Wellness Exam 1

Front 1

How should skin temperature should be assessed

Back 1

Use the back of the hand to access (more sensitive)

Front 2

When you are lifting up on the skin you are assessing what?

Back 2

Mobility of the skin and checking for edema, or scleroderma

Front 3

When you lift the skin to assess for mobility and you release the skin what are you assing when you release the skin

Back 3

turgor

Best place: forearm,sternum, abdomen,(not back of the hand)

Front 4

What is hair loss from plucking or twisting hair; may indicate family or psychological stress

Back 4

trichotillomania

Front 5

Excessive hair growth in a male pattern that affects women

Back 5

Hirsutism

Front 6

Results from excessive tissue deposits near proximal nail bed
Common in pulmonary and cardiac disorders

Back 6

Cubbed nails

COPD,

Front 7

Painless loosening of nail plate w/ separation from nail bed at distal groove

Back 7

onycholysis

Front 8

Inflammation of the proximal & lateral nail folds; Can be acute or chronic; Frequent nail immersion in water make people susceptible

Back 8

Paronychia

Front 9

Common causes:
iron deficiency anemia
syphilis
fungal infection
hypothyroidism

Back 9

Koilonnychia
Spoon Nails

Front 10

White bands cover the nail except at the distal tip; Associated with aging, cirrhosis, heart failure, hypoalbuminemia, NIDDM

Back 10

Terry Nails

Front 11

a set of learned values, beliefs, customs, and behavior that is shared by a group of interacting individuals

Back 11

Culture

Front 12

the process of adopting the cultural traits or social patterns of a different population group.

Back 12

Acculturation

Front 13

the process in which a person or a group of people of a different ethnic background becomes absorbed into a new culture

Back 13

Assimilation

Front 14

the complex integration of knowledge, attitudes, and skills that enables the nurse to provide culturally appropriate health care.

Back 14

cultural competence

Front 15

the result when one's own cultural beliefs and practices are imposed on another person or group of people.

Back 15

cultural imposition

Front 16

illnesses or afflictions that are recognized within a cultural group.

Back 16

culture bound symdrome

Front 17

groups whose members share a common social and cultural heritage.

Back 17

ethnicity

Front 18

a belief in the inherent superiority of an ethnicity or group to which one belongs

Back 18

ethnocentrism

Front 19

traditional healers who use nonconventional methods of medicine; typically share a native language and ancestry with the patient

Back 19

fork healer

Front 20

an ethnic, regional, economic, or social group with characteristic patterns of behavior, background, or ideals that distinguish it from the rest of a culture or society

Back 20

Sub culture

Front 21

a specialty that focuses on the comparative study and analysis of cultures and subcultures; the goal is the discovery of culturally relevant facts that can guide the nurse in providing culturally appropriate and competent care.

Back 21

transcultural nursing

Front 22

the sets of rules by which individuals, families, groups, and communities live.

Back 22

values

Front 23

A concious learning process in which an individual becomes appreciative of and sensitive to the cultures of other people

Back 23

Cultural awareness

Front 24

Invinves the process of understanding the key aspects of a groups culture, related to health and health prastices

Back 24

Cultural knowledge

Front 25

The ability to collets revelant info regarding healt hx. and performing culturally sp[ecific assessments

Back 25

Cultural skill

Front 26

What is essential for the developenemt of cultural competence and refers to direct corss cultural interactions between people from different backgrounds

Back 26

Cultural encounter

Front 27

refers to a persons effort to find purpose and meaning in life. Influenced by ones own experiences. Relates to the sole or sprit more than the body

Back 27

Spirituality

Front 28

This is more formal and organised system of belief, including the belief in or worship of god or gods

Back 28

religion

Front 29

Hispanis for leader is called

Back 29

curandero

Front 30

an african american fork leader is called

Back 30

hougan

Front 31

native american may seek help from a medicine man called a

Back 31

shaman

Front 32

Asians use what as a form of a (fork Leader)

Back 32

acupunncturist

Front 33

When asking (what are your sourses of hope, meaning, comfort, strength, peace, love and connection)

Back 33

Hope

Front 34

When asking (do you consider yourself a part of an organised religion)

Back 34

Organized

Front 35

When asking about personal spritual beliefs thta are independent or organised religion

Back 35

Personal sprituallity

Front 36

When asking what effect has you current situation had on your spitiuralpracitces

Back 36

Effects

Front 37

Means the study of values, works and ethics

Back 37

Axiology

Front 38

What are the symptoms of Spiritual lacking or "ailing"

Back 38

Something we value is lost or threatened.
Suffering
Diminished capacity to be touched by the beautiful, loved, goodness
Values malaise

Front 39

Regret leads to guilt (and blame) Half empty to half full; what have I accomplished rather than how far am I behind? What have I done rather than what have I failed to do Emphasis zing success rather than obsessing re failure

Back 39

COnscious rejection of regret

Front 40

Requires giving up the idea that one is alone in suffering Pain and tragedy are part of the life cycle and human condition. God is not out to get you

Back 40

Conscious depersonalixzation

Front 41

Beliefs based on life death , good and evil are based on

Back 41

religious beliefs

Front 42

what is providing the greatest good for the greatest number called

Back 42

utilitarianism

Front 43

The analysis of paradigmatic prior cases as relevant

Back 43

Casuistry

Front 44

It emphasizes the interest of communities and societies over individuals and social responsibilites bearing on the need to maintain the the institutions of civil society

Back 44

comminitarianism

Front 45

Nonmaleficence or primum non nocere means

Back 45

"first, do no harm"

Front 46

the dictum that the clinician needs to "do good" for the patient.

Back 46

beneficence