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| What is critical thinking? |
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| A combination of: Reasoned thinking, Openness to alternatives, Ability to reflect, and a desire to seek truth. |
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| What is the Nursing Process? |
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| A systematic problem solving process that guides all nursing actions. |
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| What is the purpose of the Nursing Process? |
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| To help the nurse provide goal-oriented, client-centered care. |
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| What are the phases of the nursing process? |
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| Assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation. |
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| How is the Nursing Process related to critical thinking? |
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| Nursing is a problem solving process that uses many individual critical thinking skills. |
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| What is full spectrum nursing? |
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| A unique blend of thinking and doing that translates caring into action. |
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| What are the concepts that make up full spectrum nursing? |
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| Critical thinking, nursing knowledge, nursing process, and patient situation. |
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| What are the four critical thinking skills? |
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| Reading, listening, observing, and analyzing. |
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| skin and the accessory structures—hair, nails, sweat glands, and sebaceous glands. |
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| thin, outermost layer of the skin and is composed of stratified squamous epithelium. |
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| made up of highly vascular connective tissue. |
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| small, flat hyperpigmented macules that may appear anywhere on the body, particularly on sun-exposed areas of the skin. The most common locations are on the face, arms, and back. |
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| silver or pink “stretch marks” secondary to weight gain or pregnancy. |
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| acquired condition associated with the development of unpigmented patch or patches; it is more common in dark-skinned races and thought to be an autoimmune disorder. |
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| area of darker skin pigmentation that is usually brown or tan in color, and typically is present at birth (birthmarks). Some of these patches fade, but many do not change over time. |
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| small, slightly raised, bright red area that typically appears on the face, neck, and trunk of the body. These increase in size and number with advanced age. |
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| term used to describe a variety of superficial inflammatory conditions of the skin that can be acute or chronic. |
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| term that represents a group of eight DNA viruses. Herpes simplex virus (HSV) is a chronic, non-curable condition; between outbreaks, the virus is dormant. Outbreaks are triggered by a number of factors, including sun exposure, stress, and fever. |
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| Herpes Varicella (Chickenpox): |
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| a highly communicable viral infection spread by droplets; it commonly occurs in children, but can also infect adults who did not have the infection as children. |
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| Herpes Zoster (Shingles): |
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| a dormant herpes varicella virus causes herpes zoster, an acute inflammation by reactivation of the virus. Herpes zoster follows varicella infection years later in some individuals. |
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| an acute streptococcal or staphylococcal infection of the skin and subcutaneous tissue. Cellulitis can occur at any age and can involve any skin area on the body. |
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| a highly contagious infestation associated with the mite Sarcoptes scabiei. The female mite burrows into the superficial layer of skin and lays eggs. Transmission usually occurs with direct skin-to-skin contact. |
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| occurs after a bite from a tick infected with Borrelia burgdorferi. The majority of Lyme disease cases in the United States occur in the Northeast states. |
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| term designating that the skull is symmetric and is appropriately proportioned for the size of the body. |
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| an abnormally small head. |
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| an abnormally large head. |
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| the loss of elasticity of the lens of the eye with age; as a result, the client needs to move the card farther away to see it clearly |
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| a congenital defect of the iris |
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| involuntary movement of the eyeball in a horizontal, vertical, rotary, or mixed direction. It may be congenital or acquired (from multiple causes). |
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| a white patch or plaque found on the oral mucosa that cannot be scraped off. |
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| a red patch found on the oral mucosa. |
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| Paroxysmal Nocturnal Dyspnea: |
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| shortness of breath that awakens the individual in the middle of the night, usually in a panic with the feeling of suffocation. |
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| difficulty breathing when the individual is lying down. |
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| Adventitious Breath Sounds |
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| extraneous sounds that are superimposed on the breath sounds. |
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| should be heard over almost all of the posterior lung fields and all of the lateral surfaces. |
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| Bronchovesicular Breath Sounds: |
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| normally heard in the posterior thorax over the upper center area of the back on either side of the spine between the scapulae. |
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| term is used to describe a harsh, high-pitched sound associated with breathing that is often caused by laryngeal or tracheal obstruction. |
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| normally heard over the trachea and the area immediately above the manubrium. |
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| vibration resulting from verbalizations. |
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| accumulation of serous fluid in the pleural space between the visceral and parietal pleurae is called pleural effusion. |
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destruction of the alveolar walls causes permanent abnormal enlargement of the air spaces in emphysema.
air in the pleural spaces results in a pneumothorax. There are three types of pneumothorax: (1) closed, which may be spontaneous, traumatic, or iatrogenic; (2) open, which occurs following penetration of the chest by either injury or surgical procedure; and (3) tension, which develops when air leaks into the pleura and cannot escape. |
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| the SA node, termed the cardiac pacemaker, normally discharges between 60 and 100 impulses per minute. |
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| Intermittent Claudication: |
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| leg pain that occurs while walking and that is relieved by rest. |
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| murmur occurring during the ventricular ejection phase of the cardiac cycle. |
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| murmur occurring in the filling phase of the cardiac cycle. |
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| chest pain that is due to ischemia of the myocardium. |
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| condition that occurs when myocardial ischemia is sustained resulting in death of myocardial cells (necrosis). |
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| inflammation of a vein that may or may not be accompanied by a clot. |
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| when a thrombus (clot) develops within a vein. |
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| when a thrombus (clot) develops within a vein. |
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| inflammation of the parietal and visceral layers of the pericardium and outer myocardium. It may be idiopathic or the result of myocardial infarction, uremia, cancer, trauma, infections, cardiac surgery, or an autoimmune reaction. |
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