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NUR 101 Test 11
- Patient Centered Care
Answer The responsiveness to individual preferences, needs, values and physical assessment findings ensuring that these considerations guide all clinical decisions, in addition to treating patients with respect and dignity as you would like to be treated. It requires feedback from the patient and his or her family in all aspects of care (Giddens,
- activities for daily living
Answer feeding, dressing, grooming, bathing, toileting
- Auscultation
Answer Listening with a stethoscope
- cyanosis
Answer a bluish discoloration of the skin resulting from poor circulation or inadequate oxygenation of the blood.
- diaphoresis
Answer excessive sweating
- Ecchymosis
Answer bruising of the skin
- edema 1 / 3
Answer Abnormal accumulation of fluid in interstitial spaces of tissues.
- erythema
Answer redness of the skin due to capillary dilation
- jaundice
Answer yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes caused by an accumulation of bile pigment (bilirubin) in the blood
- pallor
Answer Extreme or unnatural paleness
- Palpation
Answer an examination technique in which the examiner's hands are used to feel the texture, size, consistency, and location of certain body parts
- percussions
Answer when a physical uses a small hammer or tapping with his finger over the body to elicit sounds or vibratory sensation
- petechiae/purpura
Answer Hemorrhagic spots. Petechiae are pin sized, Purpura are larger.
- precordium
Answer 2 / 3
area of the chest wall overlying the heart and great vessels
- Turgor
Answer Elasticity of the skin
- Physical Assessment
Answer One method of gathering health data, An assessment can be a head-to-toe, focused, or system assessment. a collection of objective data that provides information about changes in the patient's body systems
- Purpose of physical assessment
- Assess the client's current health status
- Interpret physical data
- Decide on interventions based on data obtained (Data is both subjective and objective)
- detect early signs of health problems To establish a baslin efor future
- to evaluate the patients responses to medical or nursing intervention.
Answer
- 4 basic physical assessment techniques
- Inspection
- Percussion
- Palpation
- Auscultation
Answer
- Safety Assessment can include
- / 3
Answer bed position, call bell location, appropriate emergency equipment, assistive devices, fall risk/hazards
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