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What does health promotion focus on and include?

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Focused on health rather than illness

Includes understanding health is multidimensional

Includes understanding health can also be affected by factors outside of the person’s control

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What was the transformation of the US health care system?

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From a disease focused healthcare system to one focused on wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention

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What is health?

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State of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing; is not merely an absence of disease

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What is wellness?

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Positive state of health that is continually changing

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What is disease?

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Functional or structural disturbance

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What is illness?

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Physical manifestations and subjective experiences

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Describe the scope of health promotion?

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Behaviors that promote optimal health across the lifespan. Includes individual, family, community, population, environment

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What are the three categories of health promotion?

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Primary Prevention
Secondary Prevention
Tertiary Prevention

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What is primary prevention?

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Preventing. Optimize health to prevent illness

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What is secondary prevention?

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Screening, identify early stage of illness to initiate treatment

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What is tertiary prevention?

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Disease management, prevent complications, and minimize disability

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When do you apply the concept of health promotion?

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Following an assessment. The assessment provides the basis for establishing a health promotion plan

  • individual assessment
  • family assessment
  • community assessment
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What is included in an individual assessment?

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Age, health status, presence of risk factors, health preferences and values, and social relationships

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What is included in a family assessment?

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Risk factors, family strengths, relationships among family members, and genetics

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What is included in a community assessment?

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Structure of community, community census, population demographics, mortality statistics, community resources

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What are the 5 health promotion interventions?

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Education
Immunization (cdc)
Screenings (there is a task force us prevents services task force)
Physical activity
Pharmacological agents
   -drugs used for smoking cessation
   -drugs used for weight loss
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Grade A US preventive services task force

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Strongly recommends, high certainty that the net benefit is substantial

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Grade B Us preventive services task force

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Recommends, high certainty that net benefit is moderate or there is moderate certainty that net benefit is moderate to substantial

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Grade C

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No recommendations for or against, there are considerations that support providing interventions for an individual patient but not for general population. There is moderate certainty that the net benefit is small

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Grade D

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There is moderate to high certainty that the intervention has no net benefit or that the harm outweighs the benefits

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What is the ANA code of ethics provision 5?

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Duty to self and others
Promotion of personal health, safety, and wellbeing
Preservation of wholeness character
Preservation of integrity

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What are the five stages of change?

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Precontemplation- I can’t or I won’t
Contemplation-both good reasons for and against change
Preparation- want to but…
Action- doing it
Maintenance/relapse- now a habit or risk of lapse

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Describe contemplation

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Cons of changing help the nurse to understand the person and their mind set. Pros of changing what will the person get out of quitting?

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What is the scope of motivation?

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Intrinsically motivated and extrinsic ally motivated

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What is motivation?

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The art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

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Define the concept of communication

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Is a process of interaction between people in which symbols are used to create, exchange, and interpret messages about ideas, emotions, and mind states.
Single biggest problem in health care

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Why is effective interpersonal communication between the nurse and patient most important?

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To improve satisfaction, compliance, and health outcomes

Communication is a contributing factor in 70% healthcare mistakes

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What are the IOM quality domains?

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Safe
Effective
Patient centered
Timely
Efficient
Equitable
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What is the safe domain?

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Avoiding harm to patients from the care that is intended to help them

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What is the effective domain?

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Providing services based on scientific knowledge to all who could benefit and refrain from providing services services to those who will not benefit

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What are patient centered domains?

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Providing care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences, needs, and values and ensuring that patient values guide all clinical decisions

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What is the timely domain?

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Reducing waits and sometimes harmful delays for both who receive and those who give care

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What is the efficient domain?

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Avoiding waste, including waste of equipment, supplies, ideas, and energy

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What is the equitable domain?

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Providing care that does not vary in quality because of personal characteristics such as gender, ethnicity, geographical location, and socioeconomic status

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What is the scope of communication?

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The scope ranges from effective communication to ineffective communication to absence of communication. There really isn’t such a thing as no communication

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What is linguistic communication?

