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NURS 2518 Midterm Exam Questions And Correct Answers
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NURS 2518 Midterm Exam Questions AndCorrect Answers
Risk factors - Answer conditions that increase the risk of the older adult to negative
health outcomes
Geriatric syndromes - Answer health states that tend to occur only in later life that do
not fall into discrete disease categories
Functional ability - Answer the cognitive, social, physical and emotional abilities to carry
out the normal activities of life
Function - Answer the neutral or positive interaction between a persons health and the
performance of social and physical activities
Disability - Answer the negative aspects of the persons health, social and environmental
condition that is determining the performance of the individual
Impairment - Answer physical abnormality that underlies the limitation of disability
Frailty - Answer a condition in which the body has few reserves and any change cause
cause health problems
Symptoms of frailty - Answer unintentional weight loss, weakness, exhaustion, slowness
and low levels of physical activity
Shifting perspective model of chronic illness - Answer wellness in the foreground,
moving in the direction of wellness (instead of away from illness)
, ADLs - Answer eating, toileting, ambulation, bathing, dressing and grooming
IADLs - Answer cleaning, yard work, shopping, managing money, taking medications
Katz index - Answer ranks ADL skills has independent, assistive or dependent
Barthel index - Answer more specific description of type of assistance needed with
ADLs
Functional independence measure - Answer measures mobility, cognition, social
functioning and ADLs
Minimum data set (MDS) - Answer completed for 14 days after resident admission into
PCH and ranks as independent, set up assistance, supervision, limited assistance, 1-2
person assist, 1-2 person dependence
Ageism - Answer the prejudices and stereotypes that are applied to older people bases
on their age
Personhood - Answer a standing or status that is put upon one person, by others, in the
context of relationship and social being
Kitwoods holistic model of the person living with dementia - Answer peoples abilities are
as much related to their environment than the abilities of their brain
Pillars of Kitwoods holistic model of the person with dementia - Answer Neurological
impairment, health & physical fitness, life history, personality, social psychology
Excess disability - Answer patient losing ability to do ADLs because they stop doing
them
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