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Signs and Symptoms - Correct Answers-C/O
Patient Problem
Comprehensive Data will help the nurse establish APPROPRIATE INTERVENTIONS
Signs - Correct Answers-Objective data as perceived by the examiner
Can be seen, heard, and measured and can be verified by more than one person
I can see that
Examples: red-tinged sputum, rashes, altered vital signs, visible drainage, seems anxious, or
exudate
Lab results, diagnostic imaging, and other studies
Symptoms - Correct Answers-Subjective data
Perceived by the patient
STATES
Examples: pain, nausea, vertigo, double vision/diplopia, and anxiety, itching/pruritis
Nurse unaware of symptoms unless the patient describes the sensation
Disease - Correct Answers-It is any disturbance of a structure or function of the body; a
pathologic condition of the body
It is recognized by a set of signs and symptoms
Signs and symptoms are clustered in groups to help the health care provider to make a medical
diagnosis
, Origins of disease - Correct Answers-Disease or illness originates from many causes: hereditary,
congenital, inflammatory, degenerative, infectious, deficiency, metabolic, neoplastic, traumatic,
and environmental
Unknown etiology
Diseases that have no apparent cause
Risk Factors for Development of Disease - Correct Answers-A risk factor is any situation, habit,
environmental condition, genetic predisposition, physiologic condition, or other that increases
the vulnerability of an individual or a group to illness or accident
Risk factors do not necessarily mean that a person will develop a disease condition, only that
the chances of disease are increased
Categories of risk factors - Correct Answers-Genetic and physiologic, age, environment, and
lifestyle
How long will this last? - Correct Answers-DURATION
Chronic - Correct Answers-Develops slowly & persist over aa long period of time/lifetime
Eg. Diabetes- cause of disease related to the pancreas
Remission - Correct Answers-Partial or complete disappearance of clinical & subjective
characteristic of disease Eg. Cancer
Acute - Correct Answers-Begins abruptly, severe s/s then usually subsides after treatment
Eg. Flu
Organic disease - Correct Answers-Structural change of an organ Eg. Brain changes from a stroke
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Signs and Symptoms - Correct Answers-C/O
Patient Problem
Comprehensive Data will help the nurse establish APPROPRIATE INTERVENTIONS
Signs - Correct Answers-Objective data as perceived by the examiner
Can be seen, heard, and measured and can be verified by more than one person
I can see that
Examples: red-tinged sputum, rashes, altered vital signs, visible drainage, seems anxious, or
exudate
Lab results, diagnostic imaging, and other studies
Symptoms - Correct Answers-Subjective data
Perceived by the patient
STATES
Examples: pain, nausea, vertigo, double vision/diplopia, and anxiety, itching/pruritis
Nurse unaware of symptoms unless the patient describes the sensation
Disease - Correct Answers-It is any disturbance of a structure or function of the body; a
pathologic condition of the body
It is recognized by a set of signs and symptoms
Signs and symptoms are clustered in groups to help the health care provider to make a medical
diagnosis
, Origins of disease - Correct Answers-Disease or illness originates from many causes: hereditary,
congenital, inflammatory, degenerative, infectious, deficiency, metabolic, neoplastic, traumatic,
and environmental
Unknown etiology
Diseases that have no apparent cause
Risk Factors for Development of Disease - Correct Answers-A risk factor is any situation, habit,
environmental condition, genetic predisposition, physiologic condition, or other that increases
the vulnerability of an individual or a group to illness or accident
Risk factors do not necessarily mean that a person will develop a disease condition, only that
the chances of disease are increased
Categories of risk factors - Correct Answers-Genetic and physiologic, age, environment, and
lifestyle
How long will this last? - Correct Answers-DURATION
Chronic - Correct Answers-Develops slowly & persist over aa long period of time/lifetime
Eg. Diabetes- cause of disease related to the pancreas
Remission - Correct Answers-Partial or complete disappearance of clinical & subjective
characteristic of disease Eg. Cancer
Acute - Correct Answers-Begins abruptly, severe s/s then usually subsides after treatment
Eg. Flu
Organic disease - Correct Answers-Structural change of an organ Eg. Brain changes from a stroke
