critical thinking - ✅✅cognitive process of analysing thoughts and skills
clinical reasoning - ✅✅analysing health information and draw conclusions to find the problem-->
critical thinking in clinical setting
clinical judgement - ✅✅critical thinking and clinical reasoning to identify and address the problem
pharmacodynamics - ✅✅study of effects of medications mechanism of action on body
pharmacokinetics - ✅✅effects of body on medication
4 factors of pharmacokinetics - ✅✅absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion
schedule 4 restricted and example - ✅✅dependent medication- tramadol
schedule 8 medication and example - ✅✅controlled (addictive) medication- morphine
pain assessment - ✅✅provoking, quality, radiation, severity, time
physiology of nociception - ✅✅physiological process which communicates information regarding
tissue damage to the CNS
4 processes of nociception - ✅✅transduction, transmission, perception, modulation
transduction - ✅✅noxious stimuli causing cell damage with release of sensitising chemicals that
activate nociceptors and lead to generation of action potential