Ethics
Critical Thinking
Theories of Human Development
Sensory Alterations
Common Abbreviations
100
The fundamental agreement to do no harm.
What is Nonmaleficence
100
This is the part of critical thinking that involves the process of purposefully thinking back and recalling a situation to discover its purpose or meaning.
What is reflection
100
He formed the first formal structured theory of personality development.
What is Sigmund Freud
100
This occurs when problems with sensory reception or perception exist. Patients are not able to receive certain stimuli (eg. light and sound), or stimuli are distorted (e.g blurred vision from cataracts and abnormal taste sensation)
What is a sensory deficit
100
The abbreviation for bathroom privileges
What is BRP
200
A personal belief about the worth for an idea, a custom, or an object.
What is a value
200
The inner sensing or "gut feeling" that something is so.
What is intuition
200
He expanded on Freud's psychoanalytic stages into a psychosocial model that covered the whole life span.
What is Erik Erikson's Eight Stages of Development
200
Thus type of deprivation occurs when inadequate quality or quality of stimuli impairs perception.
What is Sensory Deprivation
200
The abbreviation for pupils equal, round, and reactive to light and accommodation
What is PERRLA
300
The agreement to keep promises. The obligation as a nurse to follow through with the care offered to patients.
What is Fidelity
300
This type of critical thinkers begin to separate themselves from authorities
What is complex critical thinkers
300
He developed the theory of cognitive development, which describes children's intellectual organization and how they think, reason, and perceive the world.
What is Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development
300
This is when a person receives multiple sensory stimuli, the brain has difficulty distinguishing the stimuli, which cause a sensory overload to occur.
What is Sensory Overload
300
The abbreviation for Hemoglobin
What is Hgb
400
This exists when the right thing to do is not clear or when members of the health care team cannot agree on the right thing to do.
What is an Ethical Dilemma
400
At this basic level of thinking a learner trusts that experts have the right answers for every problem
What is Basic Critical Thinking
400
He developed the theory of human needs from his study of individuals with physical or mental illness. An ordering (hierarchy) of needs that motivate human behavior.
What is Maslow's Theory of Human Needs
400
Ringing in the ears
What is Tinnitus
400
The abbreviation for freely as desired
What is ad lib
500
Ethic that proposes that the value of something is determined by its usefulness. The greatest good for the greatest number of people constitutes the guiding principle for action in this model of ethics.
What is Utilitarianism
500
This is a systematic process that incorporates diagnostic reasoning and clinical decision making through 5 steps.
What is the Nursing Process
500
According to this theorist, moral development is one component of psychosocial development. It involves the reasons an individual makes a decision about right and wrong behaviors within a culture.
What is Kohlberg's Moral Developmental Theory
500
This is the term used when medications such as analgesics, antibiotics, or diuretics, affect hearing acuity, balance or both., with the most common symptom being tinnitus.
What is Ototoxic medications.
500
What are the abbreviations for the following: 1. four times a day 2. every hour 3. every night
What is qid, qh, and qn
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