- Respecting the patient’s inherent worth and dignity
- Using self-reflection to further a therapeutic relationship
- Maintaining professional boundaries
NP Competency Domain #3 The Teaching-Coaching Function
- Assessing the patient’s educational needs
- Creating an effective learning environment
- Designing a personalized plan for learning
- Providing health education
- Coaching the patient for behavioral changes
- Evaluating the outcomes of patient education
NP Competency Domain #4 Professional Role
- Demonstrating evidence-based approaches to care
- Delivering safe care
- Functioning in a variety of roles
- Communicating personal strengths and professional limits
- Advocating for the advanced practice role of the nurse
- Marketing the nurse practitioner role
- Participating as a member of health care teams
- Collaborating/Consulting with other health care providers
- Advocating for patients
- Acting ethically
- Incorporating current technology
- Evaluating implications of health policy
- Participating in policy making activities
- Providing leadership
- Accepting personal responsibility for professional development
NP Competency Domain #5 Managing and Negotiating Health Care Delivery Systems
- Incorporating access, cost, efficacy, and quality when making care decisions
- Demonstrating current knowledge of health care system financing as it affects delivery of care
- Analyzing organizational structure, functions, and resources to affect delivery of care
- Practicing within scope of practice
- Applying business strategies
- Evaluating the impact of health care delivery systems on care
- Participating in all aspects of community health programs
- Advocating for policies that positively affect health care
- Negotiating legislative change to influence health care delivery systems
NP Competency Domain #6 Monitoring and Ensuring the Quality of Health Care Practice
- Monitoring quality of care
- Assuming accountability for practice
- Engaging in continuous quality improvement
NP Competency Domain #7 Culturally Sensitive Care
- Preventing personal biases from interfering with the delivery of quality care
- Providing culturally sensitive care
- Assisting patients of diverse cultures to access quality care
- Incorporating cultural preferences, values, health beliefs, and behaviors into the management plan
- Assisting patients and families to meet their spiritual needs
- Incorporating patient’s spiritual beliefs in care
Screening Test: factors that assist in decision making process for ordered screening tests
- Characteristic of the disease and its Rx
- Significant impact on health and longevity
- Treatment available and effective
- Treatment more effective early
- Characteristics of the test
- Acceptable risk & inconvenience
- Characteristics of population
- Accessibility to testing and therapy
- Willingness to be tested
Grades of recommendations: strong evidence for = A
Differential diagnosis-definition
distinguishing between two or more diseases with similar symptoms by systematically comparing their signs and symptoms
Hints:
- Consider the duration of symptoms (i.e. cough for 3 months has different differential dx than cough for 1 week)
- Consider the statistical likelihood of a given problem in your patient (i.e. think about age, sex, race, habitus, lifestyle….a 40 year old male with abd pain probably doesn’t have a uterine cyst)
- Don’t overlook potentially treatable conditions, OR potentially life-threatening conditions
- Think about zebras
- Might need another evaluation from a different provider or a specialty consult
- Might need lab results, diagnostic tests…or you may never find out exact cause and you may just have a presumptive diagnosis. Don’t jump to conclusions – be careful about labeling someone with a disease they don’t have (i.e. dx of HTN is different from diagnosis of elevated blood pressure). Can use symptoms as diagnosis if you’re not sure
Example: a farmer with nausea, headache, and weakness could have virus, Lyme disease, food poisoning, hangover, heat exhaustion, medication reaction, pesticide poisoning, pregnancy
Diagnostic testing-why order them
To make a diagnosis
To identify subclinical disease
To help form a prognosis
To monitor therapy
Always ask: Will the test change the treatment plan?
