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NUR 1600 Test 1 vocab1. Fluid and Electrolytes
Answer
The proccess of regulating the extracellular fluid volume, body fluid osmolality and plasma
concentrations of electrolytes
2. Thermoregulation
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Process of maintaining core body temperature at a near constant value
3. Perfusion
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The flow of blood through arteries and capillaries, delivering nutrients and oxygen to cells
4. Gas exchange
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The process by which oxygen is transported to cells and carbon dioxide is transported from cells
5. Infection
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The invasion and multiplication of microorganisms in body tissues, which may be clinically
unapparent or result in local cellular injury due to competitive metabolism, toxins, intracellular
replication, or antigen-antibody response
6. Safety
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Freedom from accidental injury; ensuring patient safety involves the es- tablishment of
operational systems and processes that minimize the likelihood of errors and maximizes the
likelihood of intercepting them when they occur
7. Professionalism
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A sense of oneself and in relation to others , that is influenced by characteristics, norms and
,values of the nursing discipline, resulting in an indi- vidual thinking , acting and feeling like a
nurse
8. Communication
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A process of interaction between people in which symbols are used to create, exchange and
interpret messages about ideas, emotions and mind states
9. Febrile
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Fever- having or showing symptoms of a fever
10. Afebrile
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Not having a fever, free from fever
11. Tachypnea
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Respiratory rate greater than 20 bpm; high respiratory rate; abnor- mally rapid respiratory rate
12. bradypnea
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Respiratory rate less than 12 bpm; low respiratory rate; abnormally slow respiratory rate
13. Tachycardia
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Heart rate greater than 100 bpm; High heart rate; heart rate that is faster than normal
14. Bradycardia
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Heart rate that is less than 60 bpm; low heart rate; a slower than normal heart rate
15. Dyspnea
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, Difficult breathing or labored breathing
16. Eupnea
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Normal and healthy breathing-normal, unlabored breathing; known as resting respiratory rate
17. sphygmomanometer
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An instrument for measuring blood pressure that con- sists of an inflatable rubber cuff that is
applied to the arm and connected to a graduated scale enabling the measurement of systolic and
diastolic blood pressure by increasing than gradually releasing the pressure in the cuff
18. stethoscope
Answer
A medical instrument used to listen to someone's heart or breath- ing. This instrument has a
diaphragm and bell side along with two earpieces
19. Korotkoff sounds
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Generated when a blood pressure cuff changes the flow of blood through the artery
20. Vital signs
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Clinical measurements that indicate the state of a patients essential body functions including
pulse rate , temperature, respiration rate and blood pres- sure
21. Hypertensive
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abnormally high BP
22. hypotensive
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abnormally low BP
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