Midterm Prep Flashcards
What is the main contributor to inactivity?
Screen time
What is the guideline for physical activity?
60 minutes a day
What has happened over the years to the range that we allow our children to wander?
It has decreased due to:
- environment
- we’ve learned from our mistakes
- Being supervised all the time is not good
What do we as nurses do to promote health? (3)
- promote healthy eating and physical activity from a young age
- reducing amount of time on electronics
- avoid the “sit disease”
What is Bedrest?
- Prescription to stay in bed (ex. after surgery)
- It was invented as a form of treatment in the 19th century
What is Bedridden? (3)
- Formulation that happens due to external factors (culture, values, etc)
- holds a negative connotation, described as the final state that leads to gradual social death
- Involves loss of hope, dulling of senses, slump in cognition
What are some barriers to mobility? (4)
- cultural values
- belief that bedrest is restful and healing
- implicit biases about the elderly
- not enough knowledge or skills when it comes to ambulating/transferring clients
What are different phases of the Phase Model of Being Bedridden?
- Instability
- Incident
- Immobility in the Room
- Local Confinement
- Being Bedridden
What is Phase 1: Instability? (5)
- client has problems walking
- shaky, dizzy
- walking with furniture, unsteady, feeling like you might fall
- use of aids, walker, etc
- not super confident in walking
What is Phase 2: Incident?
- Incident occurs
- Leads to hospitalization
- ex. pneumonia or falls
What is Phase 3: Immobility in the Room? (4)
- Increasingly restricted in mobility
- client is instructed to get a hospital bed in their home
- comfortable chair can facilitate mobilization
- positive attitude helps with mobilization
What is Phase 4: Local Confinement? (4)
- Client feels tied down
- increasingly dependent upon others
- socialization decreases
- mental health disorders
What is Phase 5: Being Bedridden? (3)
- client is in bed 24 hrs a day
- bed becomes workspace (bathroom and dining room)
- resist talking over client
What are some ways to predict if our client is at risk of a fall?
- checking their hearing
- Chair test
- looking at clients feet
What is the room that is most risky for falls?
Bathroom
What are some things that make the Elderly more susceptible to falls? (6)
- Age
- Medications
- Osteoporosis
- Dementia
- Hearing
- Sight
What are some Environmental risks that may cause a fall?
- shoes
- handrail
- stairs
- aids
What are some medications that might cause a fall?
- sleeping pills
- BP pills that make you drowsy
What is the Morse Fall Scale?
A resource used to determine what risk is a person at for falling
What is the Morse Fall Scale made of?
- history of falls in the last 3 months
- secondary diagnoses
- aid, furniture walking, etc
- IV lock
- Gait
- Mental status, cognitively aware
What is important to remember about cardiac workload?
keep client in upright position as heart works less effectively when in supine
Why should we avoid the valsalva maneuver?
- it increases intrathoracic pressure
- slows blood return, and with release of breath, surge of blood is delivered to the heart
What is Orthostatic Hypotension?
- blood vessels get lazy
- when bringing someone who has been laying down to an upright position, this can happen, leading to dizziness and potential falls
What can happen when someone is immobilized for a long time?
Blood clots can form
What are preventions and interventions that can be done to avoid blood clots from forming?
- mobilization/ROM
- compression stockings
- anticoagulant meds
What is High Fowlers?
a upright sitting position best for breathing
What is Atelectasis?
Collapsing of the aveoli
What are some preventions and interventions to help with dyspnea?
- deep breathing + coughing exercises
- supplemental O2
What are other Hazards of immobility?
- skin care
- decreased ROM
- decreased peristalsis
What are Restraints?
physical, environmental, or chemical measures used to control the physical or behavioural activity of a person or a portion of their body
What are the types of Restaints?
- Physical
- Environmental
- Chemical
What are Adventitious chest sounds?
- Crackles = velcro
- Wheezes = more musical
What can a cough mean?
Infection, cold, etc.