NUR211 Exam 1 Study Guide
Define Diagnosis: analyzing patient data to identify
patient strengths and problems
Nursing practice acts
Planning: specifying patient outcomes and
• Define legal scope of nursing practice
related nursing interventions
• Create a state board of nursing to make
and enforce rules and regulations Implementation: carrying out the plan of care
• Define important terms and activities in
Evaluation: measuring extent to which patient
nursing, including legal requirements
achieved outcomes
and titles for RNs and LPNs
• Establish a criteria for the education Culture
and licensure of nurses
Defines what?
Culture defines values, dimension factors, and
Determine professional liability insurance rates. disparities
Information is not included when a reportable Culture shock
event is documented in the medical record: that
an incident report was not submitted Moving from another country, different
languages, different setting, work setting
Disease changes.
The medical term referring to pathologic Cultural diversity
changes in the structure or function of the body
or mind • Not all diversity is their religion or race
but poverty, spiritual distress, social
Health isolation, powerlessness, or
communication styles.
A state of complete physical, mental, and social
well-being, not merely the absence of disease • View the situation accept it
accommodate it respect it
Illness
• Assistance needed, including
Illness is the response of the person to a
translators, shaman, or from respected
disease: an abnormal process where the
family members.
person’s level of functioning is changed from
previous level
Four stages of Illness Behaviors: Stereotyping
1. Experiencing Symptoms One that assumes that all members of a culture,
2. Assuming the Sick Role ethnic group, and race act
3. Assuming a Dependent Role
4. Achieving Recovery and Rehabilitation Negative- includes racism, ageism, and
sexism
Nursing process steps in order
Different cultural consideration examples
Assessment: collecting, validating, and
communicating patient data • Muslim- No pork or alcohol, may need
accommodation for prayer needs, the
body of a married woman to be seen by
, any male other than her husband is not
allowed, and belief in Allah.
Immobility
• Asian- They prefer some distance
Effects with each body system
between themselves and others and
have minimum eye-contact (may not CVS: increased cardiac workload,
mean cannot hear, does not care, or is orthostatic hypotension, venous stasis
ignoring), use of herbs, diet, and hot
cold allows balance of energy(diseases Skeletal muscles can’t pump
are seen as cold or hot; if it is a ‘cold’ blood back to right side of heart
disease treat with hot foods), yin and adequately causing heart not to
yang. contract properly
• Haitian- Haitian folk healers are Thrombi formation= venous
requested to be allowed to come to the stasis
settings to heal broken bones etc.
Respiratory
• Jehovah’s Witnesses- NO blood
Decreased ventilator efforts and
products
increase respiratory secretions.
• Native American- Medicine men named
Decrease in depth and rate of
shaman are heavily used, high usage of
respirations = reduced need for
herbs, and high respect for age.
O2 enriched blood
Loss of tonus in muscles and
Different family structures pressure on chest wall
Family: any group of people who live Musculoskeletal system
together and depend on one another
for physical, emotional, and financial Atrophy (decreased muscle
support size), tone, strength
Nuclear family: traditional family; two Limited endurance, decrease
parents and their children ADLs, contractures, and
ankyloses (consolidation and
Extended family: includes aunts, uncles, immobilization of joint)
and grandparents
DON’T USE IT YOU LOSE IT
Blended family: two parents and their
unrelated children from previous Osteoporosis d/t bone
relationships formation decreases and
immobility increases = loss of
Single-parent family: may be separated, bone calculi, phosphorous, and
divorced, widowed, or never married bone matrix
Family functions: physical, economic, Brittle bones, calcium depletion
reproductive, affective/coping, and AEB arthropathy (joint disease),
socialization and renal calculi (stones)
Define Diagnosis: analyzing patient data to identify
patient strengths and problems
Nursing practice acts
Planning: specifying patient outcomes and
• Define legal scope of nursing practice
related nursing interventions
• Create a state board of nursing to make
and enforce rules and regulations Implementation: carrying out the plan of care
• Define important terms and activities in
Evaluation: measuring extent to which patient
nursing, including legal requirements
achieved outcomes
and titles for RNs and LPNs
• Establish a criteria for the education Culture
and licensure of nurses
Defines what?
Culture defines values, dimension factors, and
Determine professional liability insurance rates. disparities
Information is not included when a reportable Culture shock
event is documented in the medical record: that
an incident report was not submitted Moving from another country, different
languages, different setting, work setting
Disease changes.
The medical term referring to pathologic Cultural diversity
changes in the structure or function of the body
or mind • Not all diversity is their religion or race
but poverty, spiritual distress, social
Health isolation, powerlessness, or
communication styles.
A state of complete physical, mental, and social
well-being, not merely the absence of disease • View the situation accept it
accommodate it respect it
Illness
• Assistance needed, including
Illness is the response of the person to a
translators, shaman, or from respected
disease: an abnormal process where the
family members.
person’s level of functioning is changed from
previous level
Four stages of Illness Behaviors: Stereotyping
1. Experiencing Symptoms One that assumes that all members of a culture,
2. Assuming the Sick Role ethnic group, and race act
3. Assuming a Dependent Role
4. Achieving Recovery and Rehabilitation Negative- includes racism, ageism, and
sexism
Nursing process steps in order
Different cultural consideration examples
Assessment: collecting, validating, and
communicating patient data • Muslim- No pork or alcohol, may need
accommodation for prayer needs, the
body of a married woman to be seen by
, any male other than her husband is not
allowed, and belief in Allah.
Immobility
• Asian- They prefer some distance
Effects with each body system
between themselves and others and
have minimum eye-contact (may not CVS: increased cardiac workload,
mean cannot hear, does not care, or is orthostatic hypotension, venous stasis
ignoring), use of herbs, diet, and hot
cold allows balance of energy(diseases Skeletal muscles can’t pump
are seen as cold or hot; if it is a ‘cold’ blood back to right side of heart
disease treat with hot foods), yin and adequately causing heart not to
yang. contract properly
• Haitian- Haitian folk healers are Thrombi formation= venous
requested to be allowed to come to the stasis
settings to heal broken bones etc.
Respiratory
• Jehovah’s Witnesses- NO blood
Decreased ventilator efforts and
products
increase respiratory secretions.
• Native American- Medicine men named
Decrease in depth and rate of
shaman are heavily used, high usage of
respirations = reduced need for
herbs, and high respect for age.
O2 enriched blood
Loss of tonus in muscles and
Different family structures pressure on chest wall
Family: any group of people who live Musculoskeletal system
together and depend on one another
for physical, emotional, and financial Atrophy (decreased muscle
support size), tone, strength
Nuclear family: traditional family; two Limited endurance, decrease
parents and their children ADLs, contractures, and
ankyloses (consolidation and
Extended family: includes aunts, uncles, immobilization of joint)
and grandparents
DON’T USE IT YOU LOSE IT
Blended family: two parents and their
unrelated children from previous Osteoporosis d/t bone
relationships formation decreases and
immobility increases = loss of
Single-parent family: may be separated, bone calculi, phosphorous, and
divorced, widowed, or never married bone matrix
Family functions: physical, economic, Brittle bones, calcium depletion
reproductive, affective/coping, and AEB arthropathy (joint disease),
socialization and renal calculi (stones)
