Class 1 Vocab- WRONG!!!

Validates the importance of using the assessment techniques.

What the person says about himself during hisory taking

What you as the health professional observe by inspecting, percussing, palpating, and ausculating during the pxy examination

Subjective data, objective data, the patient's record, and laboratory studies form this

Process of analyzing health data and drawing conclusions to identify diagnoses

The standards of practice in nursing that include assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning, implementation, and evaluatoin

Clincial judgements about a person's response to an actual or potential health state

Emergent, life threatening, and immediate issues

Issues next in urgency- those requiring your prompt intervention to forestall further deterioration

Issues that are important to the patient's health but can be addressed after the more urgent health problems are addressed

Issues in which the approach to treatment involves multiple disciplines

Consideration of the whole person. Views that mind, body, and spirit

Consists of spoken or unspoken rules for behavior. Concerns what the person needs and expects from health care and what you, the health professional, have to offer

Both you and the patient should be seated comfortably at eye level

Ask for specific information. Limits the pt's answer.

The conventional code of good manners that governs behavior and varies cross-culturally

The most culturally variable nonverbal behavior

A subjective sensation that the person feels from the disorder

An objective abnormality that you as the examiner could detect on pxy examination

The HEEADSSS method

a significant behavioral or psychological pattern that is associated with distress or disability and has a signifant risk of pain, disability, or death or a loss of freedom

mental disorders due to brain disease of known specific organic cause

an organic etiology has not yet been established for a mental disorder

ABCT

Concentrated watching. Close, careful scrutiny, first of the individual and then the body system as a whole. Always comes first.

Follows and confirms points you noted during inspection. Applies your sense of touch to assess texture, temp, moisture, organ location and size, swelling, vibration, etc.

Tapping the person's skin with short, sharp strokes to assess underlying structures.

Intensity of a loud or soft sound

Frequency. The number of vibrations per second

Timbre. A sunjective difference due to a sound's distinctive overtones

the length of time the note lingers

listening to sounds produced by the body

Illuminates the internal eye structures

Aquired during hospital stay

Examining the body areas appropriate to the problem only

The maximum pressure that is felt on the artery during left ventricular contraction

The elastic recoil, or resting, pressure that the blod exerts constantly between each contraction

The difference between the systolic and diastolic pressures and reflects stroke volume

The pressure forcing blood into the tissues, averaged over the cardiac cycle

The opposition to the blood flow through the arteries

Refers to how tightly the blood is packed into the arteries

The "thickness" of blood

A period when Korotkoff sounds disappear during ausculation

Components of a BP reading first described by a Russian surgeon in 1905

A congenital form of narrowing of the aorta

A noninvasive method to assess arterial oxygen saturation (Spo₂)

Foundation of hypertension control

Thin but tough. Cells bound tightly together into sheets that form a rugged protective barrier. Stratified.

Forms new skin cells. Major ingredient is keratin.

Consists of dead keratinized cells that are interwoven and closely packed. Cells are constantly being shed and being replaced with new cells from below

The inner supportive layer consisting of mostly connective tissues, or collagen.

Freckles

Mole

Macular only and occures in children and adolescents. Progresses into the ______ in young adults

When red-pink tones from the oxygenated hemoglobin in the blood are lost, the skin takes on the color of connective tissue (collagen), which is mostly white.

An intense redness of the skin from excess blood (hyperemia) in the dilated superficial capillaries

Fine, faint hair that covers most of the body

the darker, thicker hair that grows on the scalp and eyebrows and axillae, the pubic area, and the face and chest in the male

Coiled tubules that open directly onto the skin surface and produce a dilute saline solution called sweat. Widely distributed throughout the body

Produce a thick, milky secretion and open into the hair follicles. Located mainly in the axillae, anogenital area, nipples, and navel

The vascularity of the skin diminishes while the vascuar fragility increases; a minor trauma may produce dark red discolored areas.

Bluish mottled color that signifies decreased perfusion; the tissues do not have enough oxygenated blood.

A yellowish skin color indicated rising amnts of bilirubin in the blood

Profuse perspiration

Small, smooth, slightly raised bright red dots that commonly appear on the trunk in all adults older than 30 yrs.

Commonly called liver spots. Small, flat, brown macules

Lesions that are raised, thickened, areas of pigmentation that look crusted, scaly, and warty

Looks dark, greasy, "stuck on." Develop mostly on the trunk but als on the face and hands and on unexposed as well as on sun exposed areas. Not cancerous.

Red-tan lesions that are scaly plaques that increase over the years to become raised and roughened. Less common

Skin tags. Overgrowth of normal skin that form a stalk and are polyp-like

Raised yellow papules with a central depression. More common in men. Forehead, nose, or cheeks. Pebbly look.

A graphic family tree

A questionaire to identify excessive or uncontroled drinking

CAGE

Being aware of one's own existence, feelings, and thoughts and aware of the environment. Most elementary of mental health status

Using the voice to communicate one's thoughts and feelings

A prolonged display of feelings that color the whole emotional life

A temporary expression of feelings or state of mind

The awareness of the objective world in relation to the self

The power of concentration, the abilty to focus on one specific thing w/o being distracted by many environmental stimuli

The ability to law down and store experiences and perceptions for later recall

Pondering a deeper meaning beyond the concrete and literal

The way a person thinks, the logical train of thought

What the person thinks

An awareness of objects through the 5 senses

Dry skin