Terminologies
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- Activities of daily living (ADL)
- are activities in which people engage on a day-to-day basis. These are everyday personal care activities that are fundamental to caring for oneself and maintaining independence.
- Baseline Data
- is all the information about a client; it includes the nursing health history, physical assessment, the physician’s history and physical examination, results of laboratory and diagnostic tests, and material contributed by other health personnel. Client data should include past history as well as current problems
- Body Systems – are groups of organs and tissues that work together to perform important jobs for the body. Some organs may be part of more than one body system if they serve more than one function. Other organs and tissues serve a purpose in only one body system.
- Hyperpyrexia
- refers to an extreme elevation in temperature, above 41.1C (106F)
- Hyperthermia, Fever, or Pyrexia
- refers to an elevated body temperature.
- Hypothermia
- refers to an abnormally low temperature, below 35C (95F) rectally.
- Febrile
The client who has a fever; the one who does not is afebrile.- Fever spike
- A temperature that rises to a fever level rapidly following a normal temperature and then returns to normal within a few hours.
- Tachycardia
- It is a rate greater than 100 beats/min.
- Bradycardia
- A heart rate in an adult of less than 60 beats/min.
- Pulse rhythm
- It is the pattern of the beats and the intervals between the beats.
- Dysrhythmia or Arrhythmia
- A pulse with an irregular rhythm
- Pulse volume
- Also called the pulse strength or amplitude- refers to the force of blood with each beat.
- Eupnea
- Breathing that is normal in rate and depth.
- Bradypnea
- Abnormally slow respirations.
- Tachypnea
- Abnormally fast respirations.
- Apnea
- Absence of breathing.
- Dyspnea
- Shortness of breath.
- Arterial blood pressure is a measure of the pressure exerted by the blood as it flows through the arteries.
- Systolic pressure is the pressure of the blood as a result of the contraction of the ventricles.
- Diastolic pressure is the pressure when the ventricles are at rest.
- Pulse pressure is the difference between the diastolic and the systolic pressures.
- Korotkoff’s sound - series of sound heard when taking blood pressure using a stethoscope
- Hypertension is a blood pressure that is persistently above normal.
- Hypotension is a blood pressure that is below normal
- Orthostatic hypotension is a blood pressure that falls when the client sits or stands.