Infant
Birth -1 year
Birth -1 year
Safe position of crib rails
What is up?
Before starting care, this should be done in the child's terminology
What is explain the procedure?
Should be involved in teaching
What are patient and family?
Always provide for this during procedures and teaching
What is privacy?
An adult can assimilate this readily
What is information?
This age group processes information at this place
What is slower?
Should be involved in teaching
What is parent/guardian?
Leading cause of death in this group
What is injury?
This age group is better able to localize this
What is pain?
This age group is concerned with this
What is self-image, appearance, approval of friends?
What is career?
Safe position of side rails
What is up?
Keep these out of reach
What are harmful objects?
These skills are improving
What are motor skills?
This happens to someone else, not this age group.
What is death?
Adolescents are influenced by this
What is peer pressure?
Involve this age group in this whenever possible
What is decision-making?
These decline with age
What are physical and mental abilities?
Reflected by facial grimacing, crying, body movement
What is pain?
Toddlers are terrified of this type of environment
What is medical?
This age group may do with this their thoughts and feelings
What is hide them?
When giving care to this age group, allow this whenever possible
What is control/choice?
Older adults may develop these types of health problems
What are chronic?
This often signals illness or a medication problem
What is confusion?
Status of immune system of this age group
What is immature?
Common fears of this age group (3)
What are separation from parents, loss of control, pain?
Common fears of this age group
What are separation from friends, loss of control, privacy issues, and physical disability?
What an adolescent is physically able to do
What is reproduce?
Allow this age group time to discuss these
What are frustrations, fear, and concerns about illness?
This age group is concerned with these issues
What is end-of-life and personal loss?