Exam 2 102 Practice Terms Flashcards
INTERpersonal communication
Between 2 people.
Public communication
Within large groups of people.
Transpersonal communication
Spiritual communication.
INTRApersonal communication
Communication that occurs within an individual, “self talk.”
Morula
Early stage of human development, solid mass of cells formed from zygote 3 days after fertilization.
Embryo
Stage from implantation until 8th week of intrauterine life.
Blastocyst
Embryonic form that arises as a cavity within the morula where cellular differentiation begins.
Animism
Attribution of life to inanimate objects.
How many hours does preschooler sleep?
12 with naps during day.
Risk factors for prenatal development
Inadequate nutrition, stress, infectious disease, drugs, environmental factors, incompatible blood types, maternal age and parental factors.
When talking with an older adult avoid…
Shifting from subject to subject.
The nurse may facilitate verbal communication with clients by…
Using short sentences that express an idea simply and directly.
Demonstrate active listening by…
Facing the client while maintaining eye contact.
Nurse states she is not sure she understands what you mean by “sicker than usual.” What’s different now? Nurse is using which technique.
Clarifying, which gives the client a chance to be more specific or give more information.
Positive outcome of a nurse/health team relationship…
Nurse receives encouragement and support from coworkers to cope with stress.
Nurse says to client, “we’ve talked a lot about your medications but let’s loon closely at why you’re having trouble taking them on time?” Nurse using what therapeutic technique?
Focusing, used to bring attention to key concepts or elements in a message.
Nurse says “we’ve talked about your surgery now let’s talk about exercises you can do?” Therapeutic technique used here…
Focusing.
Nurse working with client who has expressive aphasia, what is most helpful for nurse to do?
Allow extra time for the client to respond.
Nurse said to be engaging in collaboration with others to develop clients plan of care when…
Nurse works with colleagues and clients family to take advantage of combined expertise in planning care.
Best method for teaching recently diagnosed diabetic how to give injections…
Demonstration.
Client recently diagnosed with cervical cancer and is going home after surgery, client is avoiding discussion of illness and postoperative orders. When going over discharge instructions?
Provide only information the client needs to go home. Client must work through grief before being able to learn more.
Client having chest pain is to undergo emergency cardiac cath, what is most appropriate teaching approach?
Telling approach.
Nurse knows client ready to learn when…
Client expresses importance of learning the skill.
When teaching older adults…
Begin and end with the most important information.
After teaching a group a nurse sees group member correctly perform skill so she praise him and smiles, this is?
Reinforcing.
When teaching is viewed as communication, then a specific learning objective can be said to be developed from…
The referent. The referent is the perceived need for information, which provides basis for learning objective.
The assessment phase of the teaching process includes…
Determining learning needs.
The nurse should plan to teach a client the importance of exercise…
When the clients pain medications have taken effect.
Nurse teaching client self breast exam, what is a behavioural objective that best measures clients ability to perform the exam?
The client will demonstrate breast self exam on herself by end of teaching session.
Nurse about to teach freshman level health class on nutrition, to achieve best learning outcomes?
Develop topics for discussion that require problem solving, this helps adolescents achieve learning outcomes.
At what age are children able to play with others in a cooperative manner and have a temporary leader for each activity?
5
Leading cause of death among adolescents?
Accidents.
Phase of development where child gains sense of autonomy and independence?
Toddlerhood.
Toddler pretends to shave after watching dad shave, what Piaget stage is this?
Preoperative thought stage, 18 months-7 years old.
