Sleep
This hormone secreted by the pineal gland in the brain regulates the sleep-wake cycle.
What is melatonin?
This type of approach to nursing empowers clients to employ therapeutic techniques to relieve pain and promote health and include techniques like deep breathing and relaxation.
What is holistic?
This stage is the 3rd stage in Kubler-Ross Stages of grief.
What is bargaining?
Your patient has HTN, diaphoresis, grimacing, guarding, tachycardia, dilated pupils, and increased RR. They are experiencing signs of ___ pain.
What is acute?
Decreased circulation, collagen, and muscle mass are risk factors for what type of skin abnormality?
When you sleep, your body removes ___ in the brain and increases your ability to concentrate, as well as transferring short-term memory to long-term.
What are toxins?
This type of integrative health therapy focuses on connections between the mind and body to improve physical health, such as relaxation, meditation, biofeedback, and hypnosis.
What is mind-body?
During grief, the age group in this developmental stage may depend more on friends for emotional support.
What are adolescents?
This type of therapy is used to reduce swelling in postop patients or after an orthopedic injury.
What is cold?
This phase is the first phase in healing. It is the inflammatory or hemostatic phase where blood vessels constrict and clotting factors are activated.
What is inflammation?
Decreased energy and depression, as well as a morning headache, are signs of what sleep disorder?
What is obstructive sleep apnea?
When complementary therapies and conventional medicine are combined to treat illness it is known as ___ health.
What is integrative?
This stage is the 2nd stage in Kubler-Ross stages of grief.
What is anger?
This age group frequency underreports pain.
What are older patients?
In this type of healing, the incision/wound is open with granulation tissue at the bottom of the wound bed; it is a clean laceration closed by sutures or skin adhesives.
What is primary intention?
This hormone is secreted during the day and promotes wakefulnses.
What is cortisol?
This type of therapy can treat musculoskeletal disorders, but can also cause nerve injury, blood clots, and bone fractures in older adults.
What is massage therapy?
This type of grief occurs when it persists for greater than 1 year and the person is unable to accept the death of their loved one.
What is prolonged?
You should teach patients to keep these types of meds in their original packaging to avoid the risk of mixing up meds and causing injury.
What are opioids?
What is wound irrigation?
Teaching for this disorder advises patient to limit naps to no more 30 minutes, exercise regularly (but stop at least 2 hours before bed), go to bed when tired, and remove the TV from the bedroom.
What is insomnia?
This treatment is part of chiropractic medicine for back pain.
What is spinal manipulation?
This faith often requests the body of the deceased to be buried as soon as possible, within 24 hours.
What is Jewish?
When teaching an older patient about pain medication, you should recommend they keep a _____ to determine if treatment is effective.
What is a pain diary?
This type of dressing should be used to cover superficial wounds that have minimal exudate.
What is film?