Nursing 155 exam 1
Action stage - ✅✅ -Occurs when the person actively implements behavioral and
cognitive strategies
Acute illness -✅✅-Characterized by symtpoms of relatively short duration
Adaptability - ✅✅-Nurse needs to alter spoken messages, meaning the nurse
is looking for cues from the pt to see if they are understanding. & altering the way
she delivers information
✅✅-Restore ability of the person to be able to cope
Adaptive model -
Adherence - ✅✅-The extent to which an individuals behavior coincide with
medical advice
Afebrile -✅✅-without fever
Agent-host model - ✅✅-Predicting illness, or anything that can lead to illness
Airborne isolation - ✅✅-N95 , private room, negative pressure, limit enter\exit
Angle of Louis - ✅✅-Junction between the body of the sternum and the
manubrium
Aortic heart sound - ✅✅-Right side , 2nd intercostal space
Apical pulse - ✅✅-Central pulse
Apnea - ✅✅-Absence of breathing
Arterial blood pressure - ✅✅-Measure of the pressure exerted by the blood as
it flows through the arteries
Asepsis - ✅✅-absence of pathogenic microorganisms
, Asphasia - ✅✅ -Any defect in or the loss of the power to express oneself by
speech, writing, or signing or to comprehend spoken or written language
Asphyxiation - ✅✅-suffocation
bicuspid (mitral) valve sound - ✅✅-Midclavicular line 5th intercostal space
Biologic dimension (internal variable) - ✅✅-Things you cannot change: gender,
age, developmental level
Bioterrorism - ✅✅-the use of biological and chemical weapons in terrorist
attacks
✅✅-The bag that inflates with air
Bladder of BP cuff -
Blood viscosity - ✅✅-thickness of blood
Blood volume - ✅✅-Equals the sum of the formed elements and plasma
volumes in the vascular system
Boundary - ✅✅-A real or imaginary line that differentiates one system from
another
Bradycardia -✅✅-abnormally slow heart rate less than 60 bpm
bradypnea - ✅✅-Abnormally slow breathing
Bruit - ✅✅-A blowing or swishing sound
Cardiac output - ✅✅-The volume of blood ejected from the left side of the heart
in one minute.
Care plan - ✅✅-Helps the pt reach their goal, steps to take to make that
happen.
Cataracts - ✅✅-opacity of lens
Action stage - ✅✅ -Occurs when the person actively implements behavioral and
cognitive strategies
Acute illness -✅✅-Characterized by symtpoms of relatively short duration
Adaptability - ✅✅-Nurse needs to alter spoken messages, meaning the nurse
is looking for cues from the pt to see if they are understanding. & altering the way
she delivers information
✅✅-Restore ability of the person to be able to cope
Adaptive model -
Adherence - ✅✅-The extent to which an individuals behavior coincide with
medical advice
Afebrile -✅✅-without fever
Agent-host model - ✅✅-Predicting illness, or anything that can lead to illness
Airborne isolation - ✅✅-N95 , private room, negative pressure, limit enter\exit
Angle of Louis - ✅✅-Junction between the body of the sternum and the
manubrium
Aortic heart sound - ✅✅-Right side , 2nd intercostal space
Apical pulse - ✅✅-Central pulse
Apnea - ✅✅-Absence of breathing
Arterial blood pressure - ✅✅-Measure of the pressure exerted by the blood as
it flows through the arteries
Asepsis - ✅✅-absence of pathogenic microorganisms
, Asphasia - ✅✅ -Any defect in or the loss of the power to express oneself by
speech, writing, or signing or to comprehend spoken or written language
Asphyxiation - ✅✅-suffocation
bicuspid (mitral) valve sound - ✅✅-Midclavicular line 5th intercostal space
Biologic dimension (internal variable) - ✅✅-Things you cannot change: gender,
age, developmental level
Bioterrorism - ✅✅-the use of biological and chemical weapons in terrorist
attacks
✅✅-The bag that inflates with air
Bladder of BP cuff -
Blood viscosity - ✅✅-thickness of blood
Blood volume - ✅✅-Equals the sum of the formed elements and plasma
volumes in the vascular system
Boundary - ✅✅-A real or imaginary line that differentiates one system from
another
Bradycardia -✅✅-abnormally slow heart rate less than 60 bpm
bradypnea - ✅✅-Abnormally slow breathing
Bruit - ✅✅-A blowing or swishing sound
Cardiac output - ✅✅-The volume of blood ejected from the left side of the heart
in one minute.
Care plan - ✅✅-Helps the pt reach their goal, steps to take to make that
happen.
Cataracts - ✅✅-opacity of lens