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Spoken words or written symbols. Can enhance communication using general terms. Can hinder communication using medical terminology

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What is paralinguistic?

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Nonverbal messages. You can enhance communication using positive body language and can hinder it by crossing your arms

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What is metacommunication?

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Context messages. Can enhance communication with trust and can hinder it with distrust

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What does nonverbal communication convey?

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Messages without words and is under less conscious control than verbal statements. When a persons words and behavior are incongruent, nonverbal behavior most likely reflects the persons true feelings.

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What is complementary exchange?

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Each participant is either a sender or a receiver. Each transmission is completed, the receiver perceives the message, interprets the symbols, and responds using symbols

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Context (metacommunication)

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Context is important to the quality of the meaning derived by participants during the process of complementary exchange
Characteristics of environment
Internal mood states
Mental and physical conditions
Experiences and education
Culture
Relationship between participants
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Communication is a learned skill

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It takes time
Unique communication patterns within the healthcare environment
Medical terminology, health care culture, communicating with patients, envoy vine mechanisms for communication

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What is communication competence?

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Means that communication by the nurse is effective and appropriate

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What does communication competence includes?

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Skills for communicating clearly and accurately with the patient and family, other nurses, and other members of the Heath care team

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How does communication competence evolve?

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With experience and professional development throughout a nursing career

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What is health promotion?

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Process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve their health

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How many medical errors occur each year?

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98,000 medical errors occur each year in the US that lead to patient injury or death

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What is SBAR?

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Situation, background, Assessment, and Recommendation. It is used for communication

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When using SBAR, the nurse will do what?

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Describe the situation
Explain the background information relevant to the situation
Provide an assessment
Provide a recommendation for action

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What is the purpose of an electronic medical record?

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  • Accurate and timely documentation in the patient record
  • Important source of information and a major means of communication between members of the team
  • Legal Document
  • Evidence of providers actions
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What does advocacy mean?

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  • Speaking up for the patient to ensure that health care needs are met and is an expectation within the scope of professional nursing practice
  • The ability to speak assertively, credibly, and authoritatively is a high valued communication skill critical for effective advocacy
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What is assertiveness?

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It is the key to successful relationships for the clients, family, nurse, and other colleagues. It is the ability to express your thoughts, ideas, and your feelings without undue anxiety without any expense to others.

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Give examples of being aggressive.

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Loud, forceful, confrontational, out of proportion

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Give examples of being assertive.

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Clear, respectful, confident, comfortable, and active

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Give examples of nonassertive.

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Disregard, lacking, and passive

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What are the assertive rights (10)?

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  • to be treated with respect
  • to a reasonable workload
  • to an equitable wage
  • to determine your own priorities
  • to ask for what you want
  • to refuse without making excuses or feeling guilty
  • to make mistakes and be responsible for them
  • to give and receive information as a professional
  • to act in the best interest of the patient
  • to be human
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What does DESC stand for? What is it used for?

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  • describe the situation, express what you think and feel, specify your request, and consequences
  • It is used as a script for being assertive
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Describe the behaviors of an assertive nurse

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-appears self confident and composed
-maintains eye contact
-uses clear, concise speech
-speaks firmly and positively
-speaks genuinely, without sarcasm
-is non apologetic
takes the initiative to guid situations
-gives the same message verbally and nonverbally

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The language of caring:

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Caring communication is caring made visible. The goal with patients and their families is to ease their anxiety and earn their confidence, engagement, and cooperation

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What are some examples of good body mechanics that show you are listening to a patient?

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arms open, eye contact, leaning in, focus on what is being said.

  • Relax
  • be present in the moment
  • be aware of verbal and nonverbal communication
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What are some therapeutic communication techniques?

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  • listening/ remaining silent
  • establishing guidelines
  • making open-ended comments
  • reducing distance
  • Acknowledging/ restating/ reflecting
  • seeking clarification
  • seeking consensual validation
  • focusing/summarizing/ planning
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What are some non therapeutic communication techniques?

