Communication
This communication technique involves gently guiding a patient back to the topic at hand when they become distracted or go off-topic during a conversation.
What is refocusing?
Nurses often use this method, where patients show they can correctly perform a skill after being taught, to evaluate the effectiveness of teaching.
What is a return demonstration?
According to Piaget’s stages of cognitive development, this term describes when a child understands that objects continue to exist even when they are out of sight.
What is object permanence?
Nurses can collaborate with physical therapy to educate aging patients on this type of training to improve balance and help prevent falls.
What is resistance training?
This nursing intervention helps prevent pooling of blood, which might discolor the face, when performing postmortem care.
What is raising the head of the bed?
Good communication requires focusing on what is being said, which is known as this.
What is active listening?
These are situations during routine care—like medication administration, dressing changes, when a patient asks questions or vital sign checks—where student nurses can educate patients and reinforce learning in real time.
What are opportunities for teaching moments?
This common age-related vision change makes it difficult for adults to focus on objects up close, often requiring reading glasses.
What is presbyopia?
This barrier to cultural congruence is unintentional and occurs automatically. It can affect judgement, decisions, and behaviors.
What is implicit bias?
A distinct nursing practice area and a philosophy of care for the dying and their families.
What is hopice care?
Using these types of questions is a more efficient type of communication during an assessment interview.
What are closed-ended questions?
Attain health equity, eliminate health disparities, create social and physical environments that promote good health, promote healthy development and healthy behaviors across all life stages are all goals of this program of the US Department of Health and Human Services.
What is Healthy People 2030?
Activities such as reading, puzzles, social engagement, physical exercise, and learning new skills help maintain mental sharpness and slow cognitive decline in older adults.
What are ways to promote cognitive health in older adults?
With this religion, followers avoid foods such as pork and alcohol, and may request meals prepared according to these religious dietary laws.
What is Muslim?
This medication is often given to effectively treat respiratory distress and dyspnea in patients that are actively dying.
What is morphine sulfate.
This type of relationship differs from a nurse-patient (therapeutic) relationship in that it is established for mutual enjoyment, with considerable sharing of experiences, life events, and thoughts.
What is a social relationship?
This learning style involves learning best through hands-on activities, practice, and doing rather than just listening or reading.
What is a kinesthetic learning style?
According to Erikson’s psychosocial stages, young adults face this conflict, where success leads to forming close relationships and failure may result in loneliness and emotional isolation.
What is intimacy versus isolation?
With this type of family structure men are assigned the role of primary earner of money for the household.
What is patriarchal family structure?
This legal document allows a designated person to make healthcare decisions for a patient if they become unable to do so themselves.
What is a durable power of attorney for health care?
Changing the subject, offering false reassurance, giving advice, using defensive comments, asking prying questions, using clichés, and listening inattentively are all examples of this effect on communication.
What are the blocks to effective communication?
When teaching a child about their illness or a procedure, student nurses should use age-appropriate language, visual aids, and interactive methods to ensure understanding and reduce fear.
What is teaching a child using age-appropriate methods?
According to Erikson, middle-aged adults face this stage, where success involves contributing to society and helping the next generation, while failure leads to self-absorption and stagnation.
What is generativity versus stagnation?
This involves understanding that health is expressed differently across cultures and that culture influences an individual's response to health, illness, disease, and death.
What is cultural awareness?
Deaths that occur under suspicious circcumstances including deaths that result from injury, accident, murder, or suicide. Any death within 24 hours after admission to the hopital or during surgery or death of a person who has not been underd a physician's care.
What are situations in which an autopsy must be performed to investigate a death?