Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
The most basic needs are biological needs such as the need for water, oxygen, food, and temperature regulation.
What is Physiological Needs.
Nonspecific response of the body to a demand. Can take the form of a physical, chemical, or emotional phenomenon that causes tension in the patient.
What is Stress.
The leading cause of death among children and young adults.
What is Trauma.
Speaks for patients if they become incapacitated. Allows patients to state in writing exactly what medical interventions they are willing to endure to sustain life.
What is Living Will.
The treatment of the patient for the purpose of preventing or combating disease or illness.
What is Therapeutic Care.
These are basic social needs- to be known and cared for as an individual and to care for others.
What is Belongingness and Love Needs.
A way of describing, interpreting, or explaining something that makes it seem proper and/or acceptable.
What is Rationalization.
The age that pediatric patient's pulse and respirations reach adult norms.
What is 13-18 years of age.
Order that states that resuscitation should not be attempted if a patient suffers cardiac or respiratory arrest.
Set of therapies that preserve a patient's life when body systems are not functioning sufficiently to sustain it.
What is Life Support.
This is the need to fulfill what one believes is one's purpose.
What is Self Actualization.
What is Denial.
The term for difficult delivery.
What is Dystocia.
Legal written authorization to represent or act on another's behalf and includes medical decisions for the patient in the event they cannot make decisions.
What is Power of Attorney.
When the physician does nothing to preserve life.
What is Passive Euthanasia.
This level of need refers to a positive evaluation of oneself and others, a need to be respected and to respect others.
What is Prestige and Esteem Needs.
A mental process by which distressing thoughts, memories, or impulses that may give rise to anxiety are excluded from consciousness and left to operate in the unconscious.
What is Repression.
Common cause of septic shock in children.
What is Peritonitis.
Allows patients to refuse treatment.
What is AHA Patient Care Partnership.
Requires actions that speed the process of dying, such as the administration of morphine.
What is Active Euthanasia.
What is Safety Needs.
A trend or shift toward a lower or less perfect state, progressive decline, movement backward to a previous and especially worse or more primitive state or condition.
What is Regression.
Common conditions seen with the HIV+ patient?
What Dormant Retrovirus.
Requires medical facilities to inform patients of their right to chose the type and extent of their medical care and to provide patients with information concerning advanced directives.
What is Patient Self-Determination Act (1990).
Mitigating suffering by managing symptoms and improving the quality of life among those living with a serious illness, no matter the diagnosis or stage of disease.
What is Palliative Care.