Basics of Health Assesement Flashcards
(11 cards)
What are the values and responsibilities of nurses? (7 answers)
- Providing safe, compassionate, competent and ethical care
- Promoting health and well-being
- Promoting and respecting informed decision-making
- Honouring Dignity
- Maintaining privacy and confedentiality
- Promoting justice
- Being accountable
What is primary prevention?
Avoiding the development of disease (ex: removing risk factors)
What is secondary prevention?
Early detection and treatment (ex: screening and prevention of progression)
What is tertiary prevention?
Reduce the complications of an established disease (ex: medications such as insulin)
What is health assesement?
The collection of objective and subjective data
What are the componants of health assesement? (4 answers)
- General survey
- Health history
- Review of systems
- Physiological exam
What are the overarching concepts for nursing practice? (4 answers)
- Proffesional nursing
- Patient characteristics
- Health and illness
- Health contexts
What are the links in the chain of the nursing process? (6 answers)
- Assesement
- Analysis/diagnosis
- Outcome identification
- Planning
- Implementation
- Evaluation
What are the guiding frameworks of health assesement? (3 answers)
- Functional (survey and interview)
- Head-to-toe examination (algorithmic analysis)
- Body systems and concepts (organize findings)
What are the types of assesement? (3 answers)
- Urgent (ABCs and first-aid)
- Comprehensive (deducing to an issue)
- Focused (addressing a specific problem)
What are the communication phases? (4 answers)
- Pre-interaction (reviewing charts and records)
- Begining (gain basic information)
- Working (solidifying or disputing hypothesis)
- Closing (discuss and agree on action plan)
