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Acts towards another individual that display both an emotional and physical calm.
The use of touch, establishing presence, the therapeutic use of silence, and the skillful and gentle performance of a procedure are examples

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Comforting

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Universal phenomenon that influences the way we think, feel,and behave in relation to one another

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Caring

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Delivery of health care based on ethical principals and standards of care

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Ethic of care

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Deep physical, psychological, and spiritual connection or engagement between nurse and patient

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Presence

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Concept of caring extending across cultures that distinguishes nursing from other health disciplines

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Transcultural

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Group of interacting individuals composing a basic unit of society

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Family

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Nursing perspective in which the family is views as a unit of interacting members having attributes, functions, and goals separate from those of the individual family members

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Family as a context

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Nursing approach that takes into consideration the effect of one intervention on all member of a family

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Family as patient

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Caring for each family member and family unit, using all abalone environmental, social, psychological, and community resources

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family as system

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A family process that occurs in response to an illness and encompasses multiple cognitive, behavioral, and interpersonal process

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Family cargiving

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Patterns of people considered by family members to be included in the family

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Family forms

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Internal strengths and durability of the family unit; characterized by a sense if control over the outcome of life events and hardships, a view of change as beneficial and growth-producing, and an active rather than passive orientation in responding to stressful life events

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Family hardiness

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Acknowledging the importance if the capability of care recipients to share exchanges that contribute to a caregiver’s perception of self-worth

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Reciprocity

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Family’s ability to cope with expected and unexpected stressors

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Family resiliency

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First step of the nursing process. Activities required in the first step are data collection, validation, sorting, and documentation for health problem identification

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Assessment

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Active listening technique that prompts a respondent to continue telling a story or describing a situation. Involves use of phrase such as “go on,” “uh-huh,” or “tell me more”

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Back channeling

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Form if question that limit a respondents answer to one or two words

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Closed-ended question

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Experience other symptoms along with the primary sumptom

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Concomitant symptoms

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Information that a nurse acquires through hearing, visual observations, touch, and smell

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Cue

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Store or bank of information, especially in a form that be processed by a computer

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Database

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Method for organizing assessment data based on the level of patient function in specific areas

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Functional health patterns

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(1) judgment or interpretation of informal cues. (2) taking one proposition as a given and guessing that another proposition follows

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Inference

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Data collected about a patients present level if wellness, changes in life patterns, sociocultural role, and mental and emotional reaction to illness

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Nursing health history

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Systematic problem-solving method by which nurses individualize care for each patient

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Nursing process----->
Assessment 
Diagnosis
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
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Information that can be observed by others: free of feeling, perceptions, and prejudice

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Objective data

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Form of question that prompt a respondent to answer in more than one or two words

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Open-ended question

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Systematic approach for collecting the patients self-reported data on all body systems

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Review of systems (ROS)

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Information gathered from patient statement; the patient’s feelings and perception. Not verifiable by another except by inference

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Subjective data

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Act of confirming, verifying, or corroborating the accuracy of assessment dat or the appropriateness of the care plan

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Validation

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Judgment that is clinically validated by the presence of major defining characteristic

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Actual nursing diagnosis

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Is an objective or subjective sign, symptom, or risk factor that, when analyzed with other criteria, leads to a diagnostic conclusion

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Clinical criterion

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Physiological complication that requires the nurse to use nursing- and healthcare provider- prescribed interventions to maximize patient outcome

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Collaborative problem

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Set of signs or symptoms that are grouped together in logical order

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Data cluster

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Related signs and symptoms or clusters of data that support the nursing diagnosis

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Defining characteristics

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The name of the nursing diagnosis as approved by NANDA International

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Diagnostic label

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Study of all factors that may be involved in the development of a disease

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Etiology

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Clinical judgement of a person’s, family’s, or community’s motivations, desire, and readiness to increase well-being and actualize human health potential as expressed in their readiness to enhance specific health behaviors such as nutrition and exercise

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Health promotion nursing diagnosis

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Formal statement of disease entity or illness made by the physician or health care provider

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Medical diagnosis

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North American Nursing Diagnosis Association organized in 1973. It formally identifies, develops, and classifies nursing diagnosis

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NANDA-I

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Formal statement of an actual or potential problem that nurses can legally and independently treat; the second step of nursing process, during which the patient’s actual and potential unhealthy response to an illness or condition are identified

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Nursing diagnosis

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Any condition or event that accompanies or is linked with the patients health care problem

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Related factor

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Describes human response to health conditions/life processes that may develop on a vulnerable individual, family, or community

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Risk nursing diagnosis

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Is often a bright light, smell, or taste

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Aura

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Federal agency responsible for the enforcement of federal regulations regarding the manufacture, processing, and distribution of food, drugs, and cosmetics to protect consumer against sake of impure or dangerous substances

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Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

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Process by which resistance to an infectious disease is induced or augmented

