Communication
Communication
Nutrients
Nutrition
Miscellaneous
100
Exchanging information
What is communication?
100
Communicating with your friends
What is social communication
100
Units of heat
What is calories?
100
60%
What amount of the human body is composed of water?
100
Study of medication effects in the body
What is pharmacokinetics?
200
12 feet
What is public space?
200
18 inches to 4 feet
What is personal space
200
Essential for tissue repair and healing
What is protein?
200
Calcium
What is the most abundant mineral in the body?
200
Decreased
Aging results in ________________activity of the liver cells.
300
Used to gather information about your patient
What is therapeutic communication
300
Nonverbal
What type of communication does the resident pay most attention to?
300
Carbohydrates
What comprises 50% of the American diet?
300
Bad nutrition. Obesity or anorexia/catechexia, inability to absorb nutrients
What is malnutrition?
300
Taking more medications that is indicated
What is polypharmacy?
400
4-12 feet
What is social space
400
hearing loss, medications, illness
What are barriers to effective communication?
400
25%
What should fat intake be limited to in the American diet?
400
Health, medications, illness, injury, depression, cognition
What factors affect elderly people's nutritional status?
400
Right meds, right resident, right dosage, right form, right route, right time
What are the rights of medication administration?
500
Inability to communicate
What is aphasia
500
Forces your client to speak and elaborate upon answers
What is open ended questioning?
500
Water
What is essential for life?
500
Calcium
What is the most abundant mineral in the body?
500
True
Noncompliance with medications is common with older adults true or false?
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