Pain management
Protective, temporary, self-limiting, has a direct cause, and resolves with tissue healing
What is acute pain?
Needles or digital pressure along meridians to alter body function or produce analgesia.
What is acupuncture/acupressure?
Temporary or permanent openings surgically created in the abdominal wall to allow fecal matter to pass.
What are ostomies?
The kidneys
What are the primary organs of urinary elimination?
Make sure the call light is easily accessible, orient clients to the room, keep furniture clear from the path to the bathroom, keep personal items within reach, place the bed in its lowest position, and make sure IV poles, drainage tubes, and bags are easy to maneuver.
What are ways to increase client safety?
A form of chronic pain without a known cause, or pain that exceeds the typical pain levels associated with the client's condition.
What is idiopathic pain?
Aloe, chamomile, echinacea, garlic, ginger, ginkgo biloba, ginseng, and valerian.
What are herbal remedies?
Can result in difficulty contracting gluteal muscles and defecating.
What is immobility?
Loss of urine due to factors that interfere with responding to the need to urinate
What is functional incontinence?
Ability to receive and interpret sensory impressions through sight (visual), hearing (auditory), touch (tactile), smell (olfactory), taste (gustatory), and movement/position (kinesthetic).
What is sensory perception?
Age, fatigue, genetic sensitivity, cognitive function, prior experiences, anxiety and fear, support system and coping styles, and culture.
Guided imagery/visualization therapy, healing intention, breath work, humor, meditation, simple touch, music or art therapy, therapeutic communication, and relaxation techniques.
What are alternative therapies?
Adequate fiber in the diet, adequate fluid intake and adequate activity (walking 15 to 20 min/day if mobile and exercises in bed or chair if immobile).
What are actions to promote regular bowel elimination?
Occurs while an indwelling catheter is in place or up to 48 hr after discontinuing
Hearing aids, glasses, cane/walker/wheelchair.
What are assistive devices?
Sedation, respiratory depression, urinary retention, nausea and vomiting, and constipation.
What are the adverse effects of opioid use?
Use exercise or activity to promote physical and emotional well-being (pilates, dance therapy, etc.)
What is movement therapy?
Weakening of the bowel's expected response to distention from feces, resulting in the development of chronic constipation.
What is laxative overuse?
Emotional stress and anxiety, having to use public toilets, lack of privacy during hospital stays, not enough time to urinate
What are psychosocial factors affecting urinary elimination?
Advise clients to wear sunglasses while outside and protective eyewear while working in areas and at tasks with a risk for eye injury, instruct clients to avoid rubbing eyes, and tell clients to get an eye exam regularly, especially after 40.
What are health promotion and disease prevention strategies for vision loss?
Anticonvulsants, antianxiety agents, tricyclic antidepressants, anesthetics, antihistamines, glucocorticoids, antiemetics, bisphosphonates and calcitonin.
What are adjuvant analgesics?
Whole medical systems, biological and botanical therapies, body-based and manipulative methods, mind-body therapies, energy therapies, and movement therapies.
What are the categories of CAM?
Intestinal obstruction caused by reduced motility following bowel manipulation during surgery, electrolyte imbalance, wound infection, or by the effects of medication.
What is paralytic ileus?
Phenazopyridine, amitryptiline, levodopa, riboflavin
What are medications that change urine color?
Advise clients not to place any objects in the ear, including cotton-tipped swabs, tell clients to have an otologist remove any object lodged in the ear, instruct clients to wear ear protection during exposure to high-intensity noise and risk for ear trauma, tell clients to blow nose gently and with both nostrils unobstructed, and advice clients to keep the volume as low as possible when wearing headphones.
What are health promotion and disease prevention strategies for hearing loss?