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  • failing to listen
  • failing to probe
  • parroting
  • being judgmental
  • reassuring
  • rejecting
  • defending
  • getting advice
  • making stereotyped responses
  • “Why” questions
  • changing topics
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What are some interrelated topics to communication?

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Culture, motivation, collaboration, and health promotion

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What are the three phases of the interview?

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  1. Introduction- introduce sell, hand washing
  2. Discussion- restating and reflecting
  3. Summary- summarize in own words the problem areas, plans, and whats going on
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What are some factors that affect the interview and communication process?

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  • Physical setting
  • Communication skills of the nurse
  • Professional nurse behavior
  • Patient- related variables
  • Questions: type of questions asked, how they are asked, and nature of information being discussed.
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What are open-ended questions?

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Focus on questions about the patients health and may need to refocus questions if patient cannot focus on topic

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What do closed ended questions do?

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They yield more precise date and give patients options for response

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What do directive questions do?

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They lead patient to focus on one set of thoughts. They are used most often in reviewing systems and evaluating functional status

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How do you manage answering personal questions?

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  • Brief direct answer
  • Share experiences that support patients
  • Enhance relationship and increase credibility
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How do you manage silence?

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It is necessary for the patient to reflect and gather, courage to address painful topics or issues. Give the patient feedback that they might not be ready to discus or that the approach needs to be evaluated

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How do you manage crying?

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Postpone further questioning until the patient is ready and give a compassionate response to enhance the relationship

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How do you manage anger?

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Deal with it directly, identify source of anger, discuss approaches and acknowledge feelings

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How do you manage overly talkative patients?

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Refocus the interview on events relative to the present, redirect using closed ended questions this may help reduce distractions

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How do you as a nurse manage other people in the room during an interview?

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  • Do not assume relationships
  • Parents or guardians may answer for a child
  • Interview adolescents directly
  • for adults unable to answer, another person may answer
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How do you manage a language barrier during an interview?

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  • Interpreter should be objective observer, of same gender, but not a family member
  • Takes more time to obtain the most important data
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What is holistic health care based on?

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The concept of “whole”

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What does holistic health care mean?

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Understanding clients in relation to their work, family, social environments, this encourages caregivers to consider many needs and tailor individualized interventions

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How are goals of care developed within a holistic framework?

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They are mutually developed. Interventions are designed for the individual, and clients receive the services most important and relevant to them. SPIRIT MIND BODY

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What is in the comprehensive health history during a holistic assessment?

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  • They physical, social, cultural, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual areas have an impact on health
  • Without knowledge of these six aspects, health care providers become narrowed and limited in their effectiveness
  • Information collected from assessment activities serve as part of the database from which medical, nursing, and other treatment decisions are made
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What is comprehensive health history?

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It established complete database

81
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What is problem-based or focused health assessment?

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Includes data limited to the scope of problem

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What is an episodic or follow-up assessment?

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Focuses on specific problems for which patient is already getting treatment

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What are the components of the comprehensive health history?

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  • Biographic data: initial visit
  • Reason for seeking care
  • Present health status
  • Past medical history
  • Family history
  • Personal and psychosocial history
  • Review of all body systems
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What is the history of present illness?

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  • Chief complaint of presenting problem:
    • Brief statement regarding purpose for visit
    • Recorded in direct quotes from the patient
    • Multiple reasons: List and prioritize
    • Patient may not give reasons until comfortable
    • Patient condition determines next step: urgencies, bibliographic data delayed, and data analysis
  • Include all of the following: onset, location, duration, related and alleviating factors, attempts at self treatment
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What is included in the Present health status?

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It focuses on the patients acute and chronic conditions

  • Current health conditions
  • Medications reconciliation
  • Allergies
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What is included in Past health status?

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  • Childhood illnesses
  • Surgeries
  • Hospitalizations
  • Accidents or injuries
  • Immunizations
  • Obstetric history
  • Last examinations
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What is included in family history?

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  • Blood relatives: biological parents, aunts, uncles, siblings, children, and spouse
  • Identify genetic, familial, environmental factors that might affect current or future health status
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What specific things do you ask about during the family history?

