University Of Arizona College Of Nursing

explore the pathophysiology of common and complex diseases affecting different systems in the body, including cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, gastrointestinal, endocrine, and neurological systems.

What is Health Assessment? - ANS Requires the use of: hearing,seeing,smelling,and touching Nursing is a practice profession Health assessment is an essential skill to nursing practice A key goal of health assessment is to identify patient cure for normal and abnormal findings Person-centered care is the ultimate goal of health assessment What is the definition of Health? - ANS Health has different meaning for each individual, family, community, and population Nurse s...

OLDCARTS - ANS For pain assessment O: Onset L: Location D: Duration C: Character A: aggravating/relieving R: radiation T: timing S: severity ADPIE - ANS for Critical Thinking + Clinical Judgement Assess: 1st step, subjective and objective data Diagnosis: analysis, formulation of nursing diagnosis Planning: prioritize problems, determine goals, plan of care Intervention: nursing action (rather than medical action) Evaluate: compare outcomes, communic...

What are the two types of interviewing techniques? - ANS 1) standardized formats- framework of gathering info about patient 2) therapeutic techniques- create an environment where patient can open up What should you include in therapeutic communication? - ANS 1) introduce yourself and the parts of the assessment 2) determine what the client wants to be called 3) allow more time for reponses for older adults 4) make sure client is comfortable (room temp, chair) 5) ...

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