Final Flashcards
What is subjective data?
What the person says about themself EX: nausea, vomiting, dyspnea etc.
What is objective data?
What you as the health professional observe through inspection, palpation, lab values etc.
What is diagnostic reasoning?
The process of analyzing health data and drawing conclusions to identify diagnosis.
What phases are in the nursing process?
Assessment Diagnosis Outcome identification planning implementation evaluation
What is the assessment portion of the nursing process?
Collect data and document
What is diagnosis part of the nursing process?
Compare clinical findings with normal and abnormal variation and developmental events
- interpret data
- validate diagnosis
- document diagnosis
What is the outcome part of the nursing process?
- Identify expected outcomes
- Individualize the person
- Identify expected culturally appropriate outcomes
- establish realistic and measurable outcomes
- develop a timeline
What is the planning part of the nursing process?
- Establish priorities
- Develop outcomes
- Set timelines for outcomes
- Identify interventions
- integrate evidence-based trends and research
- document plan of care
what is the implementation part of the nursing process?
- implement in a safe and timely manner
- Collab with colleagues
- use community resources
- Coordinate care delivery
- Provide health teaching and health promotion
- Document implementation and any modification
What is the evaluation part of the nursing process?
- Progress toward outcomes
- conduct a systemic, ongoing, criterion based evaluation
- Include patient and significant others
- Determine results to patient and family
How many levels are there when setting priorities?
3 Levels
What is a first priority problem?
High priority, such as airway, breathing, and circulation
What is a second level priority?
Mental status, acute pain, infection risk, abnormal lab values, and elimination problems
What is a third level priority?
Lack of knowledge, mobility problems, and family coping.
What is evidence based practice?
The conviction that all patients deserve to be treated with the most current and best practice techniques led to development of EBP
what is holistic health?
Consideration of the whole person (mind, body, and spirit)
What does sending and receiving mean in the interview process?
Sending means to be aware of your verbal communication such as your verbage, tone, facial expressions; but sending is not the only thing with communication it also requires that the receiver understands and can process what you are sending.
What are some factors of the physical environment when conducting an interview?
- comfortable room temp
- sufficient lighting
- quiet environment
- remove distractions
- 4 to 5 ft of distance
Should you ask open ended or close ended questions?
open ended to allow narrative
What are the 10 traps of interviewing?
- providing false assurance
- Giving unwanted advice
- using authority
- using avoidance language
- distancing
- using professional jargon
- Using leading or biased questions
- talking too much
- interrupting
- using why questions
What is health literacy?
the ability to understand instructions, navigate the health care system and communicate concerns with the health care provider
What does SBAR stand for?
Situation
Background
Assessment
Recommendation
When assessing symptoms what information should you be attaining? (8 items)
- Location
- Character or quality of the pain
- Quantity or severity
- Timing
- Setting
- Aggravating or relieving factors
- Associated factors
- Patients perception
describe a mental organic disorder.
Caused by brain disease of known specific organic cause (dementia, alcohol, drugs)
Explain psychiatric mental disorder
In which an organic etiology has not yet been established. (anxiety, schizophrenia etc)
What are the two ways to calculate BMI?
BMI=weight (pounds)/Height (inch) x 703
BMI= Weight (kilo)/ Height (meters)2
What BMI is classified as underweight?
<18.5 kg/m2
What BMI is classified as normal?
18.5 to 24.9 kg/m2
What BMI is classified as overweight?
25 to 29.9 kg/m2
What BMI is classified as Obese (class 1)?
30 to 34.9 kg/m2
What BMI is classified as obese (class 2)?
35 to 39.9 kg/m2
What BMI is classified as extreme obesity?
> = 40 kg/m2
What are the two main processes pain develops by?
Nociceptive and and or neuropathic
What is acute pain?
- Less than 3 months
- Short term- Injury, protective to prevent further injury, sudden
What is Chronic pain?
- Not helpful
- Long term
- Greater than 3-6 months
What is cutaneous pain?
-Sharp/ Burning skin pain
What is somatic pain?
-Pain associated with muscle and bone, deeper, aching
What is visceral pain ?
-Organ pain, diffuse, hard to localize, frequent and severe
What is radiating pain?
-Pain that moves
What is referred pain?
-Pain that is in a different location than the injury or offense
What is intractable pain?
- Pain that is difficult to treat
- Pancreatitis, cancer
What is neuropathic pain?
- Pain in the nerves, strangulation or starvation of a nerve
- herpes, back injury, neuro disorders
What is phantom pain?
