Nutrition
Carbohydrates, proteins, and fats
What are macronutrients?
A yearly stool sample searching for blood
What is a fecal occult blood test?
color of skin, temperature, skin turgor, and moisture
What are the components of skin assessment?
Affects consciousness, arousal, awareness, memory, affect, judgment, awareness of reality, and language.
What is sensory input?
A cycle of binge eating followed by purging (vomiting, using diuretics or laxatives, exercising excessively, fasting)
What is Bulimia nervosa
What is overweight?
Frequent use of laxatives, inadequate fluid intake, and a sedentary lifestyle
What are causes of constipation?
Arise from healthy skin tissue
What are primary lesions?
Minimize overall stimuli
What is sensory overload?
Age, Diet, Fluid Intake, Physical Activity, Psychosocial factors, Personal Habits, Positioning, Pain, Pregnancy, Surgery and Anesthesia, and Medications
What are factors Affecting bowel elimination
The body breaks down food into simple substances that can be used as nutrients or excreted as waste
What is digestion?
Loss of urine from abdominal pressure without bladder contraction with laughing, sneezing, or lifting
What is stress incontinence?
A= asymmetry of shape, B=border, C= color of variation within 1 lesion, D= diameter> 6mm, E= Evolving or change in color, shape, size
What is the ABCDE system to detect possible skin cancer?
The degree of detail clients can perceive in an image
What is visual acuity?
An accumulation of fluid in the tissues most often from direct trauma or impaired venous return.
What is Edema
Vitamins and minerals are consumed in small amounts and are required for growth, development, and body function
What are micronutrients?
Achieving full bladder control
What is 4-5 years of age?
Stand with feet together, arms at sides, and eyes closed (expected finding: minimal swaying for 5 sec.).
What is Romberg test?
Age-related loss of the eye’s ability to focus on close objects due to decreased elasticity of the lens
What is presbyopia?
An alteration in the inner ear, auditory nerve, or hearing center of the brain.
What is sensorineural hearing loss?
The amount of carbs counted toward consumption after taking away the amount of fiber and sugar alcohols in a food
What are net carbs?
Metabolic acidosis from excessive loss of bicarbonate
What are fluid and electrolyte disturbances?
Inflammatory stage, proliferative stage, maturation/remodeling stage, healing process (3 stages).
What are the stages of wound healing?
Snellen and Rosenbaum eye charts
What are visual acuity tests?
Allows visualization of the external auditory canal, the tympanic membrane, and malleus bone visible through the TM
What is an otoscope?