Complimentary, Alternative, and Integrative Therapy
Therapies used together with conventional medicine, such as medication plus meditation.
Answer: What is complementary (or integrative) therapy?
This type of grief lasts several months to about 1 year and gradually gets better over time.
Answer: What is normal (or uncomplicated) grief?
Short-term pain with a clear cause, such as a surgical incision.
Answer: What is acute pain?
The first phase of wound healing where blood vessels constrict and clotting occurs.
Answer: What is inflammation (or hemostatic phase)?
An expected change in older adults: decrease in pupil size and reaction to this.
Answer: What is light?
This category of therapy includes hypnosis, meditation, guided imagery, and biofeedback.
What is mind-body therapies?
A client whose partner died 3 years ago still cannot accept the loss
Answer: What is prolonged grief?
Phantom limb pain is an example of this type of pain.
Answer: What is neuropathic pain?
A surgical incision that is sutured closed heals by this type of intention.
Answer: What is primary intention?
When caring for a vision-impaired client, the nurse should always do this when speaking.
Answer: What is face the client?
The herbal supplement commonly used to decrease nausea and vomiting.
Answer: What is ginger?
Grief that is experienced before the actual loss occurs, such as when caring for someone with a terminal illness.
Answer: What is anticipatory grief?
The priority assessment after giving an opioid medication for incisional pain.
Answer: What is pulse oximetry (or check breathing/oxygen level)?
Pressure injury stage with intact skin and localized non-blanchable redness.
Answer: What is Stage 1?
Important foot care instruction for a client with diabetic neuropathy.
Answer: What is avoid walking barefoot?
Encouraging a client with chronic pain to take slow, deep breaths is an example of this type of nursing.
Answer: What is holistic nursing?
A preschooler whose parent died is most likely to do this behavior.
Answer: What is cling to their caregiver?
Older adult clients often do this with their pain.
Answer: What is under-report their pain?
The best dressing for a superficial wound with no exudate.
Answer: What is film dressing?
Older adults often have an increase in this in the ear canal.
Answer: What is cerumen (earwax)?
A possible adverse effect of massage therapy, especially in older adults.
Answer: What is nerve injury (or bone fractures)?
The Kübler-Ross stage where a client says, “If I get better, I promise to go to church every day.”
Answer: What is bargaining?
Cold therapy is best used immediately after this type of injury.
Answer: What is a new ankle sprain?
When irrigating a wound, the nurse should continue until the draining solution does this.
Answer: What is runs clear (or all debris is removed)?
For a speech-impaired client, the nurse should give this to improve communication.
Answer: What is extra time (or allow the client to finish sentences)?