Assessment
Exaggerated lateral curvature of the spine.
What is scoliosis?
The brand or proprietary name of a medication assigned by the manufacturer.
What is the trade name?
Type of nursing diagnoses concerning the motivation and desire of an individual, family, group, or community to increase well-being and to actualize human health potential.
What are health promotion nursing diagnoses?
Supporting and defending clients’ health, wellness, safety, wishes, and personal rights.
What is patient/client advocacy?
The posterior fontanel closes by this age.
What is 2 months?
Redness of the skin caused by congestion or dilation of the superficial blood vessels in the skin, signaling circulatory changes to an area.
What is erythema?
This phase of pharmacokinetics is the transportation of medications to sites of action by bodily fluids.
What is distribution?
A concise term or phrase that represents a pattern of related, clustered data that is the first section of every NANDA-I nursing statement.
What is the diagnosis label?
The right to make one’s own personal decisions, even when those decisions might not be in that person’s own best interest.
What is autonomy?
Birth weight is tripled by this age.
What is 12 months?
Patient positioning to prevent movement of a painful body part.
What is guarding?
Number of mcg in 1 mg.
This framework organizes patient data according to basic human needs common to all individuals.
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
The legal process by which a client or the client’s legally appointed designee has given written permission for a treatment and understands the reasons, benefits, risks, and alternative options to the treatment.
What is informed consent?
This age group's stage of psychosocial development, according to Erikson, is industry vs. inferiority.
What are school-age children (ages 6 to 12 years).
Enlargement of the fingertips, softening of the nail bed, and flattening of the nail; angle between the nail plate and the nail often greater than 180 degrees. Caused by chronic hypoxia from heart and/or pulmonary disease.
What is clubbing?
Medication effects that are a result of the muscarinic receptor blockade. Most are seen in eyes, smooth muscle, exocrine glands, and the heart; ex. dry mouth.
What are anticholinergic effects?
Traditionally written as the third section of a NANDA nursing diagnostic statement, they includes cues or clusters of related assessment data that are signs, symptoms, or indications of a problem-focused or health promotion nursing diagnosis.
What are defining characteristics?
Documents to communicate a client’s wishes regarding end-of-life care should the client become unable to do so.
What are advanced directives?
Growth concludes at this age.
What is age 20?
Assessed by observing whether the pupils converge and constrict when focused on an object at close range.
What is accomodation?
These medications block the action of angiotensin II in the body resulting in vasodilation and excretion of sodium and water; do not cause hyperkalemia and have much lower risk of a cough.
What is an angiotensin II receptor blocker (ARB)?
The ultimate level in Maslow's hierarchy; defined as the need to fulfill maximum potential.
What is self-actualization?
Ethical principle defined as the fulfillment of promises.
What is fidelity?
Preschoolers make judgments based on visual appearance, which can lead to this type of misconception - defined as believing inanimate objects are alive.
What is animism?