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Eating disorders are serious, potentially life-threatening conditions that affect a person’s ____, ____, ____, and ____ health.
What are emotional, physical, social, and spiritual
Lack of this essential function can lead to impaired memory, weakened immunity, and decreased focus.
What is sleep?
This nutrient is vital for building and repairing tissues in the body.
What is protein?
Once you start taking a medication, you should never do this without first talking to your doctor.
What is stop taking the medication.
Utah is home to this lake, the largest of its kind in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Great Salt Lake?
An imbalance of these (sodium, magnesium, calcium, chloride, potassium) can lead to irregular heartbeats, heart failure, and even death.
What are electrolytes?
The consumption of adequate amounts of water to maintain proper body function.
What is hydration?
A network of organs that help you digest and absorb nutrition from your food
What is the digestive system?
Name two of the five factors that can cause medications can work differently for different people. Understanding these factors can help in tailoring treatment plans to individual needs, ensuring better outcomes for patients.
Due to Utah’s desert-like climate and high elevation, its snow is usually powdery and dry. Hence the states claim to have this:
What is the “greatest snow on Earth”?
Stomach pain and bloating, Nausea and vomiting, Blood sugar fluctuations, Blocked intestines from solid masses of undigested food, Bacterial infections, and feeling full after eating only small amounts of food are symptoms of what?
What is Slowed digestion known as gastroparesis? Food restriction and/or purging by interferes with normal stomach emptying and the digestion of nutrients.
Implementation of these have eradicated or controlled diseases like polio, measles, and rubella.
What are vaccination programs?
Beans and legumes, nuts and seeds, and fruits are the three main sources of _____ _____.
What is dietary fiber?
The two reasons we give medications at Avalon with a full six ounces of water.
What is so the medication doesn't erode the esophagus and helps it get to the stomach to start working.
Utah's nickname, which symbolizes industry and perseverance.
What is the Beehive State?
When someone makes themselves vomit over a long period of time, their _____ _____ _____ under the jaw and in front of the ears can get swollen. This can also happen when a person stops vomiting.
What are the salivary (parotid) glands?
Known as “The Lady With the Lamp,” this woman was a British nurse, social reformer and statistician best known as the founder of modern nursing. Her experiences as a nurse during the Crimean War were foundational in her views about sanitation. She established St. Thomas’s Hospital and the Training School for Nurses, which carries her last name, in 1860. Her efforts to reform healthcare greatly influenced the quality of care in the 19 and 20 centuries.
Who is Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)?
In what part of the human body can the strongest muscle be found?
The mouth (tongue).
This is the abbreviation we use for a medication that is prescribed to you that you can take as needed by requesting it from a nurse.
what is a PRN?
Utah borders these five states.
What are Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, and Nevada?
The body makes many of its needed hormones with the fat and cholesterol we eat. Without enough fat and calories in the diet, levels of hormones can fall, including:
What are
Lowered sex hormones can cause menstruation to fail to begin, to become irregular, or to stop completely; diminish sex drive and sexual functioning; and can significantly increase bone loss (known as osteopenia and osteoporosis) and the risk of broken bones and fractures.
Lowered thyroid hormones can cause increased weight gain and tiredness.
The Greek physician who is often credited with being the father of medicine, and his teachings on the importance of observation, documentation, and experimentation remain influential to this day.
Who is Hippocrates?
What is Vitamin C?
The name of the medications in the pink pill that is taken morning and night to help build strong bones.
What is Calcium and Vitamin D
Utah boasts five national parks, known as the "Mighty 5," which include:
What are Zion, Bryce Canyon, Arches, Canyonlands, and Capitol Reef?