Considerations:
Interpret in light of what is already known about patient
Tests are not perfect
Tests should provide additional information
Test results should influence patient care
Test should be cost effective
Sensitivity
Sensitivity is the probability that an individual with the disease will test positive (few false negatives)
SNout (rules out)
for this reason, SCREENING TESTS given to the general population need to have high sensitivity; ex: enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) is a high-sensitivity initial screening test for HIV/AIDS à performed x 2 and those who test positive are then given a diagnostic test
(TP/all who have the dz(TP+FN))
Specificity
Specificity is the probability that an individual without the disease will test negative (few false positives)
SPin (rules in)
DIAGNOSTIC TESTS (given to specific individuals identified as at risk by initial screening tests) need to have high specificity; ex: western blot test used to dx HIV/AIDS in individuals who tested positive on the ELISA
TN/all who do not have dz(TN + FP)
NNT
In clinical treatment regimens, the number of patients with a specified condition who must follow specified regimen for a prescribed period in order to prevent occurrence of specified complication(s) or adverse outcome(s) of the condition”
Inverse of the absolute risk reduction
Perfect NNT is 1
The higher the NNT, the less effective is the treatment
Should be understood within the CONTEXT provided (eg., prevention context)
e.g., drug saves 2% of people – so need to treat 50 to save 1.
Relative risk
Relative Risk (aka Risk Ratio)
Probability of an outcome for someone with the risk, relative to the outcome for someone without the risk
When RR = 1 → no association between risk & outcome
RR can only be calculated when population data available for all patients of interest (ex: in a cohort study); by contrast, if only sample data is available (ex: in a case-control study), then odds ratio (OR) is used to estimate relative risk
PPV
Positive predictive value (PPV)of a test represents the likelihood that a patient with a positive test has the disease. (disease present (a)/total population(a+b))
NPV
Negative predictive value (NPV) represents the likelihood that a patient who has a negative test is free of the disease. (disease absent (d)/total population(c+d))
False negative
the patient has the disease but the test is negative
EDD
Naegle’s Rule: LMP + 7 days – 3mths + 1 year
Only useful if LMP normal, cycles regular
Estimated Delivery Date
ETOH use and pregnancy
Not recommended
Potent teratogen. Can cause FAS characterized by growth restriction, facial abnormalities, and CNS dysfunction
Recommended weight gain in pregnancy: where does it come from?
Most: uterus and its contents, the breasts, and increases in blood volume and extravascular extracellular fluid
The rest: metabolic alterations that result in an increase in cellular water and deposition of new fat and protein—so-called maternal reserves.
Nausea and vomiting in pregnancy
especially first half - to about 14 to 16 weeks
Seldom complete relief, but can be minimized
- Eating small meals at more frequent intervals but stopping short of satiation
- ginger
- Mild symptoms: vitamin B6 given with doxylamine
- severe symptoms: phenothiazine or H1-receptor blocker antiemetics
Backache in pregnancy: relief measures
- squat rather than bend over when reaching down
- back support with a pillow when sitting down
- avoid high-heeled shoes
- Muscular spasm and tenderness (acute strain or fibrositis): analgesics, heat, and rest
*Severe back pain should not be attributed simply to pregnancy until a thorough orthopedic examination has been conducted
Hemorrhoids: relief measures for pregnant women
topically applied anesthetics, warm soaks, and stool-softening agents
Heartburn: relief measurs
upward displacement and compression of the stomach by the uterus, combined with relaxation of the lower esophageal sphincter
- Mild: more frequent but smaller meals and avoidance of bending over or lying flat
- Antacids: Aluminum hydroxide, magnesium trisilicate, or magnesium hydroxide alone or in combination
- (more aggressive tx possible)
OTC safe and unsafe in pregnancy
no aspirins, NSAIDs – premature closure of DA, newborn bleeding.
Tell them what they CAN have, e.g., Tylenol, Benadryl
Labs ordered during first prenatal visit
CBC: dilutional/Fe def anemia
VDRL
HBsAg (refer to GI)
HIV
Hgb electrophoreisis: esp AA, Asian, all
Rubella: no vacc*
Varicella: no vacc*
Blood type, Rh & Ab screen
1st trimester screening,Quad Screen
Urine culture
GC/CT
Pap (as indicated)
PPD (if at risk)
Ultrasound for dating/ nuchal fold (<13 +6 weeks
*immunosuppressed – vaccinate after birth
Prenatal Labs ordered 15-20 weeks
15-20 weeks: Quad screen/ AFP/ Integrated screen
Quad: trisomies, NTDs
AFP: NTDs
Integrated screen: trisomies, NTD