Nur 2220 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Health Promotion - Answer Process of enabling people to increase control over and improve health individual - Answer Health promotion moves beyond ______ Nursing Process - Answer Assessment, DIagnosis, Planning, Intervention, Evaulation Dunn definition of health - Answer dynamic process, optimal functioning Joint Commission - Answer Accreditation for hospitals Title II - Answer Disabilities Act Veracity - Answer Be truthful and accurate in charting and asse...

what is cranial nerve I and what is the function? - Answer -olfactory -Function: smell (1 nose) - Assessment: smell- coffee, cloves, peppermint what is cranial nerve II and what is the function and how would you asses for this? - Answer -optic -Function: vision (2 eyes) -Assessment: Visual acuity-Snellen chart (Cover eye not being examined). test for visual fields. Examine with ophthalmoscope what is cranial nerve III and what is the function and how would you assess for this?...

Spinal accessory nerve is assessed by - Answer Turn head/lift shoulders T/F a bruit is best heard with the diaphragm of the stethoscope - Answer False To inspect the ear with an otoscope, pull the pinna up and back on all the following patients except - Answer Young child The ossicle that makes contact with the tympanic membrane is the - Answer Maleus T/F The sub mental lymph nodes are associated with breast cancer - Answer False Which of the cranial nerves is respo...

Mrs. Angela Lasky is a 52-year-old Polish woman who has moved to the United States to be closer to her daughter. She has high blood pressure and diabetes mellitus, both of which require her to be on medication. She goes to the local health clinic every 2 weeks to have her blood pressure checked and blood glucose log reviewed to ensure that she is on the correct dosage of medications. Jeffrey is the nursing student who helps Mrs. Lasky in the clinic. Jeffrey takes her blood pressure, reviews her...

-begin in the late 19th century -came to the forefront in the early 20th century too address issues such as -high infant mortality, communicable disease, and childhood morbidity - Answer the emergence of community health nursing -individuals, families, groups, communities and populations -emphasis on creating environments that promote health - Answer today, CHNs work with -describe the scope & depth of nursing practice in community health - Answer the CCHN Standards of Prac...

What are the five Ps that affect the process of labor and birth? - Answer Passengers (fetus and placenta) Passageway (birth canal) Powers (contractions) Position of the mother Psychologic response pharmacologic pain management should be implemented before pain becomes? - Answer so severe that catecholamines increase and labor is prolonged nerve block analgesia and anesthesia - Answer local perineal infiltration anesthesia pudendal nerve block neuraxial anes...

What is an error of commission? - Answer doing the wrong thing What is an error of omission? - Answer not doing the right thing, or forgetting to do the right thing. what is an error of execution? - Answer doing the right thing incorrectly What is a communication error? - Answer usually a hand off report error A nurse gets two medications for two patients ready at the same time. The drug intended for one patient is given to another. this is an example of what kind of erro...

Characteristics of the nursing assessment (7) - Answer Purposeful Prioritized Complete Systematic Factual/accurate Relevant Recorded in a standard manner Nursing diagnosis - problem - Answer What is unhealthy about the patient Nursing diagnosis - etiology - Answer Determine what the problem is caused by or related to (R/T) - what is maintaining the unhealthy state Nursing diagnosis - defining characteristics - Answer The subjective and objective data that signal the ex...

family is... - Answer who they say they are family health is ... - Answer functioning of family as the primary social agent in the promotion of health and well-being individual and cooperative processes used by developing persons as to dynamically engage one another and their diverse environments over the life course the degree to which families are able to adapt to the social context in which they live what is family health nursing? - Answer •A provision of care where th...