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NURS 309 Exam #1 Study Guide Questions With CompleteSolutions
Define mental disorder. Correct Answers -clinically significant
behavioral emotional or cognitive syndrome that is associated w/
significant distress or disability involving social, occupational,
or key activities
Define mental status. Correct Answers -a person's emotional
and cognitive functioning
-optimal functioning aims toward simultaneous life satisfaction
in work, caring relationships, and w/n self
-strikes balance b/n good and bad days, allowing person to
function socially and occupationally
Define mental status. Correct Answers -cannot be scrutinized
directly like the characteristis of skin or heart sounds
-functioning interferred through assessment of individual's
behavior:
>consciousness, language, mood, and affect
>orientation and attention
>memory and abstract reasoning
>thought process, through content, perception
Describe acculturation. Correct Answers -process of adopting
the culture and behavior of majority culture
-assimilation: unidirectional in linear fashion
-biculturalism + integration: allow for reciprocal change and
maintaining ethnic identity
-acculturative stress: based on input from environment,
social/interpersonal and societal
,Describe achondroplastic dwarfism. Correct Answers -genetic
-normal trunk
-short arms and legs
-short stature
Describe acromegaly (hyperpituitarism). Correct Answers -
adult: increased face, head, hands, feet size
Describe anorexia nervosa. Correct Answers -psychological
life threatening, weight loss and amenorrhea
Describe auscultation technique. Correct Answers -eliminate
extra noise
-keep environment warm and warm stethoscope
-avoid listening over hairy body areas
-never listen through patient's gown or clothing
-avoid your own artifact
Describe auscultation. Correct Answers -stethoscope doesn't
magnify sound, blocks out extraneous sounds
-diaphragm: flat edge, high pitched sounds
-bell: deep, hollow cuplike shape, soft pitched sounds
-turnable diaphragms: allows you to listen to both high pitched
and soft pithced sounds
Describe characteristics of culture. Correct Answers -*learned*
from birth through process of language acquisition and
socialization
-*shared* by all members of the same cultural group
, -*adapted* to specific conditions r/t environmental and technical
factors in the context of available resources
-*dynamic* interphase that is ever changing
Describe Cushing syndrome. Correct Answers -weight gain
-edema
-cervical obesity
-moon face
-bruising
-fragile skin
Describe determinants of health. Correct Answers -
neighborhood and built environment, health/health care,
social/community context, education, economic stability
-constellation of related factors
-affect person from preconception to death
-EBP indicates poverty has greatest influence on health status
Describe ethnicity. Correct Answers -social group w/ shared
traits
-ethnic identity: self-identification w/ particular ethnic group
-share geographic origin, migratory status, religion, race,
language, values, traditions, symbols, food preferences
Describe gigantism. Correct Answers -childhood
-too much growth hormone
Describe how to use different body parts for palpation. Correct
Answers -fingertips: texture, swelling, pulsations
-fingers and thumb: mass, lump, enlarged organ
-dorsa (back) of hands and fingers: skin temperature
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