Nursing Theories
states that the goal of nursing is to serve individuals and assist them to provide self care through identifying the reason an individual needs care, planning for delivery of care and managing that care
general theory of nursing
Associated with strokes of the left hemisphere, includes expressive aphasia and receptive aphasia
Pays a set amount per patient based on the diagnosis related group (DRG)
Prospective payment system (PPS)
Can occur as the result of sexual activity, pt needing to have a bowel movement or void, tight clothing, pain, bedsores etc.
Autonomic dysreflexia
Involves apneic and hypopneic episodes without obstruction and usually results from cardiac or neurological disorders that cause impairment of ventilations- snoring is usually mil and individuals may complain of insomnia
Central Sleep Apnea
considers those stress related events that are turning points and can lead to danger or oppurtunity
Crisis theory
Assists patients with home safety and self care issues, such as wearing properly fitting shoes
Occupational Therapy
Plans that are contracted by Medicare with private insurance companies and may provide more benefits, but the patient may be required to work individually with the insurance company to determine benefits and may be assessed an additional monthly fee
Pay for service plans
Can include severe vomiting and diarrhea, increased muscle tremors and twitching, lethargy, body aches, ataxia, ringing in the ears, blurry vision, vertigo when the blood level of this drug gets to high
Lithium
The ability of the central nervous system to form new neural connections or repair damaged connections through axonal sprouting, in which healthy axons reconnect damaged pathways
Neuroplasticity
Individual reacts to stress through mechanisms of defense and resistance and how this feedback affects that individuals stability
total-person systems model
Federal agency that ensures workers safety and protections
OSHA
Provided by a health maintenance organization in which receives payment for services rather then the traditional pay for service Medicare payment system
Medicare managed care
commonly occurs after a stroke or other neurological impairment because of damage to nerves and muscles in the throat
Oropharyngeal dysphagia
Cranial nerve
Motor innervations of the muscles of the tongue allowing for coordinated contraction of the tongue muscles necessary for food manipulation, swallowing and speech
CN XII Hypoglossal
considers that the nursing process includes the behavior of the individual, the nurse's reaction, and the subsequent nursing action
Nursing process theory
Style of documentation that involves subjective, objective assessment and plan
What is SOAP
Works to provide the provision of high quality, cost effective health and social services. Organizes rehab and other necessary services to promote outcomes that will encourage the highest level of independence
Case Manager
able to describe an item or scene and uses but unable to recognize it when perceived visually, such as not being able to recognize the comb while understanding what the comb is used for
Associative visual agnosia
This part of the brain controls higher intellectual and social processing and injury will result in loss of intellect and inappropriate social behaviors
Frontal Lobe
Energy field, Openness, Pattern, Pan-dimensionality
Roger's science of unitary human beings theory
Group of individuals who live together with similar disabilities with 24 hour supervision and often have aides to help with ADL's
Group Home
National data base that contains data for nursing staff skill mix, PPD, assault and injury rates, Catheter acquired infections, Fall rates etc.
NDNQI National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators
neurodegenerative brain disorder that progresses slowly in most people. Typically, onset of this disorder is seen in middle age to the elderly populations.
Parkinson's disease
Rapid progressive neurodegenerative disease involving the destruction of motor neurons in the brain stem and the anterior gray horns of the spinal cord and degeneration of pyramidal tracts
ALS Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis