NURS 256 exam 1
1. nursing is ____: The diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual and potential health problems
2. critical thinking: being able to apply and analyze a situation to make the best one
3. some barriers to decision making: cultures, language barriers, what is subjective but what you observe
4. recognizing cues: what information is important and what is immediate concern 5. analyzing cues: organizing and
linking the recognized cues to clients presentation
6. clinical judgment: asses, planning, implementing, and evaluating
7. chronic pain: over 6 months
8. what are the types of nocicpetive pain?: somatic, visceral, and cutaneous
9. somatic pain: bones, tendons, joints, usually you can point to where it is at
10. visceral: organs, diffused pain, and non specific ex: gallbladder but pain in the middle back
11. cutaneous pain: superficial pain usually involving the skin or subcutaneous tissue like a papercut
12. neuropathic: burning and tingling like below spinal chord injury, or diabetic peripheral neuropathy
13. baker scale: has faces with numbers
14. facc: for nonverbal patients
15. SBAR (communication tool): Situation
Background
Assessment
Recommendation
16. IOM examples of medical errors: miscommunication is the biggest error. Some examples are wrong spot for surgery,
adverse drug effects, and patient falls
17. specialty care systems: code team, rapid response, stroke
18. credability: your appearance
19. intonation: how you come across and say
20. solar posture: sit, open faced, lean forward and eye contact
21. techniques to enhance interview: active listening, and clarification
22. barriers to an effect interview: interrupting, and avoid using why situations 23. primary prevention: Efforts to
prevent an injury or illness from ever occurring.
like education or programs
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24. secondary prevention: identifying the illness and providing treatment like screenings or pap smears
25. tertiary prevention: prevent long term consequences of a chronically ill patient so like support groups or rehab
26 screening: things like blood pressure, cholesterol screening, mamo gram, or a breast exam
27. comprehensive assessment: in detail like a head to toe assessment, physicals, or an admission to a facility
28. problem based or focused assessment: just one thing getting looked at like complaint of ankle pain
29. episodic assesment: would be follow up or related to chronic disease management
30. average temp for adult: 36-38 celsius
31. when is a temperature the lowest?: in the morning
32. when do you have the highest temperature: afternoon at 1600
33. What equals body temperature?: heat produced - heat lost 34. What are the 10 pulse points?: temporal carotid
jugular brachial radial ulnar femoral popliteal posterior tibial dorsalis pedis
35. factors that effect boy temperature: age, exercise, stress, environment
36. fever: pyrexia
37. pyrogens: viruses
38. hyperthermia results from: trauma to the hypothalamus
39. malignant hypothermia: caused by an adverse reaction to anesthesia
40. the red probe is for: rectal
41. what is the most accurate temperature to take: rectal
42. axillary: not recommended for adults because it is inaccurate
43. to take an ear temp, you must wait how long to take it?: 2-3 minutes
44. What does the diaphragm do?: transmits low pitched sounds heart and vascular sounds
45. what does the bell do?: transmits high pitched sounds (bowel lung and heart)
46. for pulse you describe it as: slow, rapid, or irregular
47. Pulse average for adult: 60-100
48. tachy: is over 100 bpm
49. brady: less than 6 bpm
50. for rhythm of pulse you describe it as: irregular or regulars
51 dysrhythmia: Abnormal heart rhythm
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1. nursing is ____: The diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual and potential health problems
2. critical thinking: being able to apply and analyze a situation to make the best one
3. some barriers to decision making: cultures, language barriers, what is subjective but what you observe
4. recognizing cues: what information is important and what is immediate concern 5. analyzing cues: organizing and
linking the recognized cues to clients presentation
6. clinical judgment: asses, planning, implementing, and evaluating
7. chronic pain: over 6 months
8. what are the types of nocicpetive pain?: somatic, visceral, and cutaneous
9. somatic pain: bones, tendons, joints, usually you can point to where it is at
10. visceral: organs, diffused pain, and non specific ex: gallbladder but pain in the middle back
11. cutaneous pain: superficial pain usually involving the skin or subcutaneous tissue like a papercut
12. neuropathic: burning and tingling like below spinal chord injury, or diabetic peripheral neuropathy
13. baker scale: has faces with numbers
14. facc: for nonverbal patients
15. SBAR (communication tool): Situation
Background
Assessment
Recommendation
16. IOM examples of medical errors: miscommunication is the biggest error. Some examples are wrong spot for surgery,
adverse drug effects, and patient falls
17. specialty care systems: code team, rapid response, stroke
18. credability: your appearance
19. intonation: how you come across and say
20. solar posture: sit, open faced, lean forward and eye contact
21. techniques to enhance interview: active listening, and clarification
22. barriers to an effect interview: interrupting, and avoid using why situations 23. primary prevention: Efforts to
prevent an injury or illness from ever occurring.
like education or programs
1/6
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24. secondary prevention: identifying the illness and providing treatment like screenings or pap smears
25. tertiary prevention: prevent long term consequences of a chronically ill patient so like support groups or rehab
26 screening: things like blood pressure, cholesterol screening, mamo gram, or a breast exam
27. comprehensive assessment: in detail like a head to toe assessment, physicals, or an admission to a facility
28. problem based or focused assessment: just one thing getting looked at like complaint of ankle pain
29. episodic assesment: would be follow up or related to chronic disease management
30. average temp for adult: 36-38 celsius
31. when is a temperature the lowest?: in the morning
32. when do you have the highest temperature: afternoon at 1600
33. What equals body temperature?: heat produced - heat lost 34. What are the 10 pulse points?: temporal carotid
jugular brachial radial ulnar femoral popliteal posterior tibial dorsalis pedis
35. factors that effect boy temperature: age, exercise, stress, environment
36. fever: pyrexia
37. pyrogens: viruses
38. hyperthermia results from: trauma to the hypothalamus
39. malignant hypothermia: caused by an adverse reaction to anesthesia
40. the red probe is for: rectal
41. what is the most accurate temperature to take: rectal
42. axillary: not recommended for adults because it is inaccurate
43. to take an ear temp, you must wait how long to take it?: 2-3 minutes
44. What does the diaphragm do?: transmits low pitched sounds heart and vascular sounds
45. what does the bell do?: transmits high pitched sounds (bowel lung and heart)
46. for pulse you describe it as: slow, rapid, or irregular
47. Pulse average for adult: 60-100
48. tachy: is over 100 bpm
49. brady: less than 6 bpm
50. for rhythm of pulse you describe it as: irregular or regulars
51 dysrhythmia: Abnormal heart rhythm
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