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  • Alzheimers
  • Cancer
  • Diabetes mellitus
  • Coronary artery disease, including myocardial infarctions
  • Hypertension
  • Stroke
  • Seizures
  • Mental illness, including depression, bipolar
  • Alcoholism
  • Endocrine diseases
  • Kidney disease
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What is included in the psychosocial status?

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  • Personal status: general statement of feelings about self
  • Family and social relationships
  • Diet and nutrition
  • Functional ability
  • Mental health
  • Personal habits:tobacco, alcohol, illicit drugs
  • Health promotion activités
  • Environment
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What is included in the review of systems?

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  • Past and present health of each body system
  • Conduct symptom analysis when patient indicates presence of symptoms
    -Define medial terms
    -Additional health promotion data
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What is the definition of culture?

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Culture is a pattern of shared attitudes, beliefs, self-definitions, norms, roles, and values

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Who does culture occur among?

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those who speak in a particular language and those who live in a defined geographic region

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What is enculturation?

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Process by which a person learns norms, values, and behaviors of another culture.

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What is Acculturation?

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Process of acquiring new attitudes, roles, customs, or behaviors

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What is assimilation?

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Process by which a person gives up his or her original identify and develops a new cultural identity by becoming absorbed into the dominant cultural group

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What is biculturalism?

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Duel pattern of identification

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What is ethnicity influenced by?

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Culture and common ancestry

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What is race influenced by?

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Physical or biologic characteristics

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What is the scope of concept?

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  • Casual beliefs about health
  • Illness expression
  • Symptoms of illness
  • Taboos
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What are the concept attributes?

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  • Culture is learned
  • Culture is changing and adapting
  • Values, beliefs, and behaviors are shared by members of the cultural group
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Describe what cultural competence is in nursing

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  • Expected component of professional nursing practice
  • Requires underlying acceptance of patient’s health beliefs
  • Requires adapting care to meet unique needs and perspectives of individual
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What are some examples of being biased?

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Stereotyping people

Tendency to act, think, or feel in a certain way toward other people

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What is stigma?

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Refers to a mark of disgrace

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What are conveyed acceptance and nonacceptance?

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-Verbal and nonverbal communication demonstrates acceptance or non-acceptance

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What is the definition of collaboration?

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a development of partnerships to achieve the best possible outcomes that reflect the particular needs of the patient, family, or community, requiring an understanding of what others have to offer

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What is the word collaboration derived from?

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Latin word collaborate which means to labor together or to work with others in an intellectual endeavor

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What does collaboration involve?

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joint responsibility for patient outcomes

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What are the four overarching categories of collaboration?

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  1. Nurse-patient
  2. Nurse- Nurse
  3. Inter-organizational
  4. Interprofessional
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What are the six levels of Nurse-Patient collaboration?

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  1. Assessment
  2. Diagnosis
  3. Outcomes identification
  4. Planning
  5. Implementation
  6. Evaluation
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Describe interprofessional collaboration:

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  • Working across professional disciplines to optimize patient care is an expectation in health care delivery
  • Expertise and diverse perspectives influenced by professional orientation, are valued and contribute to the delivery of care
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Describe inter-organization collaboration:

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  • Is important in today’s health care environment

- Pooling resources and information benefits both patients and communities

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What are 4 attributes of effective inter professional collaboration?

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  1. Values and ethics
  2. Roles and responsibilities
  3. Communication
  4. Teams and teamwork
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What role does the QSEN have in collaboration?

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The Quality and Safety Education in Nursing initiative anticipates that collaboration will have a huge impact on positive patient outcomes and improve quality of care

114
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What does the institute of medicine identify?

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Effectively working together as an important professional competency.

115
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What did the joint commision cite?

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Cited the breakdown in communication among team members as the primary factor in sentinel events

116
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What does strong teamwork culture promote (4)?

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  • Job retention
  • Decreased resignation rates
  • Improved perceptions of RN-physician communication
  • Improved communication skills
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What is the educational impact of collaboration?

