Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life. Nursing is just not about taking care of the patients in recovery beds by feeding them and administering medication, there is much more to it. This nursing assessment will help you as a nurse to better understand different nursing concepts.
Is a step by step linear process
Is a multidimensional thinking process
Is not required when making sound diagnostic reasoning and clinical judgement
Does not grow
Complete Database
Episodic Database
Follow-Up Database
Emergency Database
Is the inequalities in heath that are unnecessary and avoidable and differences that are considered unfair and unjust.
Is a generic term used to designate differences, variations, and disparities in the health status of individual and groups.
Health inequality and health inequity are the same
Example include the higher incidence of deaths in the prime of life for women in Canada compared with men, largely due to breast and other cancers
Have you ever had pain in the eye?
From a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being the weakest and 10 being the strongest, how much would you rate your pain?
Is it okay if I touch you?
How have you been getting along?
Providing false assurance or reassurance
Giving unwanted advice
Using professional Jargon
Interrupting
Make sure you speak louder
Make sure to exaggerate your lip movement for better understanding
Find an interpreter or speak slowly
Make sure you do not use hand gestures because this can invade their personal space
Provocative or palliative, quality or quantity, region or radiation, severity scale, timing, and understanding patient's perception
Past health, quality of health, requirement of health, standard of health, Teaching of health, and understanding of health
Palpating, questioning, reasoning, signaling, teaching, and understanding
None of the above
May be of genetic significance for the data collection
May tell a clients prolonged contact with any communicable disease
May indicate effect of a family members illness on the client
All of the above
Instrumental activities of daily living
Activities that patient needs full assistance in performing
Activities of daily living
Activities that patient needs no assistance in performing
Subjective data
Objective data
Data clustering
Data analysis and interpreting
Other health care provider may document for you
Do not generalize or form judgements through written communication
Do not be descriptive. Time is wasted on documentation for writing everything seen, heard, felt or smelled.
It is okay not to record assessment during your next shift
Collecting
Interpreting
Clustering
Labelling
A dead stop of sound, absolute dullness, very short duration and can be heard over bones
A muffled thud, short in duration, and can be heard over the liver
Clear and hollow sound, moderate in duration and can be heard over normal lung tissue
Musical and drumlike, sustained longest duration, and can be heard over stomach
Using a large cuff for thin clients
Taking blood pressure when the client wakes up
Asking client to support own arm
If failing to record measurement, take it again right away
Age, gender, ethnocultural background and weight
Amount of stress, weight, exercise and emotions
Physical appearance, body structure, behaviour and mobility
Rate, rhythm, force and elasticity
Systolic pressure
Diastolic pressure
Pulse pressure
Mean arterial pressure
Nociceptive pain, acute pain
Nociceptive pain, persistent pain
Neuropathic pain, acute pain
Neuropathic, persistent pain
Pain should be considered a normal part of aging
Older adults will often deny having pain for fear of dependency
Pain in neonates and infants cannot be assessed
Psychological changes that take place that may indicate the presence of pain includes sweating, increase blood pressure and heart rate, vomiting and nausea
The short-form McGill pain questionnaire
The brief pain inventory
Numeric rating scale
Descriptor scale
Perception, transmission, transduction, modulation
Transmission, perception, modulation, transduction
Transduction, transmission, perception, modulation
Transduction, modulation, perception, transmission
Ms. E who had prior suicide attempt and is now in a rehabilitation centre
Mr. F jokingly tells his friend that he was wants to shoot himself with his fathers pistol because there is so much to deal with in life. The next day Mr. F had ran away from home and left his family a letter saying he is giving up
Mr. G who is recovering from a traumatic brain injury from a car crash that has killed his wife
Holly, an 8 year old girl is giving away all her toys to the orphanage
Perception
Orientation
Attention
Consciousness
Level of Consciousness, speech, mood and affect, and facial expression
Grooming hygiene, dress, body movement, and posture
Attention span, recent memory, and remote memory
Orientation, posture, facial expression, attention span
Time orientation
Place orientation
Registration of five words
Reading
Both the dermis and subcutaneous layer
Dermis layer
Epidermis layer
Subcutaneous layer
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