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NUR 102
Vocabulary for Final ( Basic Nursing 7th Edition) Fall 2012
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A person's definition and interpretation of symptoms anduse of the health care system | Illness behavior |
| A belief that patients have the authority to be active participants in determining their health and well-being | Holistic behavior |
| Longer than 6 months' duration | Chronic illness |
| A subjective concept of physical appearance | Body image |
| Developmental stage, intellectual background, emotional and spiritual factors | Internal variables |
| Short term and severe | Acute illness |
| Addresses the relationship between a person's beliefs and behaviors | Health belief model |
| Nationwide health insurance program that provides benefits to individuals older than 65 years of age | Medicare |
| Intergration of best knowledge, clinical expertise, and patient values | Evidence-based |
| Fixed amount of payment for services per enrollee | Capitation |
| Short-term relief for persons providing care to ill, disabled | Respite care |
| Income eligibility for covers below the federal poverty level | Medicaid |
| Patient responses directly related to nursing care | Nursing-sensitive outcomes |
| Administrative control over primary health care services practice for a defined patient population | Managed care |
| Worldwide in scope | Globalization |
| Multidisciplinary treatment plan that patients need for aspecific condition | Critical pathway |
| A program to recognize health care organization that achieve excellence in nursing practice | Magnet status |
| Completed when anything unusual happens that could potentially cause harm to a patient, visitor, or employee | Incident report |
| Any willful attempt or treat to harm another person | Assault |
| A civil wrong or injury for which remedy is in the form of money damages | Tort |
| A crime of a serious nature that usually carries a penalty of imprisonment | Felony |
| Limitation of liability for health care professionals offering assistance at the scene of an acsident | Good Samaritan law |
| Conduct that falls below the standard of care | Negligence |
| Any intentional touching of another person's body without consent | Battery |
| A form of contemporary laws created by elected legislative bodies | Statutory law |
| Documents instructing physicians to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining procedures | Living wills |
| A form of contemporary law created by judicial decision in court when cases are decided | Common law |
| Process of recalling an event to determine its meaning and purpose | Reflection |
| Series of clinical judgments that result in informal or formal diagnoses | Diagnostic reasoning |
| End point of critical thinking that leads to problem resolution | Decision making |
| Inner sensing that something is so | Intuition |
| Process that moves from observable facts from an experience to a reasonable explanation of those facts | Scientific method |
| unintended effect of a medication, diagnostic test, or intervention | Adverse reaction |
| Observations or measurements made by the nurse during assessment | Objective data |
| Comparing data with another source to determine accuracy and relevancy | Validation |
| Multidisciplinary, outcome-based care plan | Critical pathway |
| Clinical judgement about patient responses to health prolems or life processes | Nursing diagnosis |
| Information obtained through the senses | Cue |
| Activities performed in the course of a normal day | ADLs |
| Support for why a specific nursing action is chosen | Scientific rationale |
| Interpretation of cues | Inference |
| Information verbally provided by the patient | Subjective data |
| An oral or written exchange of information between health care providers | Report |
| Information about patients rovided only to appropriate personnel | Confidentiality |
| Permanent written communication with patient's health care management | Record |
| Structured method of documentation with emphasis on the patient's problems | POMR |
| Documentation that requires staff to identify intervntions and allows patients to be compared with one another | Acuity recording |
| Person who initiates interpersonal communication | Sender |
| Information sent or expressed by the sender | Message |
| Means of conveying messages | Channels |
| Person to whom the message is sent | Receiver |
| Indicates whether the meaning of the sender's message was received | Feedback |
| Motivates one person to communicate with another | Referent |
| Shades or interpretations of a word's meaning rather than different definitions | Connotations |
| Tone of the speaker's voice that may affect a message's meaning | Intonation |
| A message within a message that conveys a sender's attitude toward the self and toward the listender | Metacommunication |
| Development of a working, functional relationship by the nurse with the patient, fulfilling the purposes of the nursing process | Therapeutic communication |
