Exam 2 - Chapter 11+12 Flashcards
Legal document prepared by a living, competent adult to provide guidance to the health care team if the individual should become unable to make decisions regarding his or her medical care; may also be called a living will or durable power of attorney for health care
Advance directive
exchange of information, thoughts, or messages; includes interpersonal rapports; also includes the accurate conveyance of information, clear self expression, and transmission of information and ideas to others. medical charting and documentation is a form of communication between health care professionals.
Communication
ability to evaluate, perceive, and control emotions
Emotional Intelligence
Pertaining to the study of older adults
Gerontology
Someone who has been admitted to the hospital for diagnostic studies or treatment
Inpatient
Model of human needs developed by Abraham Maslow, original hierarchy identifies two types of needs; deficiency and growth needs were further divided into seven levels, four at the deficiency needs level (physiologic, safety, belongingness, and love, and esteem) and three in the upper growth needs level (need to know and understand, aesthetic, and self actualization)
Maslows Hierarchy of Needs
exchange of information, thoughts, or messages using methods other than the actual words of speech - for example, tone of voice, speeds of speech, facial expressions, and position of the speakers extremities and torso (body language)
Non-verbal communication
Patient who comes to a health care facility for diagnosis or treatment but does not usually occupy a bed overnight.
Outpatient
application of light pressure with the fingers
Palpation
Music of language; cadence and rhythm of speech
Paralanguage
objective evaluation and determination of the status of a patient
Patient Assessment
messages using spoken words; the exchange of information or thoughts; can be dramatically shaped by vocabulary clarity, tone, pitch of voice, and even the organization of sentences
Verbal communication
is a people-oriented, hands on profession that requires proficiency in a wide variety of communication.
Radiologic technology
the ability to look at yourself and at others in an effort to recognize and understand emotions, and to use that recognition and understanding to manage those emotions in both arenas.
Emotional Intelligence
What famous quote come from Louis Nizer?
“Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man”
List 6 career ambitions that students and technologist have to satisfy
- Helping others
- Working with people
- Making a differance
- Thinking critically
- Demonstrating creativity
- Achieving results
_________ suggests that people strive from a basic level of physiologic needs toward a level of self-acualization.
Maslow
The highest level of Maslows Hierarchy of needs is?
Self-acualization
The word ambulatory means that the patient…
can walk
what would you NOT want to discuss with the patient?
medical chart
Questions about the diagnosis of an examination from a patient or vistor are best answered by:
explaining that only a radiologist can read radiographs
Which method is effective in communicating with a patient?
- Professtional apperance
- touch
- pantomime techniques
In what instances is touching a patient valuable?
- For emotional support
- for emphasis
- for palpation
What characterizes the development of a toddler (1 to 3 years of ages) ?
- Understands simple abstractions
- is unable to understand more than one word for something
- is unable to take the viewpoint of another
Of the changes that occur in geriactric pateints that are especially important when patients are undergoing radiologic examinations, what may produce patient paranoia about potential falls with potential for permanent loss of mobility?
Osteoporotic loss of bone mass
What is considered to be the first stage of acceptance of dying for a terminally ill patient?
Denial and isolation
What permits the patient to begin to work through the various stages that precede dying?
open awareness
What is considered undesirable for conducting a clinical history interview with a patient?
asking vague questions
What term includes a description of the color, quantity, and consistency of blood or other body substances?
Quality
determinization of a precise area, usually through palpation or careful wording of questions
localization
What are usually included as part of the chronology of a clinical history?
- Onset
- Duration
- Frequency
the primary medical probelm as defined by the patient
cheif complaint
an undesirable method of questioning that provides information that may direct the answer toward a suspected symptom or complaint
leading question
What are sacred seven elements ?
- Localization
- Chronology
- Quality
- Severity
- Onset
- Aggravating or Alleviating factors
- Associated Manifestations
primary medical complaint as defined by the patient; important because it focuses the clinical history toward the single most importsnt issue
Chief complaint
time element of the history, ususally including the onset, duration,frequency, and course of the symptoms.
Chronology
information available regarding a patients condition; traditionally comprises data on localization, quality, quantity, chronology, setting, aggravating or alleviating factors, and associated manifestations
Clinical history
undesirable method of questioning; provides information that may direct answers toward a suggested symptom or complaint
Leading question
determination of a precise area, usually through gentle palpation or careful wording of questions
Localization
perceptible to the external senses
Objective
description of the character of the symptoms- for example, the color, quanity, and consistency of blood or other body substances; size or number of lumps or lesions; frequency of urination or coughing or character of pain
Quality
pertaining to or perceived only by the affected individual; not perceptible to the senses
Subjectives
ability and right of patients to make independent decisions regarding their medical care
Patient Autonomy
