Prefixes, Suffixes, Oh My
The prefix: Anti-
What is without?
A scraping, or rubbing away of a surface, such as skin or teeth, by friction. It may be the result of trauma or of therapy.
What is an abrasion?
A ______ ________ is a clinical judgment made by a registered nurse to describe a patient’s response or vulnerability to health conditions or life events that the nurse is licensed and competent to treat.
What is a nursing diagnosis?
Sounds heard during the taking of blood pressure
What is Korotkoff Sounds?
Frequently patients experience the loss of the ability to perform _________ __ ________ _________. Such decline may result not only from illness or adverse treatment effects but also from deconditioning associated with imposed inactivity.
What is activity of daily living?
The prefix: Bi-
What is double or two?
A tumor that tends to grow, invade, and metastasize. The tumor usually has an irregular shape and is composed of poorly differentiated cells.
What is malignant neoplasm?
Components of _____________ include specific knowledge base, experience, environment, attitudes, and standards.
What is critical thinking?
Movement of a limb toward the body.
What is adduction?
_________ __________ occur when a person has difficulty receiving or perceiving stimuli with your senses or when external stimuli are meaningless/deficient or when there is excessive stimulation of your senses.
What is sensory alterations?
The suffix: algia or dynia
What is pain?
Vomiting of bright red blood, indicating rapid upper GI bleeding, commonly associated with esophageal varices or peptic ulcer.
What is hematemesis?
____________ data are your patients’ verbal descriptions of their health problems gathered during interviews (informal and formal). This type of data include patient feelings, perceptions, and self-reported symptoms.
What is subjective data?
Part of the body between the bottom of the ribs and the upper border of the ilium; it overlies the kidneys.
What is the Flank?
Name this technique when the hand of the person rolls inward the sheet drawn under a patient lying in supine position on a bed.
What is a trochanter roll?
The suffix: -megaly
What is abnormal enlargement?
The secretion of sweat, especially the profuse secretion associated with an elevated body temperature, physical exertion, exposure to heat, and mental or emotional stress.
What is diaphoresis?
______________ interventions are those that a nurse initiates in response to a nursing diagnosis without supervision, direction, or orders from others.
What is independent nursing interventions?
What is the abdomen?
______________ an observable activity in the nervous system that allows people to detect pain
What is nocioception?
The suffix: -ectomy
What is cutting out?
An abnormal sound heard on auscultation of an airway obstructed by thick secretions, muscular spasm, neoplasm, or external pressure. The continuous rumbling sound is more pronounced during expiration and characteristically clears on coughing, whereas gurgles do not.
What is Rhonchi?
The _________ process does the following: reflects on the approach to care, involves making clinical decisions and requires the use of assessment skills.
What is evaluation?
Smile. Puff out your cheeks. Make a funny face. All testing cranial nerve ____________.
What is Cranial nerve VII, facial nerve?
Patients who are immobile are at high risk for developing ________ __________ (also known as collapse of alveoli)
What is pulmonary atelectasis?