| Arise from microorganisms outside the patient | Exogenous infection |
| Cellular response to injury or infection | Inflammation |
| Microorganisms that cause another infection because they are resistant to antibiotics | Suprainfection |
| Infection that developed that was not present at the time of patient admission | Health care-associated infection |
| Methods to reduce or eliminate disease-producing microorganisms | Aseptic technique |
| Microorganisms that do not cause disease but help to maintain health | Flora |
| Process that eliminates all forms of microbial life | Sterilization |
| Disease-producing microorganism | Pathogen |
| Substance formed through the inflammatory process that may ooze from openings in the skin or mucous membranes | Exudate |
| Microorganism that grows but does not cause disease | Colonization |
| Ability of microoganisms to produce diease | Virulence |
| Being more than normally vulnerable to a disease | Susceptibility |
| Alteration of a patient's flora with a resulting overgrowth | Endogenous infection |
| Decrease of systolic and diastolic pressures below normal | Hypotension |
| Another word for fever | Febrile |
| Rate and depth torespirations increase | Hyperventilation |
| Widening of blood vessels | Vasodilation |
| Pulse rate less than 60 beats per minute for an adult | Bradycardia |
| 140/90 mm Hg for two or more readings | Hypertension |
| Rate of breathing abnormally rapid | Tachypnea |
| Decreased body temperature | Hypothermia |
| No resirations for several seconds | Apnea |
| Rate of breathing abnormally slow | Bradypnea |
| Normal breathing | Eupnea |
| Temporary disappearance of sounds between Korotkoff sounds | Auscultatory gap |
| Process of adapting to and adopting a new culture | Acculturation |
| Shared identity related to social and cultural heritage | Ethnicity |
| Tendency to categorize people into particular pattern without further assessment | Stereotyping |
| Attitudes associating negative characteristics to people perceived to be different from oneself | Prejudices |
| Integrated patterns of human behavior, including language, customs, and beliefs | Culture |
| Common biological characteristics shared by a group of people | Race |
| Cognitive stance or perspective about phenomena characteristic of a particular cultural group | Worldview |
| Giving up ethnic identity in favor of the dominant culture | Assimilation |
| Holding one's own way of life as superior to other | Ethnocentrism |
| Distinct discipline focused on the comparative study of cultures to understand similarities | Transcultural nursing |
| Does not believe in the existence of a supreme spiritual being or god | Atheist |
| Cultural or institutional religion | Faith |
| Awareness of one's inner self and a sense of connection to a higher being | Spirituality |
| Belief that ultimate reality in unknown or unknowable | Agnostic |
| having close spiritual relationships with oneself, others, and a god or other spiritual being | Connectedness |
| Development of cognition | Piaget |
| Psychosexual focus | Freud |
| Based on human needs | Maslow |
| Moral development | Kohlberg |
| Psychosocial development | Erikson |
| Set of conscious and unconscious feelings and beliefs about oneself | Self-concept |
| Set of behaviors that have been approved by family, community, and culture as appropriate in particular situations | Role |
| Clear, persistent preference for persons of one sex | Sexual orientation |
| Emotional evluation of self-worth | Self-esteem |
| experiences and attitudes related to appearance and physical abilities | body image |
| sense of femaleness or maleness | sexuality |
| irrational fear of homosexuality | homophobia |
| persistent individuality and sameness of a person over time and in various circumstances | identity |
| increasing flexibility of family's boundaries to include children's independence | family with adolescents |
| accepting parent-offspring separation | unattached young adult |
| accepting shifting of generational roles | family in later life |
| committing to a new system | newly married couple |
| accepting a multitude of exits from and entries into the family system | family with young adults |
| awareness of the position of the body and its parts | proprioception |
| resistance that moving body meets from the surface on which it moves | friction |
| manner or style of walking | gait |
| lying face up | supine |
| lying face down | prone |
| movement of the foot where the toes point upward | dorsiflexion |
| maintenance of optimal body poisition | posture |
| body alignment during walking, turning, lefting or carrying | body mechanics |
| mobility of the joint | range of motion |
| inflammation of the skin characterized by abrupt onset with erythema, pruritus, pain and scaly oozing lesions | contact dermatitis |
| thickened portion of the peidermis, usually flat and painless on the undersurface of the foot or hand | callus |
| inflammation of the tissue surrounding the nail | paronychia |
| scraping or rubbing away of the epidermis, resulting in localized bleeding | abrasion |