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Immunization

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Microorganism a capable of producing a disease

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Pathogen

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Any substance that impairs health or destroys life when ingested, inhaled, or absorbed by the body in relatively small amounts

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Poison

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A harmful chemical or waste metering discharged into water,soil, or air

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Pollutant

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Device to aid in the immobilization of a patient or patient’s extremity

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Restraint

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Hyper excitation and disorderly discharge if neurons in the brain leading to sudden, violent,involuntary series of muscle contractions that paroxysmal and episodic, causing loss of consciousness, falling, toxicity and clonicity

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Seizure

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Encompasses all nursing interventions to protect the patient from traumatic injury, position for adequate ventilation and drainage of oral secretions, and provide privacy and support following a seizure

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Seizure precautions

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Prolonged or repeated seizures

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Status epilepticus

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Passage of drug molecules into the blood

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Absorption

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Harmful or unintended effect of medication, diagnostic test, or therapeutic intervention

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Adverse effect

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Hypersensitive condition induced by contract with certain antigens

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Anaphylactic reaction

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Chemical changes that a substance undergoes in body such as by the action of enzymes

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Bio transformation

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Time it takes for the body to lower the amount of unchanged medication by half

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Biological half-life

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Of or pertaining to the inside of the cheek or the gum next to the cheek

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Buccal

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To remove the toxic quality of a substance

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Detoxify

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Individual sensitivity to effect of a drug caused by inherited or other bodily constitution factors

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Idiosyncratic reaction

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Introduction of fluid into the vein , giving intravenous fluid over time

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Infusion

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Parenteral administration of medication; four major sites; sub q, IM, IV and ID

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Injections

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To cause to enter drop by drop or very slowly

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Instillation

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An injection of medication directly into cardiac tissue

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Intracardiac

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Injection given between layers of the skin into the dermis. 5-15 degree angle

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Intradermal

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Injection given into muscle tissue given at 90 degree angle

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Intramuscular

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Method of medication delivery that involves inserting a medication disk similar to eye contact lens into patients eye

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Inraocular

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Injection straight into a joint

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Intraarticular

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Injection directly into the bloodstream.

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Intravenous

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Process of washing out body cavity or wounded area with a stream of fluid

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Irrigation

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Adverse reaction such as rash, chills, or gastrointestinal disturbances to a medication

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Medication allergy

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Any event that could cause it lead to a patients receiving inappropriate drug therapy or failure to recieve appropriate drug therapy

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Medication error

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Response that occurs when one drug modifies the action of another drug

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Medication interaction

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A nurse admits a patient to a health care setting, he or she compares the medication that the patient took in the previous setting with his or her current medications

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Medication reconciliation

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Logically organized decimal system of measurement

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Metric system

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Statutes enacted by the legislature of why of the states or the appropriate officers of the districts or possessions that describe and define the scope of nursing practice

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Nurse practice act (npa)

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Drug given into the eye in the for of either eye drops or ointments

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Ophthalmic

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Giving medication by a route other than the gastrointestinal tract

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Parenteral administration

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Time it takes for a medication to reach its highest effective concentration

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Peak

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Minimum blood serum concentration of medication reached just before the next schedule dose

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Trough

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Study of how drugs enter the body, reach their site of action, are metabolized, and exit from the body

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Pharmacokinetics

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Use of a number if different drugs by a patient ego may have one or several health problems

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Polypharmacy

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Includes more detailed information than a regular order because the patient needs to understand how to take the medication and when to refill

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Prescription

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Any reaction or consequence that results from medication or therapy

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Side effects

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Mixture of one or more substance dissolved in another substance

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Solution

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Injection given into the connective tissue under the dermis

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Subcutaneous

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Route of medication administration in which the medication is placed underneath the patients tongue

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Sublingual

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Effect resulting from two drugs acting synergistically

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Synergistic effect

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Desired benefit of a medication, treatment, or procedure

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Therapeutic effect

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Effect of a medication that results in an adverse response

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Toxic effect

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Medication delivery device in which the medication is saturated on a wafer like disk, which is affixed to the patient skin

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Transdermal disk

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Order given verbally

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Vernal order

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Technique for injection irritating preparation into muscle without tracking residual medication through sensitive tissue

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Z-track injection

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Kind or amount of exercise or work that a person is able to perform

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Activity intolerance

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Body measure of height, weight, and skinfolds to evaluate muscle atrophy

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Anthropometric measurements

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Collapse ad alveoli, preventing the normal respiration exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide

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Atelectasis

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Placement of the patient in bed for therapeutic reasons for a prescribed periods

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Bed rest

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Means that individuals center of gravity is stable

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Body alignments

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Coordinated efforts of the musculoskeletal and nervous systems to maintain people balance, posture, and body alignment

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Body mechanics

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Group of therapies use to mobilized pulmonary secretions for expectoration

