Cultural Assessment
This is the faith spirituality assessment tool. You have to not only say the acronym, but also the words that make up the acronym.
What is FICA, faith importance/influence, community, and action/action?
The term for a comparison of a list of current medications with a previous list, which is done at every hospitalization and every clinic visit
What is medication reconcilliation?
What is PQRSTU
Palliative/provocative
Quality/quantity
Region/radiation
Severity
Timing
Understanding?
This is the first thing you should do when meeting a patient.
What is Introduction?
These four categories make up the general survey.
What is measurements, mobility, body structure, and physical appearance?
This term is defined as deliberate proactive behavior by health care providers who examine cultural situations through thoughtful reasoning, responsiveness, and discreet interactions.
What is cultural sensibility?
This type of assessment in the complete health history looks at each body system.
What is the review of systems?
This term means symmetric damage to peripheral nerves (feet or hands), resulting in pain without stimulation of the nerves
What is peripheral neuropathy?
The appropriate distance to conduct an interview.
What is 4-5?
This is the term for a mask-like facial appearance.
What is flat affect?
This type of care includes healing the patient with the embodiment of mind, body and soul.
What is holistic care?
State the difference between a sign and a symptom.
What is a symptom is a subjective sensation that the person feels from the disorder and a sign is an objective abnormality that you as the examiner could detect on physical examination or through diagnostic testing?
The PAINAD is used on this particular patient population.
What are patients with advanced dementia?
This is how you should address a new client.
What is by using their surname?
State what you are assessing based on this description: "The person stands comfortably erect as appropriate for age. Note the normal “plumb line” through anterior ear, shoulder, hip, patella, ankle. Exceptions are... the aging person, who may be stooped with kyphosis."
What is posture?
This term is defined as recognizing and understand your own culture before you can work to understand a different culture.
What is cultural awareness?
The first type of data collected in the complete health history.
What is biographical data?
State the nonverbal communication difference between acute and chronic pain.
What is acute pain patients will display guarding, grimacing, vocalizations such as moaning, agitation, restlessness, stillness, diaphoresis, or change in vital signs whereas chronic pain patients will display bracing, rubbing, diminished activity, sighing, and change in appetite?
This term is known as the data-gathering phase
What is the working phase?
This kind of gait can indicate Parkinson's Disease.
What is a shuffling gait?
What is spirituality is a broader term focused on a connection to something larger than oneself and a belief in transcendence and religion is an organized system of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, as well as the attendance of regular services?
What is subjective and objective data?
Name the key terms for all the different types of pain.
What is acute, chronic, breakthrough, somatic, visceral, deep somatic, cutaneous, and referred pain?
This type of communication is when we summarize person’s words, simplify the statement, and ensure that you are on the right track.
What is clarification?
State the normal findings of the aging adult.
What is general flexion, possible kyphosis, shorter, uneven steps, wider stance, visible boney prominences, loss of subcutaneous fat, trunk appears shorter, arms appear longer, slight loss of height?