Holistic Care
All nursing practice that has healing the whole person as its goal.
What is Holistic Care?
Visual, Auditory, Verbal, and Written
What are learning styles?
The observed outcome of critical thinking and decision-making.
What is clinical judgment?
Step in the clinical judgment model that includes filtering information from different sources to collect subjective and objective data.
What are recognizing cues?
Framework illustrated by a pyramid that starts with biologic and physiological needs at the base and rises to self actualization at the top.
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
The patterns of behavior and thinking that people living in social groups learn, develop, and share.
What is Culture?
Level of prevention that includes preventing disease or injury before it ever occurs.
What is primary prevention?
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Airway, Breathing, Circulation, Disability, Exposure
Least Restrictive / Least Invasive
Acute vs Chronic
What are priority setting frameworks?
Prioritization framework where acute conditions are prioritized over chronic conditions.
What is acute vs chronic prioritization framework?
Term used to describe favoring a group or individual over another.
What is bias?
Socioeconomic conditions, including public safety and the availability of resources in a community.
What are the social determinants of health?
Fear, anxiety, depression, physical discomfort, fatigue, environment, sensory deficits.
What are barriers to learning?
Steps included are: Recognizing cues, analyzing cues, generating hypotheses, generating solutions, take actions, and evaluate outcomes.
What is the clinical judgment model?
Priority setting framework that includes recognizing and stabilizing the client's most critical issues first, then moving to the next vital system that includes starting with the airway.
What is the ABC framework?
Assessment, Diagnosis/Analysis, Planning, Implementation, Evaluation.
What is the nursing process?
Age at which the infant sits alone steadily without support.
What is 6-8 months of age?
Religion that will refuse most blood products.
What is Jehovah's Witness?
This tool is commonly used to organize tasks and responsibilities, often in a to-do list format, to improve time efficiency.
What is a time management planner or task list?
Step in the clinical judgment model that includes linking or clustering information by considering pathophysiology and disease process, client needs, and potential complications.
What are analyzing cues?
Age at which the client's vocabulary grows exponentially, especially when spoken and read to. Is it 0-12 months, 1-3 years, 4-5 years, 6-8 years?
What is 1-3 years of age?
This milestone age involves the ability to grasp a small object between the thumb and forefinger.
What is 8-10 months?
Immunizations at this age include: Tdap, MMR, pneumococcal, HPV, and Hep B, and annual influenza vaccines. Is it infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, or adolescence?
What is adolescence?
Who do you see first:
Patient A: A 70-year-old female with a history of heart failure who is complaining of shortness of breath, with a respiratory rate of 22 breaths per minute and oxygen saturation of 90%.
Patient B: A 45-year-old male with diabetes who has a blood glucose level of 300 mg/dL but is otherwise alert and oriented.
Patient C: A 60-year-old female with pneumonia, now afebrile and stable but asking for a bath.
Who is Patient A?
Who do you see first?
Patient A: A 4-year-old child post tonsillectomy who is awake, with mild throat pain (pain score 4/10), and drinking water.
Patient B: A 2-year-old with a high fever (102°F) and lethargy but alert to voice.
Patient C: A 5-year-old with a history of asthma, now wheezing and having difficulty breathing despite using an inhaler.
Who is Patient C?
Who do you see first?
Patient A: A 50-year-old female with hypertension who is complaining of a headache and dizziness. Her BP is 160/98 mmHg.
Patient B: A 45-year-old male who has been on IV antibiotics for a suspected urinary tract infection and is now complaining of itching and hives.
Patient C: A 60-year-old male with a history of gout, now complaining of severe pain in his right knee, which is swollen and red.
Who is Patient B?