WEEK 3

Question 1

CLINICAL THINKING

Answer 1

Assessing, diagnosing, planning, implementing, evaluating

Question 2

NON VERBAL/VERBAL COMMUNICATION:

Answer 2

Non verbal:
When a patient cant communicate from talking or making a noise. They communicate from hand gestures, facial expressions, body language.

Question 3

PRIMARY AND SECONDARY ASSESSMENT DATA:

Answer 3

Primary:
The patient

Secondary:
The patient’s chart, family, or other healthcare workers

Question 4

SUBJECTIVE OBJECTIVE:

Answer 4

Subjective:
- apparent only to the person that has been affected.
- symptoms descried by the patient includes feeling, beliefs, stress
- example: “i have a pain in my lower stomach”

Objective:
- detectable by an observer, can be measured or tested against a standard.
- sighns- seen, felt, smelled, heard, measured.
- example: pulse and blood pressure evaluated compared to baseline data.

Question 5

Medical terminology (roots, prefixes, suffixes)

Answer 5

a or an= alone, none, without
pnoae= breath, breathe, breathing
tachy= fast, rapid, swift
cardia= heart
hypo= under, beneath, below
y= procedure
brady= slow
itis= inflammation
hyper= increased, high, raised