Healthcare/ Managing Care
This tool, often represented as a pyramid, is used by nurses to prioritize patient care by meeting basic physiological needs before higher-level needs.
What is Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs?
This level of anxiety is considered a healthy reaction necessary for survival and can actually improve problem-solving.
What is Mild Anxiety?
This is the normal laboratory range for serum Potassium (K+).
What is 3.5 to 5.0 mEq/L?
This type of grieving occurs before an actual loss happens, often when a family member has a terminal diagnosis.
What is Anticipatory Grieving?
This domain of learning involves the acquisition of "book knowledge" and intellectual skills.
What is the Cognitive Domain?
This process involves the coordination of care and the use of critical thinking and clinical judgment to manage client needs effectively.
What is Clinical Care Coordination (or Prioritization)?
This type of crisis occurs as a person moves through life stages, such as marriage or retirement.
What is a Maturational Crisis?
This assessment finding involves the movement of water into cells to balance sodium levels.
What is Osmosis?
This legal document allows a patient to appoint someone else to make healthcare decisions if they become incapacitated.
What is a Durable Health Care Power of Attorney?
In the METHOD acronym for discharge teaching, the "M" and "D" stand for these two categories.
What are Medications and Diet?
This is the first step a nurse must take when managing multiple patient needs.
What is determine prioritization.
In this phase of a crisis, usual coping mechanisms fail and trial-and-error attempts to restore balance begin.
What is Phase 2?
Positive Trousseau’s and Chvostek’s signs are classic indicators of this electrolyte imbalance.
What is Hypocalcemia (or Hypomagnesemia)?
This service focuses on the "quality of life" and comfort for patients with life-limiting illnesses, often at the end of life.
What is Hospice (or Palliative Care)?
This term describes a patient's emotional willingness and motivation to learn, which is different from their physical ability.
What is Readiness to Learn?
This specific Potter & Perry reading assignment focuses on how nurses organize and deliver care to a group of patients.
What is Clinical Care Coordination?
This extreme level of anxiety may cause a person to lose touch with reality or experience hallucinations.
What is Panic?
Patients with ESRD are at high risk for this electrolyte imbalance, which can cause peaked T-waves on an EKG and potentially fatal cardiac arrhythmias.
What is Hyperkalemia?
These are specific medical orders that instruct healthcare providers not to attempt CPR if a patient’s breathing or heartbeat stops.
What are DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) orders?
When teaching an adult, the nurse should always address these types of concerns first.
What are immediate concerns (or the patient’s priorities)?
These are the three core skills identified in your objectives that must be integrated to coordinate clinical care successfully.
What are prioritization, critical thinking, and clinical judgment?
These automatic coping styles protect people from anxiety and maintain self-image by blocking memories or conflicts.
What are Defense Mechanisms?
These two electrolytes share an inverse relationship, meaning when the serum levels of one rise, the other typically falls, often regulated by the parathyroid hormone.
What are Calcium and Phosphorus?
According to your objectives, the nurse’s primary role in advanced directives is to demonstrate this.
What is the Nurse's Role in implementation and advocacy?
This is the essential final step of the teaching process to determine if the patient has actually understood the material.
What is Evaluation?