holistic health

Question 1

health asessment

Answer 1

evalution of the health tatus by taking a health history and performing physical exam

Question 2

why is health assessment important

Answer 2

fundation skill for nurses, provides families, patient, and other members with relevant, timely and appropriatre care

Question 3

complete health assessment

Answer 3

complete health history and resuts od a full physical exam

Question 4

episodic/problem centered assessment

Answer 4

limited or short term problem

Question 5

follow up assessment

Answer 5

monitors short-term or chronic problems

Question 6

emergerncy assessment

Answer 6

rapid collecton of data, often compiled while life saving measures are occuring

Question 7

point of critical thinking skills

Answer 7

• promotes patient health by assesing risk fcators and assessing social context
• sets priorities
• idenitfy expected outcomes

Question 8

prioritiziing care

Answer 8

1. life threatening
   2.urgent
   3.normal vs adnormal
   - relevance and clustering of data

Question 9

when using critical thinking watch for…

Answer 9

• assumptions
• incosistenics
• missing info

Question 10

how to use in everyday nursing

Answer 10

-set priorities for your day and organize your workload
- deciding which client to see first, who is most important

Question 11

critical thinking, judgment annd health assessment importance

Answer 11

able to conduct health assessments, and physical exams in a respectful and accepting mannor

Question 12

health promotion: development and concept

Answer 12

• shift from infection to chronic
• consider physical and social enviroment

Question 13

primary prevention

Answer 13

health promotion and disease prevention, prevents people from being sick

Question 14

secondary prevention

Answer 14

refers to early detection of disease before symptoms emerge

Question 15

tertiary prevention

Answer 15

referes to prevention of complication when dieseae is present

Question 16

1974 lalonde report

Answer 16

highlighted limits of canadian health care system

Question 17

1986 ottawa charter for health promotion

Answer 17

defined health as process of enabling ppl to increase to control over and to improve their health

Question 18

health promotion interventions

Answer 18

• diet
• exercise
• sexual health
• substance use
• injury prevention

Question 19

asessing self-care behaviour

Answer 19

use acronym DADSPIES to ak questions about self-care
- diet
- alcohol
- smoking
- physical
- immnizations
- exercise
- stress

Question 20

screening

Answer 20

early detection of disease

Question 21

active immnizations

Answer 21

se of vaccines or toxoid preparation that elicits immunological self-response

Question 22

passive immnization

Answer 22

antibodies in form of immunoglobulin are administered to those already exposed to a disease

Question 23

documentation

Answer 23

• document after care or as soon as possible
• reglar and frequent

Question 24

getting ready for physical exam

Answer 24

prepare equipment
clean equipment
universal precautions

Question 25

four techniques for physical exam

Answer 25

-inspection
- palpation
- percussion
- auscultation