Week 10 Health Status Assessment Flashcards
Action a person takes to understand their health, maintain an optimal state of health, prevent illness or injury and reach maximum physical and mental potential.
Health behaviours
A concept about health that an individual believes to be true.
Health belief
The visual examination: assessment by using the sense of sight.
Inspection
The examination of the body by using the sense of touch.
Palpation
A method in which the body surface is struck to elicit sounds that can be heard or vibrations that can be felt.
Percussion
The process of listening to sounds produced within the body.
Auscultation
Data that are apparent only to the person affected; can be described or verified only by that person.
Subjective data
Information that is detectable by an observer or can be tested against an accepted standard; can be seen, heard, felt, or smelled.
Objective data
Pain that only last through the expected recovery period (less than 6 months), whether is has a sudden or slow onset and regardless of the intensity.
Acute pain
Prolonged pain, usually recurring or persisting over 6 months or longer and interferes with functioning
Chronic pain
Pain experienced when an intact, properly functioning nervous system sends signals that tissue is damaged, requiring attention and proper care.
Nociceptive pain
Pain experienced by people who have damaged or malfunctioning nerves because of illness, injury, or undetermined reasons.
Neuropathic pain
Physiological process related to pain perception
Nociception
Maximum amount and duration of pain that an individual is willing to withstand without seeking avoidance of the pain or relief.
Pain tolerance
The least amount of stimuli that is needed for a person to label a sensation as pain.
Pain threshold
