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What are some strategies to promote health?
1)Teaching Patients to Stay Well
2)Motivate patients to change unhealthy behaviors.
3)Propose strategies for behavior change.
4)Show patients how to care for themselves more effectively.
5)Teaching Patients to Stay Well
6)Build on patients’ strengths.
7)Help patients find and use available resources.
8)Provide support through telephone, individual and group counseling, and continuing education.
What are some factors that affect health?
1)Supports
2)Psychological state
3)Motivational level
4)Access to health care
5)Factors Affecting
6)Access to Health Care
7)Finances
8)Location
9)Age
10)Ethnicity or religion
11)Rationing of health care
12)Insurance
13)Transportation
14)Gender
-Men deter from going to the doctor
15)Healthy Behaviors
16)Rest and sleep
-look at cercatian rythm
17)Exercise
-why won't excersize
18)Stress
-what is a stress influence
Safety/injury prevention
What is the definition of nutrition?
o Nutrition is the state of balance between nutrient intake and physiological requirements for growth and physical activity.
What is malnuttrition?
1) Undernutrition
2) "bad nutrition"
3) Nutrition deficet
What is overnutrition?
Consumption of nutrients especially calories, sodium, and fat in excess of body needs.
What is the primary nutrients?
1) Carbohydrates (50-60%)
2) Proteins (10-20%)
3) Fats (20-30%)
4) Vitamins (b-vits, Vit c ect)
5) Minerals
6) Water
What are the effects of nutritional deficiency
stage 1) Primary & secondary malnutrition
stage 2) tissue reseve decrease
stage 3) Biochemical lesions
stage 4) Clinical lesions
What is this Marasmus
Diet contains almost all carbohydratesMuscle waisting
What are Bitit's spots
A fomy lesion of the cornea
Vitamin A diffitiency
Who are at nutritional risk?
People who are severly sick are at risk
What can add to forming a decubitus ulcer?
Person has great vitamin needs
What is rickets?
Vitamin D difitiency
What is osteoporosis?
Los of bone matrix
Insufitient calcium and Vit D intake
What is glossitis?
Disorders such as iron deficiency anemia, pernicious anemia and other B-vitamin deficiencies
What are so nutritional considerations for Infants?
1)High metabolic rate
2)Increased protein needs
3)Fat is critical to developing CNS
4)Fetal iron stores deplete around 4-6 months
What are some nutrtional needs of Childeren?
1)Weight doubles in first years by age 6
2)Breakfast important
3)Calcium and Phosphorus critical to skeletal development
4)Calories 2000/day
What are some nutritional considerations of adolecents?
1)Growth is erratic, Occurs in spurts
2) Sex hormones influence growth factors
3) Boys need more calories, zinc, and iron needs for sexual maturation.
What are some nutritional needs of ?pregnant women?
1)Folic acid,
2) vit C,
3)Iron,
4)Calcium,
5) Fluoride
6)Zinc
7)300 more calories
What are some nutritional needs of the older adult?
1)Decreased taste
2)Dec gastric acidity
3)Less vit D
4)Loss urinary sphincter muscle tone
What is a comprehensive nutritional history?
1)24-hour recall: record everything one ate and drank in the past 24 hours
2)Food intake Diaries: quantitative listing of all foods and fluids consumed within a designated time period, 3–5 days
3)Direct Observation of Eating Habits
What is the triceps skin fold?
1)Use individuals dominant arm
2)Also a way of measuring foat skin and adibose tissue
What is the mid-arm circumference?
1)Estimate muscle mass
2)Used as a backup of trceps
3)Can also do a measurement of individual dominant arm, and calf right below the knee in cm and the difference should not be more than 1 cm
What is the purpose of the physical assesment?
1)Provides an objective data base
2)Identifies actual/potential health problems
3)Identifies patients’ strengths
4)Validates history data
What are the two types of physical assessment?
Fucussed aand complete
What are the components of a physical?
1)General survey
2)Measurements
oVital signs
oAnthropometric
3)Measurements
oHead-to-toe, including all systems
4)Weighing patients
oWeigh patient at the same time and the same scale
oPatient should be wearing as little clothing as possible
What are the tools one would useto assess?
o Eyes
o Ears
o Nose
o Hands
What is the purpose of the penlight?
oUsed to assess eyes and hard to see places such as the mouth, throat, and nose
What is the use of the Thermometer?
Temperatures
oOral: 98.6(F) or 37 degrees Centigrade
oRectal: 99.5 (F) for 37.5©
oTympanic (99.5(F) 37.5©
oAxillary (97.6(F), 36.5 ©
oForehead (94(F), 34.4 ©
What are the convertions of temp?
F →C : (F – 32) X 5/9 = ____C
C →F: ( C x 9/5) + 32 = _____F
What is a pulcse?
The force of the heart contracting
oReflects the stroke volume
oNote rate and rhythm
oNewborn: 125 beats/min
oAge 4: 100 beats/min
oAdolescence : 80 -100 BPM
What are the respiratory rates?
oNote rate, rhythm and depth
oCount for 1 minute:
oFull inspiration and full expiration cycle
oAbnormal/Normal oRespiratory Rates
oEupnea (Normal)
oTachypnea(Above)
oBradypnea (slow)
oApnea (No breathing)
oDypsnea (Dificulty breathing)
What is blood presure?
oMeasurement of pressure within the vascular system as the heart contracts (Systole) and relaxes(diastole)
oBlood pressure = cardiac output(CO) x Peripheral Resistance (PVR)
What is prehypertensive blood presure?
S:120 – 139
D:80 – 89
What is hypertension BP?
S: 140-159
D:90-99
What is hypertension stage 2
S:>160
D:>100
How is orthostatic(or postural B/P) assessed?
Used to see if the person is volume depledet
1) Normal to see the BP to drop only by 10 points
What is a doppler?
oUsed to detect fetal heart sounds, locate pulses such as pedal pulses that may be difficult to feel
What is a nasoscope?
oIlluminates the nostrils to check for swelling, congestion, color, and obstruction
What is the Opthalmascope?
oUsed to assess the internal structure of the eye
What is the transilluminator?
oUsed to assess for fluid in the sinuses, the fontanels of the newborn, and the male testes.
what is the Goniometer?
oUsed during a musculoskeletal examination to assess the range of motion of a joint
what parts of the hand is used for palpation?
1)Dorsal aspect
Best for temperature
2)Balls & ulnar surface of hand
Best for vibrations
3)Fingertips
Best for fine sensations
4)Ballottement
Size, shape of free-floating objects
What types of precussion is ther?
Direct (immediate)
Indirect (mediate)
Fist or blunt (Ex: tenderty of the kidneys)
What is direct or indirect used to ditect?
-Density (air, fluid, solid)
-Size and shape
-Tenderness
-Deep tendon reflexes
What is fist or blunt precussion for?
Tenderness
What is the precussion hammer used for?
(deap tendon reflex
What is the types of Auscultation?
1)Direct: Without a stethescope,
2)indirect: stethoscope
What does auscultating assess?
1)Heart sounds
2)Lung sounds
3)Bowel sounds
4)Vascular sounds