NURS 116
What is the definition of pathophysiology?
Study of body's response to dysfunction or disease.
What are the concepts of the nursing metaparadigm?
Concept of Person
Concept of Health
Concept of Environment
Concept of Nursing
What is the definition of health according to WHO?
"A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity" (WHO)
What are the overarching concepts for nursing practice?
Professional Nursing
Health Care Participants
Health and Illness
Health Care Contexts
What are the guiding frameworks for health assessment?
Functional
Head to Toe
Body Systems
What antibody is produced first upon antigen invasion?
IgM
What are the five components of the Canada Health Act?
Public administration
Universality
Accessibility
Comprehensiveness
Portability
What are the parts of the nursing process?
Assessment
Nursing Diagnosis
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
What are the vital signs?
Temperature, Pulse, Respiration & Blood Pressure
What are 10 Attributes of Signs and Symptoms?
Location, Associated Signs and Symptoms, Timing, Environmental or Exposure Factors, Severity/Quantity, Nature/Quality, Aggravating factors, Perspective and Significance to Client
What are the four stages of wound healing?
1. Hemostasis
2. Inflammatory Phase
3. Roliferation Phase
4. Remodelling Phase
What are the 5Cs?
Compassionate
Curious
Commited
Competent
Corresponding
What is the definition of a family (according to Gregory et al.)?
A group of people who feel united and support each other.
What do you have to look for when in the general survey looking at the level of consciousness?
Oriented x3 = Person, place and time
What should you do first if a patient has a sore throat?
SWAB! (To see if it is streptococcus pharyngitis)
State the difference between infection and colonization.
Colonization: The presence and multiplication of a living organism on or within the host.
Infection: The presence and multiplication within a host of another living organism with injury.
What is Cultural Imposition?
Using your own values and beliefs as an absolute guide to interpreting patient behaviors and providing service.
What are the six principles for growth and development?
1. Continuous and uneven
2. Interactions between genetics and environment
3. Head-down and body-outwards
4. Simple to complex and general to specific
5. Sequence is predictable, but timing and duration vary
6. Sensitive periods
List the cranial nerves (name and function).
DOUBLE THE POINTS: A test for each of them!
CN 1 - Olfactory
CN 2 - Optic
CN 3 - Oculomotor
CN 4 - Trochlear
CN 6 - Abducens
CN 5 - Trigeminal
CN 7 - Facial
CN 8 - Vestibulocochlear
CN 9 - Glossopharyngeal
CN 10 - Vagus
CN 11 - Accessory
CN 12 - Hypoglossal
When do the fontanelles close?
Posterior - 2 mo
Anterior - 24 mo
Explain the pharmacokinetics (ADME) of the drug corticosteroid (AKA dexamethasone).
A: oral, IM, IV
D: oral = 51L, 77% protein bound
M: hydroxylated by CYP3A4. t1/2 oral dose = 6h
E: renal
What is pragmatism?
Rejecting the idea of an absolute and certain knowledge.
What is the "sandwich generation"?
Adults, usually in the period of middle age, who simultaneously have responsibility for their own children and aging parents.
What is this image?
(Flat, circumscribed, colour/discoloured, <1 cm)
Macule
What is an expected finding for lymph nodes?
Freely moveable, Less than 1 cm, Not delimited