Data you as the nurse gather from the patient during health history interview - what the patient tells you
What is Subjective Data?
100
The specific and distinct knowledge, beliefs, skills, and customs acquired by members of a society
What is Culture?
100
This may impede the nurse's observation of the patient's non-verbal behaviors during an interview
What is Note taking?
100
Patient states he has been having "nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea" for 3 days. This would be noted as the
What is Reason for seeking care?
100
These are the components of the Mental Status Examination
What is ABCT - Appearance, Behavior, Cognitive, and Thought Processes/Perceptions
200
Assessment data you "observ" as a nurse
What is Objective Data?
200
A patient that is Hispanic heritage consistent may call on this person for healing.
What is a curandero, spritualist, or priest
200
This type of communication question asks for narrative information - begins an interview, introduces new information. It is unbiased and leaves the person free to answer in any way. It builds and enhances rapport.
What is an open ended question?
200
Assessment that determines how a patient is managing day to day activities
What is a Functional Assessment?
200
This plan reveals a patient will kill himself tomorrow and will use a gun
What is a Suicide Plan?
300
Emphasizes the use of the best evidence with the clinicians experience
What is Evidence Based Practice?
300
Personal effort made to find purpose and meaning in life
What is Spirituality?
300
"Don't worry Mr. Jones. I'm sure you will be just fine" would be providing what to Mr. Jones?
What is False reassurance?
300
Measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, pertussis (whooping cough, strep throat, frequent ear infections are considered to be what in a health history?
What are Childhood illnesses?
300
This thought process abnormality is an incoherent mixture of words phrases and sentences such as: car, sleeps for later, eighteen, the dungeon clown
What is a word salad?
400
Shortness of breath would be what level priority.
What is First?
400
Taking on the characteristics of the dominant culture
What is Assimilation?
400
This is something you should maintain with a client during an interview unless the patient's culture avoids it.
Eye contact
400
The patient states "I feel healthy now" or "I am health and active" in response to questioning the patient on this.
What is Present Health?
400
This is a perception abnormality for which there is no external stimuli - such as hearing voices, seeing a ghost
What is a hallucination?
500
This type of Physical Assessment or Data Collection focuses on a limited or short term problem - mainly one problem.
What is a Focused Assessment or Data Base?
500
An Asian patient who is heritage consistant and experiencing cold or "yin" symptoms may be most likely to treat those symptoms with this.
What are hot foods?
500
The most appropriate interpreter to choose for a patient interview
What is a Trained interpreter?
500
This part of the health history encompasses 8 critical characteristics of a patients symptoms