Cultural and spiritual aspects of patient care
A collection of beliefs, values, and assumptions about life that is shared and maintained by a group of people and transmitted intergenerationally.
What is cullture?
Causative agent, reservoir, portal of exit, mode of transfer, portal of entry, susceptible host.
What is the chain of infection?
Incubation stage, prodromal stage, illness stage and convalescent stage.
What are the stages of infection?
To turn or change direction with your feet while remaining in a fixed place.
What is pivot?
Partial thickness skin loss of the epidermis.
What is a stage II pressure injury?
Food that is prepared according to the Jewish dietary laws during slaughter, processing and packaging.
What are kosher foods?
Gloves, gown, mask, and googles.
What is PPE?
Infections that are transmitted to a person during care in a health care facility.
What are health care associated infections?
When the head of the bed is elevated at 60-90*.
What is fowlers position?
Skin that is frequently wet and causes softening of the tissue that can increase the chance of trauma, injury or infection.
What is maceration?
Nursing care based on a patient’s cultural and spiritual needs and improves outcomes.
What is transcultural nursing?
The most effective way to prevent the spread of infection.
What is hand washing?
A patient is placed in a special air handling and ventilation room due to an illness.
What are airborne precautions?
Pillows, boots splints, positionings wedges, footboards, trapeze bars, side rails or bed boards.
What are positioning devises?
Localized discolored intact skin that is maroon or a blood blister resulting from damage to underlying soft tissue from pressure or shearing.
What is a DTI deep tissue injury?
Feelings of guilt and unworthiness if the patient views illness as punishment for wrongdoing or sin.
What is spiritual disconnection?
A chemical substance that can kill or alter the growth of bacterial microorganisms.
What is an antibiotic?
When a person can transmit the disease although he or she does not feel ill.
What is the incubation period?
Lying face down.
What is prone position?
A self contained bag with several premoistened disposable cloths used for cleansing the patient.
What is a bag bath?
A tendency to believe that one's culture, beliefs and traditions are correct.
What is ethnocentrism?
Appling gown ,mask, googles and gloves.
What is the order of donning PPE?
This is used for care of all patient no matter what the diagnosis is.
What are standard precautions?
A machine used to mechanically lift and transfer a patient.
What is a Hoyer lift?
A scale used for predicting the pressure injury risk.
What is a Braden scale?