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  • Decreased length of stay for patients

- Increased economic benefits to health care organizations

118
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What is the research impact of collaboration?

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  • Health sciences research is moving away from the private investigator model to a collaborative model represented by inter- professional collaborators
  • Funding agencies are increasingly mandating collaboration as a requirement for grant funding
119
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What are the seven principles of quality health care?

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  1. Do NO harm
  2. Accept each client as a whole person
  3. Develop a mutual trust
  4. Explore behaviors and emotions
  5. Encourage responsibility
  6. Encourage effective adaptation
  7. Provide consistency
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Explain “Do no harm”

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  • Responsibility to protect clients

- No matter what, avoid any action that amy result in harm to the patient

121
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Explain “accept each client as a whole person”

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  • diffferences do not need to be understood, but accepted
  • holistic heath care is based on concept of “whole”
  • Viewing clients holistically also involves acceptance of their lifestyle, attitudes, social interactions, and living conditions
  • Accepting clients does not necessarily include approving of their behaviors
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Explain “Develop Mutual Trust”

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  • Trust implies cooperation, support, and willingness to work together
  • For a careprovider trust is the foundation of therapeutic relationships
123
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What three concepts are involved in trust between caregiver and client?

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Caring
Empathy
Advocacy

124
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Explain “Explore Behaviors and Emotions”

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  • every behavior serces a purpose and has meaning
  • by sharing perceptions, the health care provider can help clients see how their behavior messages are being received by other people
125
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What are the four components of behavior?

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  • Perception
  • Thinking
  • Feeling
  • Acting
126
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Explain “Encourage Responsibility”

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-Anyone under stress can exhibit unsuccessful coping behaviors

127
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What do health care providers encourage?

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One step at a time and learning of coping mechanisms

128
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When does recovery begin?

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When attempts to cope with the problem result in success

129
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What does consistency of behaviors imply?

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Being steady, regular, and dependable

130
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Where is consistency usually addressed?

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in the client’s plan of care

131
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What are the guidelines for providing consistency?

A

Setting limits and focusing on the positive changes that clients are making

132
Q

What is empathy?

A

Ability to recognize and share the emotions of another person without actually experiencing them

133
Q

What are five behaviors associated with caring?

A
  1. Accepting
  2. Comforting
  3. Being honest
  4. LIstening attentively
  5. Having sensitivity
134
Q

What are some therapeutic actions associated with caring?

A
  • Address client by Mr./Mrs. unless told otherwise
  • Respect client’s unique personality
  • Dont judge client’s behaviors or attitudes
  • Share often that every person has potential to change
  • Customize information to pts level of understanding
  • Watch for nonverbal messages
  • Be encouraging
  • Assess your own interactions, nonverbal actions and communications
135
Q

What is the definition of empathy?

A
  • The act of communicating to our fellow human beings that we understand something about their world
  • Free of the judgement of condolence
  • Value-free message showing that you understand the other person point of view
136
Q

What is preverbal aspect of empathy?

A

Understanding to tension/discomfort to nurse wants to be helpful

137
Q

What are the verbal aspects of empathy?

A

Uses therapeutic technique of reflection

  • Accuracy
  • Specificity
  • Naturalness
138
Q

What is the nonverbal aspects of empathy?

A

Warmth and genuineness

139
Q

Professional boundaries:

A

Be defined by caregivers, crossed when caregivers become too helpful or controlling, and must be balanced because one cannot focus on the client and the self at the same time

140
Q

What are the guidelines for appropriate self- disclosure?

A
  • Anything being revealed about yourself should be done to benefit the patients
  • Should never burden the patient
141
Q

How can you develop a positive attitude?

A
  • Listen to yourself talk
  • Change recurrent negative themes
  • Be your own cheerleader
  • Visualize future successes
  • Act the part
142
Q

What is entailed to nurture yourself?

A
  • Be responsible and accountable for your actions
  • Be open to new ideas
  • Connect with others
  • Take pride in yourself
  • Like what you do

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