Sensory Perception/Cognition
Utilizing this approach with a dementia patient may reduce the risk of wandering at night.
What is toileting the patient on a regular schedule?
This action taken by the nurse in a patient wearing a splint or in traction could reduce the risk of skin breakdown in the patient.
What is pad the splint or traction device?
Preventing excessive exercise and other undesirable behaviors can promote weight gain through behavior modification in a patient with this condition.
What is anorexia nervosa?
This expected age-related change in an older adult can cause decreased mobility and strength and increase the patient's risk for falls.
What is joint stiffness?
Author of "A Christmas Carol"
Who was Charles Dickens?
This therapeutic form of communication shows respect for the patient's reality and redirects the patient by encouraging them to talk about their feelings.
What is validation?
A full-thickness skin loss with a crater describes this pressure ulcer stage.
What is a stage 3 pressure ulcer?
An open-ended empathetic statement that encourages the patient to talk is a form of this.
What is therapeutic communication?
This is one method of bringing care, health education, and resources to reduce barriers to health care access in communities with poor access to care.
What is provide screenings and health education?
Author of "The Brothers Karamazov".
Who was Fyodor Dostoevsky?
Communicating calmly and offering a distraction may help to calm agitation in a patient with this condition.
What is Alzheimer's disease?
Reducing skin exposure to moisture and floating heels are examples of interventions to help reduce the risk of this condition.
What is skin breakdown?
Determining this factor in a patient experiencing substance withdrawal is the highest priority for patient safety.
What is determine the patient's level of orientation?
Storytelling, music, tobacco, and smudging to promote healing energy are part of this culture's alternative medicine tradition.
What is Native American medicine?
This social determinant of health encompasses employment.
What is economic stability?
A patient having no memory of the recent visit of a family member might indicated this condition.
What is delirium?
A high protein and high calorie diet may help to prevent this condition in an at-risk patient.
What is skin breakdown?
Assessing previous depression diagnosis, current economic stability, and means of harm, are all part of determining risk factors for this.
What is suicide?
Priority nursing action for a patient exhibiting manic behavior.
What is injury prevention?
Responding to a patient's feelings begins the process of exploring how to deal with them more effectively. This is known as.
What is clarifying feelings?
Command hallucinations manifest through this form of hallucination.
What are auditory hallucinations?
This is how often a patient on bed rest with pressure ulcers should be repositioned.
What is every 2 hours?
The nurse may use pictures and gestures to reinforce instructions and promote understanding in a patient that does not do this.
What is speak the same language?
Showing caring by the nurse and collaborating with the patient to perform ADL's and other tasks is one appropriate intervention for a patient with this condition.
What is depression?
Weight gain, seizures, and a decreased WBC count are all adverse effects of this medication.
What is clozapine?
These hallucinations pose the greatest safety risk to the patient and others.
What are command hallucinations?
This supplement is essential for wound healing as is aids in forming new capillaries, synthesis of new tissue, and collagen development.
What is Vitamin C?
Assessing substance use, age greater than 45, and previous mental health diagnosis are all part of assessing risk factors for this.
What is suicide?
A patient in an acute manic state is unable to control this type of behavior and mat exhibit hostile, irritable and paranoid outbursts.
What is impulsive behavior?
This form of nontherapeutic communication is inappropriate because it challenges the patient's statements.
What is being argumentative?
An acute organic mental disorder characterized by an abrupt onset of symptoms over hours to days.
What is delirium?
A patient manifesting a hard red inflamed vein may be experiencing this condition.
What is phlebitis?
A state of hypervigilance due to constant anxiety is a common finding in patents with this condition.
What is PTSD?
Irritability, low energy, and isolation are all potential indicators of this condition.
What is depression?
Gross motor and physical activity provide an opportunity for a patient in this state to expend excess energy. Walking with a nurse also allows for the activity to be safe and controlled.
What is a manic state?
An Alzheimer's patient may use this coping mechanism to fill in memory gaps with untrue information to protect their self-esteem.
What is confabulation?
An elevation in this lab result could be an indicator of infection.
What is the WBC count?
A patient with a low-income level might not have medical insurance of the ability to afford their medications or treatments might be exhibiting this risk factor.
What is socioeconomic?
Patients taking this medication might expect to wait this long before they notice any effects.
What is fluoxetine?
This alteration in speech contains fictitious words that have meaning only to the patient.
What are neologisms?
Elevated BP, paranoid delusions, hallucinations, and tremors are expected in a patient with this condition.
What is alcohol withdrawal delirium?
A perceptual alteration in which the patient either feels their entire identity is lost or that parts of their body do not belong to them.
What is depersonalization?
Keeping a daily food diary, monitoring daily weight, staying with the patient during and hour after meals, and offering specific rewards for sustained weight gain are all appropriate for caring for a patient with this condition.
What is anorexia nervosa?
To promote injury reduction from lack of rest in a patient in a manic phase of bipolar disorder, the nurse may promote this.
What are short rest periods throughout the day?
This food is another food that is high in tyramine and should be avoided by patients taking an MAOI.
What are avocados?