holistic health Flashcards
health asessment
evalution of the health tatus by taking a health history and performing physical exam
why is health assessment important
fundation skill for nurses, provides families, patient, and other members with relevant, timely and appropriatre care
complete health assessment
complete health history and resuts od a full physical exam
episodic/problem centered assessment
limited or short term problem
follow up assessment
monitors short-term or chronic problems
emergerncy assessment
rapid collecton of data, often compiled while life saving measures are occuring
point of critical thinking skills
- promotes patient health by assesing risk fcators and assessing social context
- sets priorities
- idenitfy expected outcomes
prioritiziing care
- life threatening
2.urgent
3.normal vs adnormal
- relevance and clustering of data
when using critical thinking watch for…
- assumptions
- incosistenics
- missing info
how to use in everyday nursing
-set priorities for your day and organize your workload
- deciding which client to see first, who is most important
critical thinking, judgment annd health assessment importance
able to conduct health assessments, and physical exams in a respectful and accepting mannor
health promotion: development and concept
- shift from infection to chronic
- consider physical and social enviroment
primary prevention
health promotion and disease prevention, prevents people from being sick
secondary prevention
refers to early detection of disease before symptoms emerge
tertiary prevention
referes to prevention of complication when dieseae is present
1974 lalonde report
highlighted limits of canadian health care system
1986 ottawa charter for health promotion
defined health as process of enabling ppl to increase to control over and to improve their health
health promotion interventions
- diet
- exercise
- sexual health
- substance use
- injury prevention
asessing self-care behaviour
use acronym DADSPIES to ak questions about self-care
- diet
- alcohol
- smoking
- physical
- immnizations
- exercise
- stress
screening
early detection of disease
active immnizations
se of vaccines or toxoid preparation that elicits immunological self-response
passive immnization
antibodies in form of immunoglobulin are administered to those already exposed to a disease
documentation
- document after care or as soon as possible
- reglar and frequent
getting ready for physical exam
prepare equipment
clean equipment
universal precautions
