Data and Databases
What the patient tells you, such as "my chest hurts."
What is subjective data?
Airway, breathing, circulation and vital sign concerns: this priority mnemonic.
What is ABCs plus V?
Immunization and sanitation are this level of prevention.
What is primary prevention?
Giving people what they need from their own starting point.
What is equity?
How far to sit from the patient during an interview.
What is about 1.5 m (twice arm's length)?
What the nurse observes, measures or feels.
What is objective data?
Acute pain and abnormal lab values fall at this priority level.
What is second level?
Pap tests and mammograms are this level of prevention.
What is secondary prevention?
Unfair health differences that come from marginalization.
What are health inequities?
"Tell me about your pain" is this type of question.
What is an open-ended question?
A full baseline history and exam, as on admission.
What is a complete (total health) database?
A knowledge deficit about medications is this priority level.
What is third level?
Cardiac rehabilitation after a heart attack is this level of prevention.
What is tertiary prevention?
Care judged safe by the patient; first developed by Maori nurses.
What is cultural safety?
"Do you exercise and eat a balanced diet?" is this kind of question to avoid.
What is a double-barrelled question?
A new cough two days after surgery calls for this database: one problem, one body system.
What is an episodic (problem-centred) database?
A tentative explanation for a cue that guides further data collection.
What is a hypothesis?
This 1986 document set out five action strategies for health promotion.
What is the Ottawa Charter?
Jarvis says race is this, with no biological legitimacy.
What is a social construct?
"Don't worry, I'm sure it will be fine" is this communication trap.
What is false reassurance?
Rapid data collected at the same time as life-saving measures.
What is an emergency database?
A patient who just walked in has a BP of 168/98. Do this before documenting hypertension.
What is let them rest and repeat the measurement?
About 50% of health outcomes come from these factors.
What are social and economic factors?
Pulse oximeters can read up to 7% too high in people with this.
What is darker skin?
Questions starting with this word imply blame and make the patient defensive.
What is "why"?