Foundations Exam

Front 1

Faith: definition

Back 1

Relationship with a higher power/confidence in something for which there is no proof.

Front 2

Hope: definition

Back 2

Anticipating good, or an improvement

Front 3

What is the difference between family resiliency and hardiness?

Back 3

Family Resiliency: is the ability to cope with expected and unexpected stressors. (the ability to adapt).
Family Hardiness: is the internal strengths and durability of the family as a unit.

Front 4

What is cultural competent care:
Cultural awareness:
Cultural Knowledge:
Cultural Skills:
Cultural Encounters:

Back 4

Process in which the health care provider continually strives to work effectivley with individuals, families, and communities.
Cultural awareness: Gaining awareness of ones own background,stereotypes, biases, prejudices, and assumptions of other people.
Cultural Knowledge: Obtaining knowledge from other cultures.
Cultural Skills: Developing cultural skills (communication, and assessment)
Cultural Encounters: Gaining in depth understanding of others and avoiding sterotypes.

Front 5

Family Forms:
Nuclear family:
Extended Family:
Single Parent Family:
Blended Family:
Alternative patterns of relationships:

Back 5

Nuclear family: Husband,wife,one child
Extended Family: Includes relatives in addition to nuclear family.
Single Parent Family: When one parent leaves nuclear family.
Blended Family: formed when parents bring unrelated children from prior or foster relationships.
Alternative patterns of relationships: These relationships include multiadult households "skip generation" families. grandparents caring for grandchildren.

Front 6

Name different types of crisis (stressors) and examples of each.
Developmental:
Situational:
Existential:
Ecosystemic:

Back 6

Developmental: birth of a child, graduating
Situational: Job loss, Rape, car crash, terrorist attack
Existential: inner conflicts or anxieties
Ecosystemic: Naturally or a human caused disaster.
Effects of a crisis can last for years.

Front 7

What is sensory deprivation and what signs and symptoms should you look for?

Back 7

Occurs when inadequate quantity and quality of stimuli impairs perception.
S&S: Reduced sensory input (hearing loss)
Confusion
Restricted environment.
Can produce cognitive changes.

Front 8

Types of losses that a person can have a know some examples of each:

Back 8

Necessary losses: Many losses are replaced by something better.(death of a loved one)
Actual loss: Loss of a body part
Perceived Loss: Loss of self esteem
Maturational loss: When a child goes to school for the first time.
Situation Loss: Occurs as a result of a sudden, unpredictable life event. Often involves multiple losses. (divorce)

Front 9

What does palliative care mean?

Back 9

focuses on prevention, reduction, or relief of physical, emotional, social or spiritual symptoms of disease or treatment at the end of life when cure is no longer possible.

Front 10

Bowlby's four phases of mourning:

Back 10

Numbing( 1 week or more)
Yearning and Searching: Acute distress
Disorganization and Despair: why?
Reorganazation: Year+ accept

Front 11

Review Kubler Ross's stages of dying: 5 stages

Back 11

Denial: nothing has changes
Anger: resists the loss
Bargaining: Postpones awareness
Depression: Realizes the full significance of the loss
Acceptance: Accepts reality

Front 12

Attentive Reassurance:

Back 12

Nurses are:
Available
seem interested
support sense of hope
help me believe in self
anticipate my needs

Front 13

What is a healing environment and who created the theory of a healing environment:

Back 13

Florence Nightingale

Front 14

Functional Nursing:

Back 14

Task focused, not pt focused

Front 15

Team Nursing:

Back 15

Team members provide direct care

Front 16

Total patient Care:

Back 16

RN is responsible for all aspects of care.

Front 17

Primary Nursing:

Back 17

RN resumes responsibility for a caseload of patients over time(during their hospital stay)

Front 18

Decentralized Decision Making:
responsibility, Authority, Accountability

Back 18

Responsibility: Refers to the duties and activities that an individual is employed to perform.
Authority: Refers to the official power to act in areas in which an individual has been given and accepts responsibility.
Accountability: refers to liability or individual being answerable for their actions.