Health and Illness
This type of illness has a sudden onset and short duration.
What is acute illness?
In Maslow’s hierarchy, hydration belongs to this most basic level.
What are physiological needs?
For oral care of a conscious patient, raise the head of bed to this angle range.
What is 45–90 degrees?
The period after exposure to an organism but before signs or symptoms develop is this stage of infection.
What is the incubation stage?
A restraint should be secured to this part of the bed—not a side rail.
What is a non-movable part of the bed frame?
A disease caused by another illness is classified with this term.
What is a secondary illness/disease?
Fight-or-flight occurs during this first stage of General Adaptation Syndrome.
What is the alarm stage?
Best-practice full oral care for a conscious patient is performed at this interval.
What is every 6 hours (4 times a day)?
In the chain of infection, the vulnerable person is called this.
What is the susceptible host?
After a fall, this report should generally NOT be referenced in the patient’s medical record.
What is an incident report?
This term means the body’s internal balance.
What is homeostasis?
After prolonged stress, when effective adaptation can no longer be maintained, the patient is in this GAS stage.
What is the stage of exhaustion?
For an unconscious patient, full mouth care is performed at this interval.
What is every 4 hours?
Incubation, prodromal, illness, and convalescent are the four of these.
What are the stages of infection?
This acronym guides the nurse in how to work a fire extinguisher appropriately.
What is PASS?
When the body does not adapt as it should, it is called this.
What is maladaptation?
A patient stating “I haven't had anything to drink since yesterday” is displaying a concern that can be attributed to which level in Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
What is physiological needs?
For an unconscious patient, mouth swabbing is performed at this interval.
What is every 2 hours?
Antibodies transferred from mother to fetus through the placenta are an example of this type of immunity.
What is naturally acquired passive immunity?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: This is an example of which defense mechanism: A nursing student receives a failing grade after spending very little time preparing for an exam. The student tells classmates, “I failed because the instructor's lectures were poor and the exam was unfair.”
What is Rationalization?
The nurse identifies these as the three stages of Illness.
What are Transition, Acceptance, and Convalescence?
A patient encounters a significant stressor and develops the fight-or-flight response. The nurse identifies that which stage of the General Adaptation Syndrome is occurring?
What is Alarm stage?
Dentures should be removed for at least this many hours per day.
What is 6 hours per day?
The chain of infection includes causative agent, reservoir, mode of transfer, portal of entry, susceptible host, and this missing link.
What is portal of exit?
Redirecting anger from the healthcare provider toward a less threatening nursing assistant demonstrates this defense mechanism.
What is displacement?