Test 1 Ch 1-11 Flashcards
Nursing role that encompasses keeping patients safe, communicating their needs, identifying side effects of treatment and finding better options and helping them understand their diseases and treatments to they can optimize their self care
Advocacy
An umbrella term given to an RN whose achieved a bachelor’s degree in nursing science (BSN) which includes educational and clinical practice requirements as well as minimum of a master’s degree
Advanced practice registered nurse (APRN)
Gathering information about the health status of the patient, analyzing and synthesizing those data, making judgements about nursing interventions based on findings, and evaluating patient care outcomes
Assessment
Assessment method in which a nurse examines the patient focused on a single system or clusters data related to that system together to identify issues
Body systems assessment
CNM
Certified nurse midwife
CNS
Clinical nurse specialist
An assessment that includes a complete health history and physical assessment (like a physical for school) done annually on an outpatient basis, following admission to a hospital or long term care facility or every 8 hours for patients in intensive care.
Comprehensive assessment
CRNA
Certified nurse registered anesthetist
An assessment that involves a life threatening or unstable situation and that focuses on A-airway (with cervical spine protected if injury suspected), B-breathing (rate and depth, use of accessory muscles), C-circulation (pulse rate and rhythm, skin color), D-disability (level of consciousness, pupils; movement)
Emergency assessment
Judgement of the effectiveness of nursing care in meeting the patient’s goals and outcomes based upon the patient’s responses to the interventions
Evaluation
This is an assessment based on the patient’s issues that can occur in all health care settings; it usually involves one or 2 body systems and is smaller in scope than the comprehensive assessment
Focused assessment
Type of assessment that focuses on functional patterns all humans share: health perception and health management, activity and exercise, nutrition, elimination, sleep and rest, cognition and perception
Functional assessment
Assessment that organizes collection of comprehensive physical data by proceeding through entire body from head to toe
Head to toe assessment
The National model for health promotion and risk education developed by the US dept of health and human services
Healthy People
NP
Nurse practitioner
Measurable findings from the health assessment, usually gathered in the physical examination
Objective data
Strategies aimed at PREVENTING health problems
Primary prevention
The early diagnosis of health problems and provision of treatment to prevent complications
Secondary prevention
Prevention of complications from an existing disease and promoting health to the highest level
Tertiary prevention
A-P
Anterior-posterior
BP
Blood pressure
CC
Chief complaint
C/o
Complains of
DOE
Dyspnea on the exertion
DTR
Deep tendon reflexes
HEENT
Head eyes, ears, nose , throat
HOH
Hard of hearing
ICS
Intercostal space