Nutrition
Carbohydrates, Proteins, and Fats
What is Macronutrients?
Maintains the elasticity and contractility of the detrusor muscle
What is Muscle Tone?
Includes the skin, hair, nails, and the sweat, sebaceous, and mammary glands.
What is the Integumentary System?
Awareness and interpretation of stimuli
What is Perception?
Refers to a decreased level of oxygen in the blood
What is Hypoxemia?
Vitamins and Minerals
Term used when the kidneys cease to produce urine
What is Renal Failure?
Facilitate the awareness of touch, pain, pressure, heat, and cold.
What are Nerves?
The ability to perceive environmental stimuli and body reactions and to respond appropriately
RICE therapy has been used universally for years for the initial treatment (within the first 24–72 hours) of soft tissue injuries.
What is Rest, Ice, Compress, Elevate?
60% of an adults body weight
What is Water?
The production of abnormally large amounts of urine by the kidneys
What is Polyuria?
Innate immune response to tissue damage or foreign organisms or particles
What is Inflammation?
Feeling of rotation or imbalance.
Happens when the body loses more fluids than it consumes
What is Dehydration?
Chemical process that enables the body to use the energy extracted from ingested food.
What is Metabolism?
Inability to completely empty the bladder
What is Urinary Retention?
Hard crust covering an open wound consisting of dried plasma proteins and dead cells
What is Eschar?
Loss of central vision due to damage to the retina.
What is Age-related macular degeneration (AMD)?
The phase of ventricular contraction is called
What is Systole?
BMI Calculation
What is dividing the weight (in kilograms or pounds) by the height (in centimeters or inches) squared?
Enlargement of the prostate—may be benign or malignant
What is Prostatic hyperplasia?
Involve the loss of the first two layers of skin.
What is a Partial Thickness Wound
The loss or dysfunction of a sense can sometimes be difficult to diagnose and treat, especially in-
What are Older Adults?
The body’s natural or induced response to infection and its associated conditions.
What is Immunity?