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Chest physiotherapy

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Increased muscle contraction causes muscle shortening, resulting in movement such as when a patient uses an overhead trapeze to pull up in bed

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Concentric tension

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A blood clot

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Embolus

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Abnormal neuromuscular condition of the lower leg and foot characterizes by am inability to dorsiflex, or evert, the foot

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Footdtop

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Effects of rubbing or the resistance that a moving body meets from the surface on which it moves; a force that occurs in a direction to oppose movement

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Friction

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Manner or style of walking, including rhythm, cadance, and speed

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Gait

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One side paralysis

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Hemiplegia

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One side weakness

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Hemiparesis

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Pneumonia that results from fluid accumulation as a result of inactivity

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Hypostatic pneumonia

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Inability to move about freely; causes by any condition in which movement is impaired or therapeutically restricted

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Immobility

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Activities necessary for independence in society beyond eating, grooming, transferring, and toileting ; imclude skills as shopping, preparing meals, banking, and taking medications

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Instrumental activities of daily living (IADL)

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Concentric and eccentric muscle action are necessary for active movement

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Isotonic or dynamic contraction

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Static contraction cause an increased in muscle tension or muscle work but no shortening or active muscle movement of muscle

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Isometric contraction

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Abnormality that may result in permanent condition of a joint; characterized by flexion and fixation

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Joint contractur

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Maneuver used to turn a reclining patient from one side to the other or completely over without moving the spinal column out if alignment

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Logrolling

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Person ability to move about freely

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Mobility

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Inducing or compelling force and occurs when specific bones such as humorous and associate with a joint such as the elbow

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Leverage

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Normal state if balanced muscle tension

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Muscle tone

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Loss of muscle tone, and joint stiffness

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Muscle atrophy

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Condition occurring when the body excretes more nitrogen than it takes in

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Negative nitrogen balance

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Disorder characterized by abnormal rarefaction of bone, occurring most frequently in postmenopausal women, sedentary or immobilized individuals, and patients on long term steroid therapy

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Osteoporosis

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Increased in heart rate of more that 15% and drop of 15 mm Hg or more in systolic blood press sir or a drop oh 10mm Hg or more diastolic blood pressure when patient changes from supine to siting position

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Orthostatic hypotension

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Fractures resulting from weakened bone tissue

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Pathological fracture

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Position of the body on relation to the surrounding space

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Posture

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Inflammation, sore, or ulcer in the skin over a bony prominence

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Pressure ulcer

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Range of movement of a joint from maximum extension to maxim flexion as measure in degrees of a circle

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Range of motion(ROM)

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Calcium stones in the penal pelvis

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Renal calculi

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Force exerted against the skin while the skin remains stationary and the bony structures move

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Shear

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Metal triangular shaped bar that can be suspended over a patients bed from an overhanging frame

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Trapeze bar

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Rolled towel support placed against hip and upper leg to prevent external rotation of the legs

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Trochanter roll

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Accumulation of platelets, fibrin, clotting factors, and cellular elements of blood attracted internal wall of vein or artery which sometimes includes lumen of the vessels

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Thrombus

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Not hardened

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Unossified

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Increased the risk of urinary react infection and renal calculi

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Urinary stasis

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Abnormal neurological condition in which language function is defective or absent

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Aphasia

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Related to or experienced through hearing

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Auditory

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Excessive cerium occluding the ear canal

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Conductive hearing loss

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Motor type of aphasia, is the inability to name common objects or express simple ideas in words or writing

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Expressive aphasia

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Is the inability to understan written or spoken language

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Sensory or receptive aphasia

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Pertaining to the sense of taste

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gustatory

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Overly sensitive to tactile stimuli

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Hyperesthesia

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Enables a person to be aware og the position and movement of body parts without seeing them

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Kinesthetic

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Pertaining to sense of smell

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Olfactory

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Otolaryngologist

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Audiologist

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Having a harmful effect on the eighth cranial nerve or the organ if hearing and balance

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Ototoxic

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Ability of the body to sense it’s position and movement in space

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Proprioceptioon

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Defect in the ability of the lens if the eye to focus light such as occurs in nearsightedness and farsightedness

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Refractive error

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Defects in the function of one or mor of the senses, resulting in visual, auditory, or olfactory impairments

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Sensory deficits

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State in which stimulation to one or more of the sense is lacking, resulting in impaired sensory perception

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Sensory deprivation

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Star in which stimulation to one or more of the senses is is excessive that the brain disregards or does not meaningfully respond to stimuli

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Sensory overload

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Relating to the sense of touch

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Tactile

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Is a sense that allows a person to recognize the size, shape, and texture of an object

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Stereognosis

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a disorder of vision due to a deviation from normal orientation of one or both eyes so that both cannot be directed at the same object at the same time; squint; crossed eyes.

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Strabismus

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