Culture Club: Care Beyond the Chart
This can occur when a patient and healthcare provider do not share a common language and can lead to misunderstandings about diagnosis, treatment, and teaching.
What are language barriers?
This term describes groups of people who are at higher risk for poor health outcomes due to social, economic, or environmental factors.
What are vulnerable populations?
This concept describes a person’s ability to cope with stress, maintain emotional well-being, sustain relationships, and preserve a sense of identity and purpose
What is Psychosocial Integrity?
This type of isolation is required for a patient with Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV).
What is contact and Droplet precautions?
This antibiotic can cause a serious adverse effect of increased sun sensitivity, putting patients at risk for severe sunburn and skin injury.
What is Doxycycline?
This term describes the ability of healthcare providers to deliver care that respects patients’ cultural beliefs, values, and health practices.
What is cultural competence?
This is the primary age requirement for eligibility for Medicare coverage for most individuals in the United States.
What is 65 years of age or older?
When diagnosing stress in this specific population, a nurse should look for symptoms that are physical in nature because they typically appear before mental or cognitive issues
Who are older adults?
A patient with otitis media should be on this kind of precautions?
What are standard precautions?
This potentially serious cardiac adverse effect can occur with azithromycin, especially in patients with existing heart problems.
What is QT interval prolongation leading to risk of arrhythmias?
This term refers to stereotyping, prejudice, or discrimination against individuals based on their age.
What is ageism?
This is a common outcome when patients lack adequate insurance coverage and delay treatment for acute or chronic conditions.
What is worsening disease progression and increased healthcare complications?
Driven by a fear of losing family or parents, this condition in young children may manifest as nightmares, "clingy" behavior, and stomach or muscle aches
What is separation anxiety?
This type of precautions are used when caring for patients with blood or body fluid exposure risks such as open wounds or bloody secretions.
What are Standard Precautions/Universal Precautions?
This medication can cause this harmless but noticeable side effect that turns body fluids such as urine, sweat, and tears a reddish-orange color.
What is Rifampin?
This self-reflective process involves recognizing personal beliefs, assumptions, and attitudes that may influence patient care.
What is self-awareness of personal bias (or self-reflection in cultural care)?
Name 2 Ineffective/Poor Coping Strategies?
What is abusing/using alcohol or drugs, denial/avoidance, verbal/physical aggression, blaming others, bottling up feelings, withdrawaling from family/isolation, emotional eating, gambling, risky behaviors, excessive spending
These changes occur during activation of the sympathetic nervous system and may include increased heart rate, elevated blood pressure, rapid breathing, and dilated pupils.
What are the physical/physiological manifestations of stress?
This type of isolation is used for a patient with bacterial meningitis
What are Droplet Precautions?
This medication is commonly used to treat vaginal yeast infections and systemic fungal infections, and may interact with certain antibiotics and birth control.
What is Diflucan (fluconazole)?
This is the best practice for ensuring accurate communication when a patient and provider do not speak the same language.
What is using a trained medical interpreter?
Name 3 barriers that homeless individuals might face that affects their access to healthcare.
what are lack of insurance, lact of transportation, lack of stable contact information, high cost of care, lack of documentation needed, difficulty storing medications safely, inability to keep follow up appointments,competing priorities such as finding food, shelther, etc., physical exhaustion with travel, distrust of healthcare providers, stigma or discrimination, concerns about leaving belongings unattended while at appointments.
This strategy involves avoiding a stressor, denying it exists, or using substances or behaviors to escape dealing with problems.
What are ineffective coping strategies?
This type of isolation is required for a patient with Tuberculosis (TB).
What are Airborne Precautions?
These two classes of antibiotics are structurally related, and patients who are allergic to one may also have cross-sensitivity to the other.
What are penicillins and cephalosporins?