Communication
________________ is key to the nurse-patient relationship.
What is communication?
How an individual thinks others see them.
What is social self?
What is the term that includes the patient's health, spiritual, and cultural belief systems?
What is holism?
Excessive daytime sleepiness and snoring/snorting while sleeping may be a sign of?
What is obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)
What is the third stage of GAS?
What is exhaustion or extinction?
Effective communication reduces the risk of errors, improves patient outcomes and _______________?
What is increases patient satisfaction?
This view sees illness as divine punishment and inevitable.
What is a fatalistic view?
What is feelings of self-worth characterized by feelings of achievement, adequacy, self-confidence, and usefulness?
What is self-esteem?
Multiple episodes of sudden sleeping spells often during the day associated with cataplexy are a sign of?
What is narcolepsy?
What happens to the peripheral circulation during the first stage of GAS?
What is vasoconstriction to shunt blood to the center of the body (vital organs).
This type of question facilitates expression of feelings.
What is an open-ended question?
Native Americans often use a medicine man or woman called a ___________
What is a shaman?
What is Erikson's developmental stage of an adolescent?
What is identity versus role confusion?
Which phases of sleep are often shortened/absent in the elderly patient?
What are phases 4 and 5.
What does stress do to immunity?
What is depresses the immune response (decreases).
Which step of the nursing process involves interviewing and history taking?
What is the assessment step?
Wearing traditional dress and eating traditional food indicates what?
What is cultural embeddedness?
Components of self-concept include: body image, identity and what?
What is role perfromance?
Drinking alcohol before bed reduces what part of sleep?
What is REM sleep.
What is secondary appraisal regarding stress?
What is evaluating one’s possible coping mechanisms/strategies/resources when confronted with a stressor.
Factors influencing communication include: the psychophysiological context, the relational context, the situational context, the environmental context and...
What is the cultural context?
Cultural awareness, knowledge, skill and encounters indicate what?
What is cultural competence?
What is the term for unclear role expectations?
What is role ambiguity?
What are sleep-walking, night terrors and bruxism called?
What are parasomnias?
Directly facing & handling the problem is an example of what type of coping?
What is problem focused coping?