Basic Care
What system includes at least one hospital, a large number of physicians that have a joint management with a goal to provide care?
What is the Health Care System?
What test is performed on a child 1 minute and 5 minutes after birth to check their physical condition?
What is the Apgar test?
What is the main difference between Home care and Public health care?
What is direct care with patients?
What is mixed Dementia?
What is Combination of Alzheimer's disease, vascular brain changes, prior alcoholism?
What does acute mean? (in medical terms)
What is a condition that's worsening and need immediate attention
What is the positive and beneficial response from a treatment?
What is Therapeutic Response?
Define ageism.
What is a form of prejudice in which older adults are stereotyped by characteristics found in only a few members of their group.
Children with chronic otitis media are at risk for developing what problem?
What is hearing loss?
What is Dysarthia?
A speech disorder caused by a weakness or incoordination of the speech muscles. Occurs as a result of central or peripheral neuromuscular disorders that interfere with the clarity of speech and pronunciation. Characterized by weakness, slow movement, and a lack of coordination of the muscles associated with speech.
What is the Natural Aging of the Renal System?
What is Blood flow through the kidneys decreases, loss of as many as 50% of the nephrons, decrease in size and function in the kidney cortex.
What is the process of almost completely bringing back a patient to best physical and mental health after an impairment to one or both?
What is Rehabilitation?
Define Holistic Nursing with Older Adult clients
An integrated method of functioning which is oriented toward maximizing the potential of which an individual is capable within the environment where he is functioning.
What is Dysphagia?
May occur as a result of neurologic diseases such as stroke, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, and dementia. Negative consequences include weight loss, malnutrition, dehydration, and aspirations. Increased risk of aspiration pneumonia. Classified as oropharyngeal or esophageal
Define Age Related Wet Macular Degeneration.
Occurs when abnormal blood vessels behind the retina start to grow under the macula; new blood vessels are fragile and often leak blood and fluid which raise the macula from its normal place at the back of the eye; severe loss of central vision can be rapid
What is Disenfranchised Grief?
What is an experience of the person whose loss cannot be openly acknowledged or publicly mourned.
What are the 4 conditions that HAVE to be met for medicare?
1. The physician has determined the need for home care and has made or authorized a plan for home care
2. The patient needs intermitted skilled nursing care or physical or speech-language therapy or continued occupational therapy
3. The patient is homebound
4. The agency providing the care is Medicare certified
To reassure and educate pregnant patients about changes in their breasts, nurses should be aware that
Lactation is inhibited until the estrogen level declines after birth.
A home health nurse is visiting a client for the first time. While assessing the client's medication, it is noted that there are 19 prescription and several over the counter medications that the client is taking. What intervention should the nurse take first?
What is Xerosis?
Extremely dry, cracked, and itchy skin; Occurs primarily in the extremities; exposure to environmental elements contributes to skin dryness and dehydration; dry skin may be just dry skin, but it may also be a symptom of more serious systemic disease.
What is a patient name, medication name, dose, route, frequency, amount to be dispensed, number of refills, physician signature
If a subcutaneous injection has to be given at a 45 degree angle, what is needle length necessary for this injection?
What is a 5/8 needle?
Describe the care of a child in a mist tent.
What is Monitor child's temperature, keep tent edges tucked in, keep clothing dry, assess child's respiratory status, look at child inside tent
List the 7 signs of respiratory distress in a pediatric patient
What is Restlessness, achycardia, tachypnea, diaphoresis, flaring nostrils, retractions, and grunting
What is a benign growth that appears mainly on the trunk, face, neck, and scalp as single or multiple lesions found especially in men. A waxy, raised, verrucous lesion, flesh-colored or pigmented in varying sizes.
What is Seborrheic Keratosis
What is inflammation?