Week 1
This is an organized sequence of problem-solving steps used to indemnify and manage the health problems of clients.
What is the nursing process?
This term refers to the reactivation of a disease/disorder that can occur periodically in clients with long-standing issues.
What is exacerbation?
These are rules of conduct established and enforced by government.
What are laws?
This term refers to sounds that are not actually words.
What is paralanguage?
This is a measure of the warmth at the surface of the skin.
What is shell temperature?
This information provides more details about specific problems and is repeated frequently during subsequent interviews.
What is a focus assessment?
This term refers to a relatively stable state of physiologic equilibrium.
What is homeostasis?
This term, which includes one word of Greek origin, refers to customs or modes of conduct describing ideal behavior for nurses.
What is the nursing code of ethics?
This term refers to the use of space and personal space when dealing with patients.
What is proxemics?
This term refers to the movement of air in and out of a person's chest.
What is ventilation?
This is an evaluation of physical strengths and weaknesses in areas such as ADLs and IADLs, including performance and cognitive abilities, to help develop an individualized plan of care.
What is a functional assessment?
This term refers to the incidence of a specific disease, disorder, or injury among groups such as age, gender, and nationality.
What is morbidity?
This is a litigation in which one person asserts that a physical, emotion or financial injury was a consequence of another person's action or failure to act.
What is a tort?
This term refers to teaching children or those with cognitive abilities comparable to that of children.
What is pedagogy?
This is a condition in which core temperature is excessively high and the temperature exceeds 105.8˚F.
What is hyperthermia?
This term refers to the legal limitations of the usual and customary skills you are licensed to provide.
What is scope of practice?
This term refers to an illness of unknown cause for which treatment focuses on the signs and symptoms.
What is an idiopathic illness?
This term refers to a choice between two undesirable alternatives that typically occurs when individual values and laws conflict.
What is an ethical dilemma?
This term refers to the documentation of only abnormal findings in a patient's chart.
What is charting by exception?
This term refers to a state of diminished breathing.
What is hypoventilation?
This term refers to the sum of all aspects of health that determine how well a person feels.
What is holism?
This term refers to a disorder acquired from the genetic codes of one or both parents for which symptoms may or may not be present at birth.
What is a hereditary condition?
This term, not to be confused with race, refers to a bond or kinship a person feels with their country of birth or place of ancestral origin.
What is ethnicity?
This term refers to unique techniques that enhance learning among older people.
What is geragogy?
This is a sudden but temporary drop in blood pressure when rising from a reclining position.
What is postural or orthostatic hypotension?