Week 3 Lecture Flashcards
Glossitis
Inflammation of the tounge
pediculosis capitis
Head lice
Periodontitis
gum infection that damages gums and can destroy the jawbone
_____ uses devices such as weights and pulleys to put tension on a displaced bone or joint, such as a dislocated shoulder. The tension helps put the joint back in position and keep it still.
Traction
______ is a fixed tightening of muscle, tendons, ligaments, or skin. It prevents normal movement of the associated body part.
contracture
Angular cheilitis
Inflammation and cracks in the corner of the mouth
The science of making things fit people.
ergonomics
Tonus
Muscle tone
Tension in a relaxed muscle
Stomatitis
condition that causes painful swelling and sores inside the mouth.
Exercise when a contracting muscle shortens against a constant load
Isotonic
the branch of medicine dealing with the correction of deformities of bones or muscles.
Orthopedics
Paresis
condition of muscular weakness caused by nerve damage or disease
application of this ______ reduces the risk of injury to all involved by minimizing the lifting, pulling, and manual effort required to move patients with mobility issues.
Paitent care ergonomic
Spasticity
Stiff or rigid muscles.
Sential event
An event that leads to sever injury or death of a paitent
Safety Event Report is a confidential paperwork that describes an incident or accident
True or False
True
When a fire occurs in a paitents room, what would be the nurse’s priority?
Rescue paitent
Extinguish the fire
Sound the alarm
Run for help
Rescue the paitent
______ is a symptom in which you drag your toes when you walk due to weakness or paralysis of certain muscles in your foot
Foot drop
or “same speed” — exercise refers to movement at a constant speed regardless of the amount of resistance applied.
Examples.
Walking on a treadmill
Stationary bike
@ a constant speed
Isokinetic
Isometric During isometric exercises, the muscle doesn’t noticeably change length
exercises examples
Wall sits, planks.
how far you can move or stretch a part of your body, such as a joint or a muscle.
Range of motion
_______is a process, not an event.
Process of planning for future medical care in the event that the patient is unable to make his or her own decisions.
Advance care planning
_____ Instruct healthcare providers not to attempt to revive you if your heart stop
AND allow natural death
&
DNR
Difference between MOLST & DNR
MOLST covers a variety of end-of-life treatments. A DNR only gives instructions about CPR.
Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (MOLST)
is a program designed to improve the quality of care patients receive at the end of life by translating patient goals for care and preferences into medical orders
The Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form is a written medical order from a physician, nurse practitioner or physician assistant that.
Specifies the types of medical treatment they want to receive during serious illness.
________ involves gradual decrease of the ventilator settings to the minimum over 10 to 60 minutes, then ventilatory support is discontinued.
Immediate ______ consists of discontinuation of mechanical ventilation without any previous decrease in the ventilator settings.
Terminal weaning / extubation
Aspiration
means to draw in or out using a sucking motion.
Basal metabolism
the rate at which the body uses energy while at rest to maintain vital functions such as breathing and keeping warm.
Dysphagia
Difficulty swallowing
Enteral nutrition
Any method of feeding that uses the gastrointestinal (GI) tract to deliver nutrition and calories.
Normal oral diet, the use of liquid supplements or delivery by use of a tube (tube feeding).
Gastric residual volume
Amount of liquid drained from a stomach following administration of enteral feed;
Consists mainly of infused nutritional formula or water, and secreted GI juice.
Gastrostomy
an opening into the stomach from the abdominal wall, made surgically for the introduction of food.
Nasogastric tubes
Both deliver substances to your stomach and to draw substances out.
Parenteral nutrition (PN)
is intravenous administration of nutrition
percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG)
is a procedure to place a feeding tube. These feeding tubes are often called PEG tubes or G tubes.
Peripheral parenteral nutrition (PPN) ….
Nutrion delivered through a smaller, peripheral vein, perhaps in your neck or in one of your limbs.
Partial parenteral nutrition temporarily, using the quicker and easier access of the peripheral vein
Waist circumference is measured where?
the measurement taken around the abdomen at the level of the umbilicus (belly button)
