Stress, Coping & Anxiety
A condition that develops following a traumatic event characterized by intrusive thoughts, recurrent distress/anxiety, flashback and avoidance.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
An autoimmune disease that produces systemic manifestations such as damage to the integumentary system, kidneys, and joints.
Systemic lupus erythematosus
Deficiencies, excesses or imbalances in a person’s intake of energy and/or nutrients that can result in a person being underweight or overweight.
Malnutrition
Acute kidney injury that is caused by a disruption of blood flow to the kidneys.
Prerenal kidney injury
The number of times that she has given birth to a fetus with a gestational age of 24 weeks or more, regardless of whether the child was born alive or was stillborn.
Parity
The level of anxiety in which the patient experiences terror and effective communication with the patient is not possible.
Panic level
Medications have the potential to cause hearing loss, tinnitus and/or dysequilibrium such as dizziness and vertigo.
Ototoxic medications
An alteration in elimination that can predispose a patient to fluid and electrolyte imbalances, as well as compromised skin integrity.
Diarrhea
A manifestation of severe azotemia where tiny, yellow-white urea crystals deposit on the skin.
Uremic frost
The return of the uterus to its pre-pregnancy size and shape.
A defense mechanism in which a person tries to cancel out or remove an unhealthy, destructive or otherwise threatening thought or action by engaging in contrary behavior
Undoing
The risk factor that has the most impact on the potential for developing macular degeneration.
Aging
An alteration in elimination that can result from damage to the pelvic floor, side effects of medications, severe constipation, and aging.
Urinary incontinence
Risk factors for this alteration of thermoregulation include financial instability, homelessness, cognitive impairment, and advanced age.
Hypothermia
Quickening
The thoughts and behaviors mobilized to manage internal and external stressful situations. May be positive or negative.
Coping mechanisms
A lung infection caused by a fungus, is rare in healthy people, and usually affects those with a weak immune system such as those with HIV.
Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia
The body mass index for a patient weighing 250 lbs, who is 5' 3" tall.
BMI = 44.3
An electrolyte imbalance that is common in advanced kidney disease due to the kidney's inability to remove certain electrolytes from the bloodstream. Symptoms may range from muscle weakness to heart palpitations.
A common STD that can cause infection among both men and women, that can cause permanent damage to a woman’s reproductive system.
Chlamydia
The type of therapy beneficial for PTSD that forces the patient to confront the traumatic event to reduce sensitivity and decrease fear associated with the event.
Exposure therapy
Beta-blocker medications are often prescribed to treat this alteration of sensory perception.
Glaucoma
In older adults, pressure on the bladders, ureters, and urethra caused by this alteration of elimination can lead to complications such as UTIs.
Constipation
An alteration in thermoregulation that if left untreated can result in confusion, agitation, slurred speech, irritability, delirium, seizures, coma, and death.
Heat stroke
Nausea, headache, breast tenderness, weight gain, and spotting between periods or amenorrhea are common side effects of this pregnancy prevention method.
Oral contraceptives