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What is cognitive learning?
All intellectual behaviors and requires thinking. Starts with aquiring knowledge and ends with evaluation.
What is Knowledge?
Acquiring new facts or information and being able to recall them.
What is Comprehension?
The ability to understand the meaning of learned material.(Client can say how med. will help)
What is application?
Using abstract, newly learned ideas in a concrete situation. (client can make a schedule to take meds on time)
What is analysis?
Breaking down information into organized parts. Allows a person to discriminate important from unimportant information.
What is Synthesis?
The ability to apply knowledge and skills to produce a new whole. (client can take preventative steps towards s.e.)
What is evaluation?
Judgment of the worth of a body of information for a given purpose. (client can recognize need for more info)
What is receiving?
Willing to attend to another person's words. Willing to listen and maintain eye contact.
What is responding?
Involves active participation through listening and reacting verbally and nonverbally.
WHat is Valuing?
Attaching worth to an object or behavior. Learner is motivated to act out the behavior.
What is organizing?
Developing a value system by identifying and organizing values and resolving conflicts. CLient learns to accept changes and participate.
What is perception?
Being aware of objects or qualities through the use of sence organs. (a person who had a stroke learns how to use there walker over different ground surfaces.)
What is Set?
Readiness to take a particularaction. 3 types of sets are physical, mental and emotional. (1st time a pt. gets up and walks from a w/c)
What is guided response?
when you imitate a demonstration. like watching your teacher do an insulin shot and then you do one.
What is Mechanism?
A type of behavior that the person gains confidence and skills from preforming them.
What is complex overt response?
When a person preforms a complex movement pattern smoothly and with accuracy.
What is adaptation?
Person is able to change a motor response when an unexpected problem arises. (When new breastfeeding moms return to work)
What is orgination?
When you create your own movement patterns. (original movement)
What is attentional set?
Mental state that allows the learner to focus on and comprehend a learning activity (i.e using metal pictures)
What is motivation?
A force that occurs within a person to cause them to behave a certain way.
What is compliance?
A clients adherence to the prescribed course of therapy.
What is self-efficacy?
Social learning that refers to a person's view on if they can successfully complete a task.
What is active participation?
When a client is actively involved in the educational session.
What is functional illiteracy?
the inablity to read above the 5th grade level.
What is congruence?
The ideal condition of all systems. System's patterns and rhythem's are in harmony with eachother. (attempted but never reached.ideal rather than reality)
What are the 2 process to achieve control?
1) system maintenance
2) system change.
What is system maintenance?
When a perspn uses self-care to nurture the body and mind and meet thier physical, psychological and social needs.
What is system change?
Strategies by a person to adapt to changes; ie. seeking medical care, planning, activity and diet, channel energy.
What is individuation?
Stiving to connect and become a part of something outside of oneself, through integration of knowledge, adjustment of values and alteration of behaviors.
What is faith?
An individual's belief in somehting for which there is no proof.
What is S.R.S.
Sexual response cycle.
What are the 3 stages of S.R.S.
Desire, arousal, and orgasm.
What bacteria causes syphilis?
bacterium treponema pallidum. cnnot be spread throug contact with toilet seats, doorknobs, swimming pools, hot tubes, shared clothing, or eating utensils.
What is the primary stage of syphilis?
Marked by the appearence of a single sore called a chancre (may be multiple)occurs 10-90 days after infection. Chancre is usually round, small, and painless. lasts 3-6 weeks and heals with without treatment.
What is the second stage of syphilis?
Skin rash and mucous membrane lesions. Can occur as the chancre is healing or several weeks after. may include rough, redish brown spots on both the palms of the hands and bottom of feet. May include fever, swollen lymph glands, sore throat, patchy hair loss, headaches, weight loss, muscle aches, and fatigue. can resolve without treatment.
What is the late stage of syphilis? (latent)
hidden stage begins when the 2nd symptoms disapear. Causes internal damage.can infect and cause difficulty coordinating muscle movements, paralysis, numbness, gradual blindness, and dementia. damage may cause death.
What is PACU?
Post anesthesia care unit.
What PACU score must a patient have before being discharged?
8-10
How often must you take vitals with post op care?
every 4 hours.
What are the 6 chain involved int he chain of infection?
1) infectious agent or pathogen
2)a reservoir or source for pathogen growth.
3)A portal of exit from the resevoir
4) A mode of transmission
5) portal of entry to host
6) a susceptible host.
What are the four modes of transmission for infection?
Contact- direct, indirect, droplet.
Air- droplet
Vehicles- contaminated items, water, drugs, blood, or food
Vector- flies, parasites, mosquitoes, ticks, fleas.
What is good about inflammation?
It is a protection responsive agianst infection and causes tissure repair.
What are the two types of nosocromial infections?
Exogenous- micro-organisms that are external to the individual that do not exist as normal flora
Endogenous- part of the clients flora is altered and an overgrowth results.
What is asepsis
Absence of pathogenic disease.
What is medical asepsis>
a clean technique
Is pain physical?
NO
What does nociceptive mean?
activates an action potential.
Waht are the 4 process of nociceptive pain?
transduction, transmission, perception, and modulation.
can a pt. discriminate between the 4 process of nociceptive pain?
NO,
Why is it important for a nurse to understand the porcess that causes pain?
To recognize factors that cause pain, signs and symptoms, rational and action of selected therapys
What is transduction?
Energy conversion.
What is transmission?
impulse of pain (tells brain)
How can pain be categorized?
duration of pathology.
What does pseudo addiction mean?
"Doctor shopper"
What does idiopathic pain mean?
chronic, no identifiable, physical, or physiological cause, or pain perceived as excessive for extent of organic pathologial condition.
Do all cancer patients have pain?
no
What type of pain might a cancer patient have?
Acute, chronic, neuropathic, or nociceptive.
What is neuropathic pain?
Abnormal processing f sensory input for the peripheral and CNS.
What is a value?
A personal belief about the worth of an idea, attitude, custom, or object.
What are ethics?
The study of philosophical ideals of right and wrong behavior.
What are the seven steps of ethical analysis toa clinical situation?
1- is this an ethical delimma?
2- gather all the informaiton relevent to the case
3- examine and determine your own values on the issue.
4- verbalize the problem
5- consider possible course of action
6- negotiate the outcome.
7- evaluate the actions
What are the 4 components of self-concept?
identity, body image, role performance, and self-esteem.
What is identity?
internal sense of individuality, wholeness, and consistency of a person over time and in various circumstances.
What is body image?
Attitude related to the body, including physical appearance, structure, or function.
What is role preformance?
The way an individual perceives his or her ability to carry out significant roles.
What is self-esteem?
An individual's overall sense of self-worth of the emotional appraisal of self-concept.