Wake Me When It's Over
Along with the Reticular Activating System (RAS), this major sleep center controls REM sleep and wakefulness.
What is the Hypothalamus?
Transduction, Transmission, Perception, and Modulation are the four physiological processes of the nervous systems ability to detect pain, also known as this.
What is Nociception?
This type of loss occurs as a result of necessary or normal changes across the lifespan.
What is maturational loss?
Decreased peristalsis, reduced activity levels due to mobility issues, and dietary changes due to dry mouth from medications and a decrease in saliva are all contributing factors to this common problem faced by older adults.
What is constipation?
The majority of patient education is done in this phase of perioperative nursing?
What is pre-op?
Two processes help to regulate sleep/wake cycles, Homeostatic process (Process S) and this, known as Process C.
What are Circadian Rhythms?
Nociceptive pain occurs with Somatic or Visceral pain while pain of somatosensory nervous system is this type of pain.
What is Neuropathic pain?
The loss of a loved one by overdose or suicide is often accompanied by this type of grief.
What is disenfranchised grief?
Helping older adults transition from the inpatient setting to home care involves early discharge teaching and an understanding of this aspect of the patients life prior to hospitalization.
What is routine/baseline ADLs/IADLs or activity?
While an emergent surgical procedure is done immediately to save a patient's life of major body function, this type of procedure is considered non-essential.
What is elective?
The average adult completes 4-5 sleep cycles per night with each one lasting this long.
What is 90 minutes?
The PQRSTU Acronym is a useful assessment tool for pain. The P is for provocative factors while the R is for Region and U is for this.
U= Understanding- Patient's perception of pain and its effect: "how does the pain impact your daily life"
What is grief?
What is urinary and bowel?
Surgery activates the endocrine system causing increased risk to those who are very old or very young, smokers, and those who suffer from this common, chronic disease.
Who are diabetics?
Impaired Sleep, Sleep Deprivation, Impaired Alertness, Fatigue, and Adequate Sleep are all examples of these tools used in nursing care plans.
What are Nursing Diagnoses?
ABCDE of pain assessment reminds nurses to Ask, Believe, Control, Deliver, and this.
What is Empower?
Care that is focused on the management of pain and other symptoms, not curative treatment, with a goal of quality of life over quantity is this kind of care.
What is hospice?
Lying down while defecating causes complications while this position is the most effective for stool passage.
What is squatting?
Patients in this age group have an increased risk of post-op atelectasis due to reduced muscle strength including respiratory muscles and reduced movement of the diaphragm.
Who are older/elderly adults?
100 point bonus: What simple device can be used to prevent atelectasis?
This is the most common type of sleep disorder and is characterized by the inability to fall asleep, to remain asleep during the night, or to go back to sleep after waking up earlier than desired.
What is insomnia?
CNS toxicity, pupil constriction, bradypnea, nausea, hypotension, and bradycardia are potential side effects of this class of analgesics.
What are opioids?
This term refers to the time of sadness after a person experiences a significant loss through death.
What is bereavement?
A client with a stoma on the LLQ with semi-formed stool and intermittent output has which type of bowel diversion?
What is a Colostomy?
Patients with this type of disease (organ/system) are at increased risk post-operatively for impaired excretion of drugs including anesthetics.
What is renal?