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Health Assessment includes: - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔- Head to Toe
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- Health History
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- Cultural Assessment
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- Genetic/Family Assessment
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- Developmental considerations
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- Look at the risks and pattern of behaviors
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Steps of nursing process - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A: Assessment
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\| D: (nursing) Diagnosis
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\| I: Implementation
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\| E: Evaluation
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What to do during assessment - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Identify yourself,
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& then gather the necessary information.
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- Perform a physical assessment.
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- Obtain an accurate history.
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,- Review medical records & diagnostic tests.
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- Collaborate with entire health care team & the client's significant other, if
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appropriate.
Health promotion activities... - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔help maintain or
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enhance health. \| \|
ex: routine exercise, healthy diet
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Wellness education teaches - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔patients how to care
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for themselves.
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ex: stress management, self-responsibility
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Illness prevention activities... - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔protect against
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health threats & thus maintain an optimal level of health
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ex: immunization programs
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Health - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Balance of a person is a complex,
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interrelated phenomenon \|
- Within one's being: physical, mental, spiritual
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- In outside world: natural, communal, metaphysical
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,Illness - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔- Loss of a person's balance
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- Within one's being: physical, mental, spiritual
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- In outside world: natural, communal, metaphysical
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Primary Prevention - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔- True prevention that lowers
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the chances that a disease will develop
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- Health promotion (flu clinics, preventative screenings)
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- Vaccinations, screening for prostate, breast, & colon cancer
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Secondary Prevention - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔- Focuses on those who
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have a disease or are at risk to develop a disease
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- Diagnosis & prompt intervention
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- Provided in the hospital, home, health care facility, or skilled nursing facility
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tertiary prevention - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔- occurs when a defect or
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disability is permanent or irreversible
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- rehabilitation
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, - aims to help patients achieve as high a level of functioning as possible
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subjective data - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔What patient says about himself
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or herself during history taking
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objective data - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Observed when inspecting,
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percussing, palpating, & auscultating patient during physical examination
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database - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Formed from these elements (subjective
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and objective data), plus patient's record & laboratory studies
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sources of data from multiple sources include - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-
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Review of clinical record
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- Interview
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- Health history
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- Physical examination
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- Functional assessment
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- Cultural & spiritual assessment
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- Consultation
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- Review of the literature
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Sequential steps - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔- from novice to expert
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