UNIT 1 & UNIT 2 Flashcards
Who Is Florence Nightngale?
1st Nursing Theorist
Lady With The Lamp
Who is the Lady with the lamp?
Florence Nightngale
What did Florence Nightngale Contribute?
Training Women for future work.
Sanitary Conditions (Like Washing Hands).
Reducing death rates for sick and injured.
Healthy diets (garden).
Cared for soliders.
Introducing that soliders needed some kind of light.
Steps in Nursing Ladder starting at LVN
LVN RN RN--->BSN RN---->MSN-->Practioner RN----->Doctorate-->PHD-->DNP
What are the Unique Nursing Skills?
give an example of each one
“ac3”
- Assessment Skills: Interviewing, observing,examing client and family.
- Caring Skills: ADLs.. Bathing, Ambulating, Feeding, anything that helps client go on with their ADLs.
- Counselling Skills: Active listening, offering health teaching/ education within nurses knowledge, emotonial support.
- Comforting Skills: Being a guide, supportive, compasionate. Anything to make patient feel comfort.
What is EMPATHY?
Give Example
Aware of what the client is feeling
What is SYMPATHY?
Give Example
Feeling as emotionally ditraught as the patient.
Define Health.
A state of complete physical, mental, and social well- being.
Define Wellness.
Full balanced integration of all aspects of health
Define Holism.
Sum of physical, emotional,social,and spritual health.
Maslow’s Hiearchy of Human Needs
Self Actualization Esteem/Self Esteem Love/Belonging Saftey/ Security Physiologic Needs
List order of how nurses priorities for patient care.
Physiological Needs
Safety and Security
Esteem and Self Esteem
Self Actualization
How is Maslows Hierarchy used in Nursing?
By prioritizing the patients care
Define Illness.
State of being unhealthy
Define Morbidity.
Inciedence of a specific diease, disorder, or injury: refers to the rate of which people were affected.
Define Mortality.
Inciedence of deaths; Denotes number of people who died from paticular diease/condition.
- Thing MORTality as in MORTicion - Mortality is related with death mortition specializes in taking care of client after death*
Define Acute.
Comes Suddenly
Define Chronic.
Comes Slowly/ Long Lasting
Define Terminal.
No potential for a cure.
Define Primary.
One that develops indapendently of any other diease
Define Secondary.
Diease that develops from a preexisting condition
Define Remission.
Dissaperance of signs and symptoms
Define Exacerbation
Reactivation of a disorder or one that revert from a chronic to an acute state.
Define Hereditary.
Aquired from genetics/ codes of both or one parent.
Define Congenital.
Those that present at birth/ result of a faulty embryotic development.
- when you think of conGENITAL think of GENITAL (haha) birth happens from womans genital area so a conGential illness would be one that happened at birth*
Define Idiopathic
An illness of an unknown cause.
Define Homeostasis
Relatively stable state of physical equilibrium
What are the 4 types of stressors?
Physiological
Psychologic
Spritual
Social
Explain the the 4 types of stressors.
Physiological- affects body
Psychologic- Plays with head
Spirtual- Death, Sin, Guilt
Social- Pandemic, Lockdown, Wheather changes
Define Adaption
Response of an organism to change
What is a Neurotransmitter?
Chemical messangers synthesized with neurons
What are some examples of Neurotransmitters?
serotonin
dopamine
epinephrine
norepinephrine
What does the Sympathetic Nervous System do?
Prepares body for fight or flight
What does the Parasympathetic Nervous System do?
Restores equilibrium after danger is no longer aparent
Which system does fight or flight happen in?
Parasympathetic Nervous System
What is G.A.S?
General Apdataion Syndrom
* Hans Selye has Gas*
What are the four categories of clients needs?
- Safe/ Effetive enviorment
- Health Promotion/ Maitenance
- Psychosocial Integrity
- Physiologic Integrity
What are the Four Nursing Roles?
* With all these roles I…*
Caregiver
Educator
Collaborator
Dellagator
Define each of the Four Nursing Roles.
- Caregiver/ preforms health related activities clinents cant perform indepenfently.
- Educator/ One who provides education, only on knowledge basis
- Collaborator/ One who works with others
- Dellagator/ One who assigns a task to someone. * You are still responsible for the task you delagated.
Phases of Nurse client Relationship.
what you do during a shift in order
Introductory
Working
Terminating
BARRIERS to a Therapeutic Nurse Client Relationship
Appearing unkept failing to identify one self (verbally) Miss pronoucing clinets name avoiding clients name using clients first name without permission sharing personal problems or information using crude or distastful launge recealing confidential information abondaning client failing to keep promise
Define Communication.
An exchange of information.
Define Verbal Communication
Communication that uses words
Define Therapeutic
Ecourging expression and Feeling
What are some therapeutic communication techniques
Broad opening Paraphrasing Direct Questioning Giving Information Open Ended Questions Summarizing Silence
What is the role of listening in communication?
Active Listening
What role does silence play in communication?
It encourges patient to partcipate in verbal discussion
Define Kinesics
Body Lauguage
-Noverbal Techs.
~ Facial Expressinons, Posture, Gestures,Body Movement
Define Paralanguage
Vocal Sounds
-Not words
~Deep Breath, whistling, crying, laughing, moaning
Define Proxemics
Space to communicate
- Intimate ~6inches
- Personal~6inches-4ft
- Social~4-12 ft
- Public~ +12 ft
What role does touch play in communication
To communicate caring and support
How would you communicate with a verbally impaired client?
Provide a paper and pencil or a white board and marker
How would you communicate with a deaf client?
ASL or video chat with an interpotour
How would you communicate with a patient with Alzheimers disease?
- Gain attention by approaching them from the front and using their name
- smiling to convey friendliness
- maintain eye-to-eye contact
To be an effective teacher, the nurse must first assess
Perrferred learning style Age and Development Levels Capacity to learn Motivation Learning Readiness Learning Needs
What are some things that will affect the clients ability to learn?
The capaticy to learn
- itelectual ability
- illiteracy
- sensory deficts
- cultural dffrences
- shortended attention span, and lack of motivation and readiness require special adaptation
What are microorganisms?
Living plants or animals only visipble through a microscope.
Define Nonpathogens.
Harmless/ beneficial
What are pathogens?
Cause an illness
Diease that can be transmitted to other people is a ?
Communicable Disease
AKA Contagious Disease and Community- aquired infection
Define Virulence
The extent of dangerousness of pathogens
How dangerous they are
Define Bacteria
Single celled microorganisms
Define Viruses
Smallest microorganism known to cause infectious diseases *can only be seen on an elctron microscope
Define Fungi
yeasts and molds
Define Rickettsia
Its like bacteria but it needs a living species to live.
Define Protozoans
Single celled animals classified according on their ablitiy to move
Define Mycoplasmas
Lack of a cell wall come in various shapes
Define Helminthes
Infectious worms
Define Prions
Protein containing no nucleic acid
What os Antibiotic Drug Resistance?
When germs develop the ablity to defeat the drugs designed to kill them. like MRSA
What do microorganisms need to survive?
Warmth, Darkness,Moist,Oxygen, Nourishment
What is a spore?
Tempararily inactive microbal life form that cant resist heat and destructive chemicals and they can survive without moisture
