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Question 1

What does cerebrovascular accident (CVA) mean?

Answer 1

They have has a stroke.

A stoke is a sudden reduction in cerebral perfusion secondary to the thrombus, embolus or haemorrhage.

Question 2

What does dysphasia mean?

Answer 2

Speech difficulties

Question 3

What does diplopia mean?

Answer 3

Vision disturbances

Question 4

What does hemiplegia mean?

Answer 4

weakness or numbness on one side

Question 5

What does efluva mean?

Answer 5

Smell/ odour

Question 6

What does contemporaneous mean?

Answer 6

document immediately. Relevant/now

Question 7

What does “notes’ mean?

Answer 7

Nursing records or medical records

Question 8

What does ADPIE mean?

Answer 8

Assessment
Diagnosis
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation

It is the nursing process.

Question 9

What does Subjective data mean?

Answer 9

It is the patients perception of themselves

Question 10

What does Objective data mean?

Answer 10

Nurses observations/ examinations/ measurement

Question 11

What does ISOBAR mean?

Answer 11

Identification (identify yourself & patient)
Situation (current clinical status/care status)
Observation (current - how have they changed?)
Background (Summary of past health/ related issues)
Agreed Plan (document agreed intervention)
Read Back (read over your notes)

Question 12

What is oedema?

Answer 12

Excessive accumulation of fluid in the body tissues

Question 13

What does hypoxaemia mean?

Answer 13

it is the reduction of oxygen concentration in the arterial blood, recognised clinically by the presence of central or peripheral cyanosis.