Communication
Identifying abnormal impressions like elation, hostility, or bluntness is part of assessing this aspect of communication.
What is assessing the client's affect?
This is the physiological need that allows the body to repair damaged cells and enhances the removal of waste products.
What is rest?
This client position promotes hip joint extension when lying flat on the stomach.
What is the prone position?
This is the term for the cognitive processes used in complex thinking operations, such as problem-solving and decision-making.
What are critical thinking skills?
When using the ABC pneumonic for prioritization, this aspect takes precedence over circulation but comes after airway in a patient's assessment.
What is the Breathing?
This assessment evaluates sensory and motor pathways, utilizing a scale from absent to hyperactive for measuring reflexes.
What are Deep Tendon Reflexes (DTRs)?
This is the term for abnormally increased nail bed angles, in a rounded shape, are indicative of prolonged decreased oxygenation.
What is Clubbing?
Clients with a spinal cord injury typically experience this below the level of the injury.
What is loss of sensory function?
A nurse might provide a client with these things to facilitate communication for a stroke patient who struggles with speech.
What is providing a pad and pencil, or a magic slate?
These are the proposed two reasons for sleep according to theories.
What are restoring CNS balance and mediating stress?
This ROM exercise is performed by the client with resistance to enhance muscle power, potentially using 5-lb bags or weights.
What is active resistive range of motion?
This term describes feelings and traits that determine whether one uses thinking skills fairly and with an open mind.
What are critical-thinking attitudes?
Without a thorough assessment, the effectiveness of these actions or plans may be compromised, as they may not target the actual problem.
What are Interventions or Care Plans?
This neurological alteration may present with transient confusion, headache, and possible memory loss after a head injury or other similar event.
What is a Concussion?
This high-pitched, harsh sound associated with airway obstruction near the larynx is known as this term.
What is Stridor?
This part of the autonomic nervous system accelerates bodily activity.
What is the sympathetic part?
These are communication practices nurses should use when interacting with these types of clients: Addressing the client by name, Introducing oneself, Stating the reason for being there, and Informing the client when leaving the room
What are blind clients?
These are some precautions and measures that can be used to prevent injuries related to activities like motor vehicle accidents, job-related incidents, contact sports, aging, and pregnancy.
What are using seat belts, helmets, safety procedures, and securing rugs?
This type of therapeutic communication encourages clients to elaborate, recall experiences, and explain feelings, using details.
What is clarification?
These are beliefs or ideas taken for granted, often without evidence or justification, that can influence how people interpret facts and draw conclusions.
What are assumptions?
According to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, this level, is deemed the priority for patient care.
What are Physiological Needs?
This type of stroke occurs due to a blockage in cerebral flow caused by thrombosis or embolism.
What is Ischemic Stroke?
This condition, characterized by collapsed lung regions, decreased lung expansion, and stasis of secretions, can result from immobility.
What is Atelectasis?
This syndrome involves an acute, rapid, ascending sensory and motor deficit, often halting at any level of the central nervous system.
What is Guillain-Barré Syndrome?
This phase of a therapeutic relationship involves setting the boundaries for the relationship.
What is the initiating phase?
These are some of the examples of changes in sleep patterns and potential contributing factors common among older adults.
What is difficulty sleeping and increased awakenings, and the potential contributing factors of depression, pain, and medication for older adults' sleep changes?
This type of nonverbal communication is a therapeutic response that allows clients time to think, reflects acceptance, and grants them the lead in conversation.
What is using silence?
This type of information involves dates, names, or information that can be proven with evidence-based practice.
What are facts?
The part of the ABCs that is the initial assessment by nurse which often identifies life-threatening conditions, with this as the primary focus due to its potential to indicate immediate danger.
What is the Airway (ABCs)?
This category of neurological deficit involves no voluntary motor activity or sensation below the level of injury.
What is a Complete Spinal Cord Injury?
This respiratory pattern characterized by a period of fast, shallow breathing followed by slower, deeper breaths and temporary pauses.
What are Cheyne-Stokes respirations?
Focal neurological signs in brain abscesses may include seizures, speech disturbances, and these types of changes.
What are personality changes?
These are the main tools or techniques used to foster a therapeutic exchange between a nurse and a client.
What are therapeutic responses?
These are some recommended practices for exercise among older adults.
What is incorporating warm-up and cool-down exercises and aiming for 30 minutes of activity five times a week?
This type of question, typically answered by 'yes' or 'no,' should be avoided in therapeutic communication as it restricts sharing and pressures the client.
What are closed-ended questions?
These are some characteristics possessed by critical thinkers, including being flexible, nonjudgmental, and inquisitive.
What are flexibility, nonjudgmentalism, and curiosity?
According to Maslow's Hierarchy, after fulfilling physiological needs, the next priority for individuals shifts to this level.
What is Safety and Security Needs?
Neurological signs of this condition may include seizures, visual disturbances, and cranial nerve palsies, varying based on the lesion area.
What is Meningitis?
This condition, marked by a severe increase in depth and rate of breathing, is also known as "air hunger."
What are Kussmaul's respirations?
Individuals with intellectual delay often benefit from this type of intervention.
What is sensory stimulation?
This approach should be used by a nurse during situational or traumatic crises.
What is open communication and allowing clients to express their feelings during situational or traumatic crises?
These are some key health-promoting behaviors recommended for maintaining optimal body structure and function.
What is avoiding smoking, following a balanced diet, monitoring blood pressure, and regular physical activity?
When managing a client with depression, this approach should be used by the nurse to support the client's realistic improvement without doing everything for them.
What is showing confidence in the client and working together without taking over?
This is a cognitive process that involves integrating new information with prior knowledge to form a complete understanding.
What is one of the critical thinking skills?
This systematic gathering of information forms the initial step in the nursing process, involving both subjective and objective data.
What is the Nursing Assessment?
This assessment is crucial in identifying signs like changes in consciousness and seizures using tools like the Glasgow Coma Scale to evaluate severe head injuries.
What is the Assessment for Altered Neurological Function?
This term describes difficult, labored, or painful breathing, which can be considered normal after intense physical exertion.
What is Dyspnea?
This prodromal illness may present with headache, fever, myalgia, and sore throat and precedes the onset of neurological signs.
What is Encephalitis?