Nursing process
Created by NANDA
What is a Nursing Diagnosis
The subjective and objective observations of how the patient is dressed, if their hygiene needs are met, and what are their actions or reactions to personnel.
What is Appearance?
People's thoughts and emotions often affect the way their bodies function, even on a cellular level.
What is holism
The action of these drugs are not understood at this time but they have been successful in stabilizing the manic episodes in bipolar disorder.
What are anticonvulsants?
Stress produces this reaction.
What is anxiety?
Planning involves setting these as long term and short term.
What are goals?
An objective assessment that demonstrates to the practitioner how well the patient is cooperating.
What is Behavior?
This is something very important to the effectiveness of any treatment.
What are the patient's beliefs and values.
This medication is not metabolized by the body and it's exact action is unknown. One theory is that this medication and sodium concentration might help regulate and moderate information along nerve cells
What is Lithium?
This is an uncomfortable feeling of dread.
What is Anxiety?
The LPN is often the person who begins to adapt certain procedures to assist the patient.
What are Interventions?
The degree of patient's knowledge of self.
What is Orientation?
A training program that has been designed to develop one's ability to control the autonomic nervous system
What is biofeedback?
This medication helps with side effects of some antipsychotics. It inhibits the action of acetylcholine.
What are Anti-Parkinson Agents
Fight or Flight or the biologic response to stress
What is the release of epinephrine and norepinephrine along with the constriction of blood vessels and elevation of blood pressure?
Putting the care plan into action
What is implementation?
A subjective assessment of what the patient is thinking and the process the patient uses in thinking.
What is Thinking/Content of thought?
One of the oldest methods used to treat illness, provides treatment by both the direct pharmacological effects of aromatic plants but also through the direct effects of some smells on mood and affect.
What is Aromatherapy
Two types of this medication. Their main action is to block the dopamine receptors which when over produced can cause someone to exhibit psychotic behaviors.
What are anit-psychotics
A disorder where there is an abrupt surge of extreme fear or discomfort that cannot be controlled
What is a panic disorder
Collection of data to see if interventions have been successful at achieving short term or long term goal.
What is evaluation
This is a subjective and objective assessment of the patient's stated feelings and emotions.
What is Mood and Affect?
These products are available over the counter but the user must be educated about the side effects and the interactions
What are Herbal and Nutritional therapies.
This medication class works by depressing the activities of the cerebral cortex. This decreases the effects of stress or mild depression.
What are anti-anxiety medications
The most common anxiety disorders. Related to having an "irrational fear".
What is a phobia