| keratosis caused by friction and pressure from shoes, mainly on toes | corn |
| fungating lesion that appears on the sole of the foot | plantar wart |
| loss of hair | alopecia |
| collapse of alveoli, preventing exchange of oxygen | atelectasis |
| tachypnea pattern of breathing associated with metabolitc acidosis | kussmaul respiration |
| need to sit upright to breathe easier | orthopnea |
| collection of air in the pleural space | pneumothorax |
| bloody sputum | hemoptysis |
| inadequate tissue oxygenation at the cellular level | hypoxia |
| amount of blood in the ventricles at the end of diastole | preload |
| collection of blood in the pleural space | hemothorax |
| resistance of ejection of blood from the left ventricle | after load |
| difficulty breathing, sensation of breathlessness | dyspnea |
| cessation of breathing for periods of time during sleep | sleep apnea |
| a decrease in the amount, quality, and consistency of sleep | sleep deprviation |
| awaking at night to urinate | nocturia |
| sudden muscle weakness during intense emotions | cataplexy |
| difficulty falling or staying asleep | insomnia |
| 24-hour day/night cycle | circadian rhythm |
| disorder that produces abnormal behavior or emotions | parasomnia |
| excessive sleepiness during the day | sleep apnea |
| local anesthesia, with minimal sedation, given between the vertebrae | epidural infusion |
| unpleasnat, subjective sensory and emotional experience | pain |
| partial or complete disappearance of symptoms | remission |
| extends from the point of injury to another body area | radiating pain |
| rapid onset, lasts briefly | acute pain |
| localized, sharp sensation resulting from stimulation of the skin | superficial pain |
| increase in the severity of symptoms | exacerbation |
| classiication of medication used from pain relief | analgesic |
| prolonged, varying in intensity | chronic pain |
| diffuse, radiating, and varying in intesnity from dull to sharp | visceral pain |
| increase in blood glucose level | hyperglycemia |
| breakdown of food products into smaller particles | digestion |
| production of more complex chemical substances through the synthesis of nutrients | anabolism |
| all biochemical and physological processes by which the body maintains itselfe | metabolism |
| organic substances in food that are present in small amounts and act as coenzymes in biochemical reactions | vitamins |
| inorganic elements that act as catalysis in biochemical reactions | minerals |
| substances necessary for body functioning | nutrients |
| breakdown of complex body substances into simpler substances | catabolism |
| decrease in blood glucse level | hypoglycemia |
| measurement of size and makeup of body at specific sites | anthropometry |
| accumulation of urine in the bladder because of inability to empty bladder completely | retention |
| painful or difficult urination | dysuria |
| diffuculty in initating urination | hesitancy |
| volume of urine remaining in the bladder after voiding | residual urine |
| feeling the need to void immediately | urgency |
| voiding large amounts of urine | polyuria |
| urination, particularly excessive, at night | nocturia |
| presnece of blood in the urine | hematuria |
| voiding very often | frequency |
| diminished urinary output in relation to fluid intake | oliguria |
| propulsion of food throught eh gastrointestional tract | peristalsis |
| agent used to empty the bowel | cathartic |
| artificial opening in the abdominal wall | stoma |
| dilated rectal veins | hemorrhoids |
| blood in the stool | melena |
| contraction of abdominal muscles, while forcing expiration against a closed airway | Valsalva maneuver |
| characterized by bone resorption | disuse osteoporosis |
| TEMPORARY DECREASE IN BLODO SUPPLY TO AN ORGAN OR TISSUE | ISCHEMIA |
| capacity to maneuver around freely | mobility |
| permanent plantar flexion | footdrop |
| lung inflammation from stasis or pooling of secretions | hypostatic penumonia |
| increased urine excretion | diuresis |
| collapse of alveoli | atelectasis |
| bathing, dressing, eating | activities of daily living |
| calcium stones in teh kidney | renal calculi |
| accumulation of platelets, fibrin, clotting factors, and cellular elements attached to the interior wall of an artery or vein | thrombus |
| locaized collection of blood under the tissues | hematoma |
| separation of wound layers with protrusion of visceral organs | evisceration |
| wound edges come together | approximate |
| superficial loss of dermis | abrasion |
| pressure excerted against the skin when the patient is moved | shearing force |
| general poor health and malnutrition with weakness and emaciation | cachexia |
| removal of devitalized tissue | debridement |
| torn, jagged damage to dermis and epidermis | laceration |
| separation of skin and tissue layers | dehiscence |
| abnormal passage between two body organs or between an organ and the outside of the body | fistula |
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