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Term
Differentiate common nursing assessments used to examine sensory
perception across the lifespan - Tactile assessment
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Health promotion and stress reduction, obesity, psychosocial health specifically
anxiety and depression.
,- Elder mistreatment
- Therapeutic communication
- Touch
- Reality orientation
- Validation therapy
- Reminiscence
- Body-image interventions
Nurses are in a position of influence within their communities to help people feel
valued, appreciated and needed especially when delivering care in any healthcare
setting.
Romberg test for balance
Tests of hot and cold, sharp and dull, localization of
sensation
Monofilament testing
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Definition
- Increase in height and weight
- Development of sight, hearing, and fine- and gross-motor
movements
- Development of vision, hearing and touch
- Language and memory development
- Separation of self from others
- Purposeful smiling
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Psychosocial Changes in young Physical, Cognitive, and Psychosocial
adults changes in Toddlers
Physical, Cognitive, and
Recognize home safety measures to
Psychosocial Changes in
prevent injury - For elderly
Infants
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Term
Use screening tools to evaluate older adults
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The average newborn is 6-9lb, 19-21in (48-53cm) in length and has a head
circumference of 13-14in (33-35cm). They lose up to 10% of their birth weight in the
first few days of life.
Appearance - lanugo on the skin of the back, cyanosis of hands and feet for the first
24hr, and of protuberant abdomen, as well as a rounded head. Anterior fontanel is
diamond shaped and the posterior fontanel is triangular shaped
- Children are not little adults
- Head-to-toe approach may not work
- Strong assessment skills
- Firm, but caring approach
- Try doing the nutrition history first to establish rapport
- Allow child to touch medical equipment
- Use words child understands
- Ask child about chief complaint, Ask child to touch where it hurts
- Ascertain relationship of child to the adult
- Call child by name
- Increase the number of older adults with one or more chronic conditions who
report confidence in maintaining their conditions
- Reduce the proportion of older adults who have moderate-to-sever functional
limitations
- Increase the proportion of older adults with reduced physical or cognitive
function who engage in light, moderate, or vigorous leisure-term physical activities
- Increase the proportion of older adults who receive diabetes self-management
Term
Differentiate common nursing assessments used to examine sensory
perception across the lifespan - Tactile assessment
Give this one a try later!
Health promotion and stress reduction, obesity, psychosocial health specifically
anxiety and depression.
,- Elder mistreatment
- Therapeutic communication
- Touch
- Reality orientation
- Validation therapy
- Reminiscence
- Body-image interventions
Nurses are in a position of influence within their communities to help people feel
valued, appreciated and needed especially when delivering care in any healthcare
setting.
Romberg test for balance
Tests of hot and cold, sharp and dull, localization of
sensation
Monofilament testing
Don't know?
, 2 of 262
Definition
- Increase in height and weight
- Development of sight, hearing, and fine- and gross-motor
movements
- Development of vision, hearing and touch
- Language and memory development
- Separation of self from others
- Purposeful smiling
Give this one a try later!
Psychosocial Changes in young Physical, Cognitive, and Psychosocial
adults changes in Toddlers
Physical, Cognitive, and
Recognize home safety measures to
Psychosocial Changes in
prevent injury - For elderly
Infants
Don't know?
, 3 of 262
Term
Use screening tools to evaluate older adults
Give this one a try later!
The average newborn is 6-9lb, 19-21in (48-53cm) in length and has a head
circumference of 13-14in (33-35cm). They lose up to 10% of their birth weight in the
first few days of life.
Appearance - lanugo on the skin of the back, cyanosis of hands and feet for the first
24hr, and of protuberant abdomen, as well as a rounded head. Anterior fontanel is
diamond shaped and the posterior fontanel is triangular shaped
- Children are not little adults
- Head-to-toe approach may not work
- Strong assessment skills
- Firm, but caring approach
- Try doing the nutrition history first to establish rapport
- Allow child to touch medical equipment
- Use words child understands
- Ask child about chief complaint, Ask child to touch where it hurts
- Ascertain relationship of child to the adult
- Call child by name
- Increase the number of older adults with one or more chronic conditions who
report confidence in maintaining their conditions
- Reduce the proportion of older adults who have moderate-to-sever functional
limitations
- Increase the proportion of older adults with reduced physical or cognitive
function who engage in light, moderate, or vigorous leisure-term physical activities
- Increase the proportion of older adults who receive diabetes self-management
