Gordon's Functional Health Patterns
This is the physical assessment component of the health perception health maintenance pattern that the nurse performs by observing the client only.
What is the general survey?
Reduced skin turgor, slowed reflexes and changes to near vision.
What are physical changes associated with aging?
This is used to resolve a conflict without challenging another person's authority.
What is the CUS communication tool?
Myogenic (aging), neurogenic (stroke) and obstructive (cancer).
What are risk categories for dysphagia?
This often uncomfortable experience happens when the nurse knows what the best course of action is for a client but cannot follow through because there are institutional constraints that prevent it.
What is moral distress?
In addition to auscultating bowel sounds when performing an abdominal assessment the nurse can also auscultate for these.
What are vascular sounds?
In these groups, you will often change the sequence of your assessment from a traditional head to toe typically done for adults.
This type of communication style can lead to ineffective communication because it leaves problems unresolved.
Frequent rounding, non-skid shoes and reducing clutter.
What are interventions to prevent falls?
Nursing expertise, patient preferences and best evidence.
What are the components of evidence-based practice?
2nd intercostal space, right sternal border.
What is the location of the aortic site when auscultating heart sounds?
Back and down for children under three.
What is the direction you would pull the pinnae when using an otoscope.
This concept within professional communication is both a process and an outcome.
What is collaboration?
This cause of skin breakdown can occur when patients are not moved in bed using proper techniques.
What is friction and shear?
This may take the form of hostile treatment from a coworker.
What is lateral violence?
The nurse is assessing this when they ask the client to flex their arm against resistance.
What is muscle strength of the bicep?
This additional immunization is part of the standard schedule for healthy adults aged 65 and older.
What is pneumococcal vaccine?
This communication tool can be used to make sure hand-off report contains all the needed information to prevent error.
What is IPASS?
This condition can develop in patients with weak immune systems causing pain and difficulty eating.
What is stomatitis?
This ethical principle forms the basis of the need for informed consent.
What is autonomy?
Wheezes, crackles, rhonchi and stridor.
What are adventitious or abnormal lung sounds?
This will often focus more on functional ability rather than the presence of disease or illness.
What is health perception of the older adult?
If you cannot do this effectively, you cannot practice safely.
What is communicate?
Orthostatic hypotension, DVT and reduced activity tolerance.
What are cardiovascular complications of immobility?
This ethical principle often becomes an issue in US healthcare because resources can be hard to access.
What is justice?