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| Statement that indicates the patient’s actual health status or the risk of a problem developing, the causative or related factors, and specific defining characteristics |
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| Nursing actions taken to improve, maintain, or restore health or prevent illness |
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| A biologic way of categorizing people based on physical characteristics, such as skin color and texture, facial characteristics, and body proportions |
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Assessment – complete inspection of all skin areas.
Nursing diagnosis – impaired skin integrity, risk of infection, acute pain, activity intolerance, disturbed body image, anxiety, etc
Planning – include time for wound assessment and care in planning the work load. Consideration of whether dressings may become damp from bathing dictates whether wound care is provided before or after a bath.
Implementation – The nurse must use the principles of asepsis. |
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| Interventions with an agitated patient |
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| Listen and use good therapeutic communication skills to allow the patient to express his fears, feelings, and needs ant to covey nonjudgmental acceptance. |
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| Disorder in which the focus is on remaining thin, causing restrictions of food intake to the point of danger |
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| A mechanical device that prevents a person from getting out of a room, bed, or chair9no longer called a restraint); or drugs such as sedatives or tranquilizers used to sedate the patient so that he or she is unable to move about |
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| The goals attempt to provide evidence and expert based solution to areas that have caused problems with patient safety. |
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| Arranged by elevating the head of the bed 60 to 90 degrees |
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| Positions of patients with certain exams |
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Dorsal recumbent position
Lithotomy position
Knee-chest position |
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Should be performed either actively or passively several times a day.
Passive ROM exercises are performed on patients who cannot actively move.
Pg 271 box 18-2 |
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| Preventing health care associated infections |
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Medical Asepsis – is the practice of reducing the number of organisms present or reducing the risk for transmission of organisms
Surgical Asepsis – is the practice of preparing and handling materials in a way that prevents the patient’s exposure to living microorganisms |
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Transition stage
Acceptance stage
Convalescence stage |
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| Rocky mountain spotted fever caused by |
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| caused by the bacterium Rickettsia rickettsia |
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| Listening with great concentration and focused energy |
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| Therapeutic communication |
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| Communication that promotes understanding between the sender and the receiver |
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| Primary/Secondary Illness |
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Primary – Illness that develops without being caused by another health problem
Secondary – Illness that results from or is caused by a primary illness |
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| Common in African americans |
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Primary prevention
Secondary prevention
Tertiary prevention |
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| Arrest of the escape of blood by either natural or artificial means or the interruption of blood flow to a part |
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| World Health Organization definition of health |
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| Not only the absence of infirmity and disease but also a state of physical, mental, and social well being. |
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