Culture
The process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas
What is Assimilation?
consists of making healthy choices that reduce the negative effects of stress
What is Adaptive Coping?
one's journey through life
What wound classification must be removed for healing to take place?
What is Black or Eschar?
Blood vessels dilate in the area of injury and prevent tissue trauma.
What is Blanchable Erythema?
a symbol for remembering some of the culture specifics and is usually not negative
What is Cultural Archetype?
when a person cannot cope effectively with the physical and emotional demands of the workplace
What is Burnout?
is actually aggressively planned comfort care, addresses end-of-life care concerns that include supporting families and caregivers, promoting continuity of care, ensuring respect for persons, addressing emotion and spiritual concerns, managing symptoms and ensuring informed decision making
What is Palliative Care?
Term for a bumpy & ridgy wound bed?
Full-thickness skin loss involving subcutaneous tissue
What is Stage III?
Low income patients are less likely to adhere to medical advice
What is Cultural Stereotype?
localized response of a tissue, organ, or system that occurs as a reaction to stress.
What is Local Adaptation Syndrome?
experienced in connection with a loss that is not socially supported or
acknowledged by the usual rites or ceremonies.
What is Disenfranchised Grief?
Production of new tissue and wound contraction
What is Proliferative Phase?
include ways in which people are different genetically and physiologically
occurs when we attempt to change our actions or the patient’s lifestyle.
While still respecting their cultural values and beliefs, you would support and encourage the client to significantly modify their behaviors and to adopt new, different, and beneficial health behaviors.
What is Repatterning or Restructuring?
people who still thrive despite overwhelming stress
What is Hardiness?
spiritual 21 question well being scale; developed and used by nurses especially for clients 65 and older
What is JAREL?
Liquifies necrotic tissue or slough
What is Hydrogel?
Irreversible cessation of circulation and respiratory functions” in addition to the cessation of brain function.
What is Uniform Determination of Death Act (1981)?
Culture is a blend of what?
What is ethnicity, race, and religion?
Three stages of General Adaptation Syndrome
What is Initial Alarm Stage, Resistance (Adaptation), Recovery?
a counseling technique used when grief therapy is indicated. Uses guided
reading of self-help literature or fiction to increase client awareness and understanding and promote healing.
What is Bibliotherapy?
Indicates tissue damage
What is Nonblanchable Hyperemia
cerebral cortex first perceives a stressor and sends out a message to activate
the endocrine and SNS
What is Shock Phase?