Caring/HIPAA
Adhering to dress codes, maintaining calm demeanor, refraining from inappropriate media use, and demonstrating a strong work ethic.
What is professionalism?
Made up of the bones and joints of the skeletal system and the muscles, ligaments, tendons, and cartilage of the muscular system.
What is the musculoskeletal system?
A goal-directed activity that results in improved learning for the learner.
What is teaching?
Heart Rate x Stroke Volume =
What is cardiac output?
Pain that lasts only through the expected recovery period. Has a sudden onset related to injury, surgery, or illness.
What is acute pain?
Maintaining a positive attitude, demonstrating compassion and cultural awareness of the needs of the patient.
What are caring interventions?
A concave curvature of the spine.
What is lordosis?
A desire or requirement to know something that is currently unknown to the learner.
What is a learning need?
The medical term for difficulty breathing.
What is dyspnea?
Characterized by an individual experiencing excessive daytime sleepiness even with adequate nighttime sleep, resulting in cataplexy (sudden loss of muscle tone).
What is narcolepsy?
Adhering to a strict moral or ethical code.
What is integrity?
The ability to walk from place to place independently with or without an assistive device.
What is ambulation?
Providing positive reinforcement through praise and encouragement is fundamental to this learning theory.
What is the behaviorist theory?
These risk factors increase an individual's risk of developing alterations in perfusion but can be changed through health promotion.
What are modifiable risk factors?
Lasts longer than 6 months and persists beyond the expected healing period.
What is chronic pain?
Safety, patient centeredness, clinical judgement, professionalism, health promotion, and Leadership.
What are the core concepts of nursing?
A convex curvature of the spine.
What is kyphosis?
The process of acquiring new skills or altering old behaviors by watching people. This learning theory suggests that an individual's beliefs and perceptions influence the way in which they interact with the environment.
What is the social learning theory?
Distention of the blood vessels in the neck.
What is JVD (jugular vein distention)?
Priority nursing assessment when administering narcotic medications.
What is a respiratory assessment?
A guide for nurses to practice with compassion, respect, and integrity. Outlines the nurse's primary commitment to the patient and their role in promoting and protecting patient rights, health and safety. Reflects the ethical obligations of the nursing profession.
What is the ANA Code of Ethics?
Pain, Pulses, Pallor, Paresthesia, Paralysis/Paresis
What is the 5 P's neurological assessment?
Stress level, effects of medication, fatigue, or pain.
What are factors that affect a patient's ability to learn?
Hypertension and hyperlipidemia are risk factors for this serious medical condition.
What is cardiovascular disease?
Often found through religion, or faith healing. Using spirituality as a means of treatment and holistic comfort, allowing for mind-body connection.
What is psychospiritual comfort?