hT

• Physical assessment techniques


  • Inspection
  • Palpation
  • Percussion
  • Auscultation
• Vital signs


  Indicators of changes in the client's condition
• Consent for mentally ill patient


  Must be taken from parents, legal guardians
• Universal precaution


  Hand washing
• Palpation


  Use of fingers to locate masses
• Percussion


  Tapping body surface to produce sound
• Auscultation


  Use of stethoscope to hear heartbeat
• Physical assessment


  Way of examining the health of the client that gives objective data
• Documentation


  Vital aspect of nursing practice
• Clients have the right to read their medical records
• Inspection


  The first technique the nurse employs when conducting a client physical examination
• Handwashing


  The most effective way to break the chain of infection
• Palpating temperature


  The correct way is to use the dorsal surface of the hands
• Proficient nurse


  Able to see the big picture rather than series of individual incidents
• Carotid pulse


  Located at the lateral aspect of the neck
• Apnea


  Absence of breath
• Mortality


  Condition or quality of being subject to death
• Venereal


  Usually acquired through sexual relation
• Congenital


  Due to defect in the development
• Veracity


  Principle underlying ethical code of professional nurses, related to telling the truth about medication errors
• Erik Erikson


  Psychological theorist
• Legally, patient's chart belongs to the hospital and should not be given to anyone who requests it for whatever reason
• Imogen King


  Theorist of interactional system framework and goal-attainment
• Secondary prevention


  Seeks to identify specific illness or conditions at the early stage with prompt intervention to prevent or limit disability
• Primary prevention


  Seeks to prevent disease or condition at a pre-pathologic stage, stop something from ever happening
• Patient's bill of rights


  Helps the health practitioner provide more effective patient care
• Communication


  The process of sharing information or generating and transmitting meanings
• Calista Roy


  Nurse theorist whose theory addresses the four modes of adaptation
• Self-accomplishment


  Maslow's hierarchy of needs that result in accomplishment
• Confidentiality


  Unethical to tell one's friend and family member data about patient as it violates the patient's right
• Interdependent nursing interventions


  Require knowledge, skills and expertise of multiple health professionals
• Novice nurse practitioner


  Beginner nurse who will rank themselves as such using Benner's stages of nursing expertise
• Keeping hands in sight and above the waist

  Important after putting on sterile gloves
• Subjective data from primary source

  Client states "my chest hurts and my left arm feel numb"
• Nursing process


  Steps the nurse employs to provide nursing care
• Primary goal of nursing care for child with infectious disease

  Child will not spread the infection to others
• Removing gown to beat spread of infection

  Avoid rolling it from the inside out
• Best way to prevent spread of infection

  Use proper hand washing technique
• Gathering data with help of others

  Assessment step of nursing process
• Keeping newborn under radiant warmer


  To prevent radiation heat loss