Types of Learning
Occurs when an individual gains information to further develop his or her intellectual abilities, mental capacities, understanding, and thinking processes.
Cognitive Learning
Where critical thinking and data collection occurs.
Assessment
The time between the entrance of pathogen to the first appearance of symptoms.
Incubation Period
Private room, gown, gloves. (MRSA, VRE)
Contact Precautions
Making up for a deficiency in one aspect of self-image by strongly emphasizing a feature considered an asset.
Compensation
Deals with the expression of feelings and emotions and the development of values, attitudes, and beliefs.
Affective Learning
Formulation of a nursing diagnosis.
Diagnosis
The onset of non-specific symptoms to specific symptoms.
Prodromal Period
Private room, surgical mask, eye protection, gown, gloves. (Influenza, Strep, Pertussis, Mumps)
Droplet Precautions
Unconsciously repressing an anxiety-producing emotional conflict and transforming it into non-organic symptoms.
Conversion
Involves the development of manual or physical skills, such as learning how to walk or how to type on a computer.
Psychomotor Learning
Where goals and outcomes are formulated
Planning
The time when the patient has signs and symptoms specific to a type of infection.
Illness
Private room, negative-pressure airflow room, n95, gown, gloves, eye protection. (Measles, chickenpox, TB, COVID)
Airborne Precautions
Avoiding emotional conflicts by refusing to consciously acknowledge anything that causes intolerable emotional pain.
A learning style that takes place by the students carrying out physical activities rather than listening to a lecture or watching return demonstration.
Kinesthetic Learning
Carrying out nursing interventions based on the plan of care.
Implementation
The time when acute symptoms disappear.
Convalescence
Transferring emotions, ideas, or wishes from a stressful situation to a less-anxiety-producing substitute.
Displacement
Evaluating if the desired outcome has been met.
Evaluation
Patterning behavior after that of another person and assuming that person’s qualities, characteristics + actions.
Identification
Experiencing a subjective sense of numbing and a reduced awareness of one’s surroundings.
Dissociation
Coping with a stressor through actions and behaviors associated with an earlier developmental period.
Regression