Pain in a place that the limb no longer exists in amputees
What is the priority when it comes to pain?
What will kill them?
What will keep them alive?
In a pain assessment what does PQRST stand for?
- Provocation (Palliation, precipitating factors)
- Quality, Quantity
- Region, radiation
- Severity, pain scale
- Time scale
What does OLDCART stand for?
Onset Location Duration Characteristics Aggravating factors Relieving factors Treatments
What does ICE stand for?
- Impact (on daily living)
- Coping stratagies
- Emotional response (sad, anxiety)
What are food restrictions of Buddhism?
- All meat
- Alcohol
- Pungent spices (garlic, onion, scallions, chives, leeks)
What are the food restrictions of Catholicism?
- Meath on some denominational holidays
- Alcohol
What are the food restrictions of Hinduism?
- Lacto-vegetarianism often favored
- Alcohol and intoxicating substances
- Garlic, onion and spicy foods
- fasting on some holidays
What are the food restrictions of the Islam?
- All pork and pork products
- Meat (not slaughtered)
- Alchohol
- Coffee and tea
What are the food restrictions for mormons?
- Alcoholic beverages
- Hot bevs, coffee and tea
What are the food restrictions for orthodox judaism?
- all pork and pork products
- Meat (not slaughtered)
- All shellfish
- Dairy and meat at the same time
- Leavened bread and cake during passover
- Food and bev on yom kippur
What are the food restrictions of seventh day adventist?
- all pork and pork products
- shellfish
- meat
- dairy
- alcohol
What does cyanosis of the skin mean?
Decreased oxygen results in a bluish tone
What does blanch skin mean?
Push on the skin and it turns lighter
What is Hurtuism?
Overgrowth of hair
What is the ABCDE for skin stand for?
Asymmetry Border Color Diameter Elevation and evolution
What is alopecia?
Loss of hair in random areas
What is HSV-1?
Oral herpes
What is HSV-2
Genital herpes
When assessing the hair what do you look for?
Color Distribution Thickness/ texture Dry Bleached of dyed
Describe the epidermis
- Thin but tough
- formed by the basal cel layer, horny cell layer
Describe the dermis
- supportive layer consisting mostly of connective tissue or collagen
- enables the skin to resist tearing
Describe the subcutaneous layer
- adipose tissue
- stores fat for energy
- provides insulation and temp control
What is an eccrine sweat gland?
-coiled tubules that open directly onto the skin surface and produce a dilute saline solution called sweat
What is the apocrine sweat gland?
-glands that produce a thick milky secretion and open into the hair follicles
Describe and annular lesion
-circular, beings in center and spreads
What is a confluent lesion?
Lesions that run together
What is a gyrate lesion?
Twisted, coiled, spiral, snakelike
What is a zosteriform lesion?
Linear arrangement along unilateral nerve route
What is a macule?
Solely a color change, flat and circumscribed
EX: freckles
What is a papule?
Something you can feel; elevated
EX: mole
What is a patch?
Macules that are larger than 1cm
EX: Mongolian spot, vitiligo
What is a plaque?
Papules coalesce to form surface elevation wider than 1cm
EX: psoriasis, lichen
What is a nodule?
Solid, elevated hard or soft, larger than 1cm
What is a wheal?
superficial raised, transient, slightly irregular shape from edema
What is a tumor?
Larger than a few cm in diameter, firm or soft, deeper into dermis
What is Utircaria?
Hives
What is a vesicle?
Elevated cavity containing free fluid
EX: blister
What is a Bulla?
Larger than 1cm diameter
superficial in epidermis, thin walled
EX: friction blister
What is a cyst?
Encapsulated fluid filled cavity in dermis or subcutaneous layer
What is a pustule?
Turbid fluid (pus) in the cavity
What is a keloid?
A benign excess of scar tissue beyond sites of original injury Most occurs in darker people
How many stages are there in ulcers? and what do they mean?
Stage 1: Intact, skin is red
Stage 2: loss of epidermis
Stage 3: PI extends into subcutaneous tissue
Stage 4: Full thickness and tissue loss
True of false: the head should be midline and normociphalic
True
What are the fontanels in a baby?
Anterior
posterior
When does the anterior fontanel close?
9 months to 2 years
When does the posterior fontanel close?
2 months
What is the metabolic master?
Thyroid
Does hyperthyroidism increase or decrease metabolic rate?
Increase
Does hypothyroidism increase or decrease metabolic rate?
Decrease
If a patient had wt loss, exophalmos, insomnia and is tachycardic does this patient have hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism?
Hyperthyroidism