communication
Exchange of information using words
What is "Verbal communication"?
A style of leadership called directive or authoritarian, involves the leader assuming control over the decisions and activities of the group.
What is "Autocratic leadership"?
Other styles are: laissez-faire -leader relinquishes power to group, transactional- based on task and reward orientation, and transformational- leader can inspire and motivate charismatic.
The hospital emphasizes using an acronym for fire safety preparedness.
What is "RACE"?
R-rescue anyone in immediate danger.
A-activate the fire code system and notify appropriate person
C-confine the fire by closing doors/windows
E-evacuate patients to safe area
To maintain heath, the body's internal environment must retain in a balance state. Various physiological mechanisms within the body respond to internal changes to maintain relative constancy in the internal environment.
What is "Homeostasis"?
The need to feel good about oneself and to believe that others hold one in high regard.
What is "Self esteem"?
Communication within a person (self-talk).
What is "Intrapersonal communication"?
Crucial because it effects the nurse's behavior and can enhance or detract from positive interactions with client.
Process of transforming or modifying something. Might be planned, unplanned, developmental,or quantum and ever present.
What is "Change"?
A tragic event of great magnitude that requires the response of people outside the involved community.
What is a "Disaster"?
A localized response of the body to stress. It involves only a specific body part (such as a tissue or organ) instead of the whole body.
What is the "Local Adaption Syndrome (LAS)"?
Reflex pain response of the central nervous system.
Inflammatory response to injury or infection.
Describes a person's conscious sense of who he or he is.
What is "Personal Identity"?
When assessing self concept the information needed first is the patient's description of self. Example , the nurse ask what are ten labels that you believe identify yourself.
Study of distance zones between people during communication.
What is "Proxiemics"?
Kurt Lewin (1951) identified three stages of change. One being to recognize the need for change.
What is "Unfreezing"?
Second- Moving, Change is initiated after a careful process of planning. Third-Refreezing, Change becomes operational.
A safety risk for clients age 65 and over and /or with a history of the risk, or with altered senses.
What is a "Fall risk"?
Falls in the elderly can be prevented if they can be predicted. Most facilities have a fall-prevention program.
The General Adaption Syndrome (GAS) is a biochemical model of stress. Describes the body's general response. (Hans Seyle). Three stages in GAS, the first is initiated when a person perceives a specific stressor and various defense mechanisms are activated.
What is the "Alarm Reaction" (fight or flight)?
Second- Stage of Resistance
Third- Stage of Exhaustion
Modifying a negative self concept, one option is using a cognitive-behavioral approach to assist the client in modifying self concept. The general principle is to help the client alter one's perspective of the situation from negative to more positive.
What is "Reframing"?
The ability to communicate with clients and other nurses is essential for effective use of the nursing process.
What is "Therapeutic communication"?
Knowledge of the communication process and effective communication techniques is fundamental to all steps of the nursing process.
Involves the transfer f responsibility for the performance of an activity to another person while retaining accountability for the outcome.
What is "Delegation"?
RN must be fully aware of the parameters for delegation as outlined in the state Nurse Practice Act as well as the health care organization's policies and procedures for delegation.
An accident requires a confidential document which objectively reports the circumstances of the accident.
What is an "incident or safety report"?
Unconscious reactions to stress protect one's self esteem and are useful in mild to moderate anxiety.
What are "Defense Mechanisms"?
Characterized by discrepancy between the ideal and real selves.
What is "Low Self Esteem"?
This nurse patient relationship has three phases: the orientation, the working the termination phase.
What is the "Helping relationship"?
Leaders use this type of power to influence and convince subordinates to trust them and work toward meeting goals.
What is "Expert" power?
Involves the deliberate spread of pathogenic organisms into the community to cause widespread illness, fear, and panic.
What is "Bioterrorism"?
Health care personnel must adhere to the Standard Precautions recommended by CDC.
A stress management technique focusing on psychologically preparing a person for an unfamiliar or painful event.
What is "Anticipatory Guidance"?
The state in which an individual experiences or is at risk for experiencing a disruption in the way that individual perceives one's role performance
What is "Ineffective Role Performance"?
One of four nursing diagnostic labels for specific disturbances in self concept that can be treated by independent nursing interventions.