NUR 2030 Exam 1
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1. PQRSTU: P- provocative or palliative
Q- quality and quantity
R-region or radiation
S- severity scale (pain scale)
T-Timing
U- Understanding the patient's perceptions
2. Culture: learned and socially transmitted orientation and way of life of a group of people
3. Subculture: a membership in a smaller group within a larger culture.
4. Racial groups: classification of individuals based on shared traits such as skin tone, facial features, inherited
traits from biologic ancestors.
5. Ethnicity: pertains to a social group w/in the social system that claims to possess variable traits such as: common
geographic origin, migratory status, religion, race, language, share values, traditions or symbols and food preferences
6. Minority groups: individuals who are considered by themselves or others to be members of a minority (lesser
in number) because they have a different- race, culture, ethnic group, gender, sexual orientation or socioeconomic leve
7. Values, Norms, value orientation: set of values which govern the behavior of all members of the
group- how they should think, respond etc.
8. Norms: an understood prescriptions for acceptable behavior, often unwritten.
9. Beliefs: consists of explanatory ideas and knowledge that members of a culture have
10. Customs: common practices carried out by tradition
11. Rituals: highly structured and prescribed behavior patterns. Often respond to specific events- birth, death,
illness etc.
12. Spiritual Distress: Is the state in which a patient feels that their belief system, or his or her place within it,
is threatened
Events that may Provoke Spiritual Distress
-Birth
-Accidents
-Illness
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-Dying process
-Loss of a body part or loved one
13. Signs & Symptoms of Spiritual Distress: Anxiety
Withdrawal
Distractedness
Hopelessness
Crying behaviors
14. Beginning Your Assessment: First- gather all the tools needed to perform an assessment
Second- collect a set of vital signs before beginning your head to toe assessment!
15. Inspection: 1st technique used when assessing the patient.
It is the use of one's senses of vision & smell to consciously observe the patient.
Inspection begins when you first meet the patient & continues throughout the health history & physical examination.
16. Light palpation: Done before deep palpation
performed to feel for surface abnormalities.
Assess for texture, tenderness, temperature, moisture, elasticity, pulsations, superficial organs & masses
Depress the skin ½'' to ¾" with your finger pads, using the lightest touch
17. Deep palpation: is used to feel internal organs and masses for size, shape, tenderness, symmetry and
mobility.
Always palpate tender areas last.
Depress the skin 1 1/2" to 2" with firm deep pressure
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1. PQRSTU: P- provocative or palliative
Q- quality and quantity
R-region or radiation
S- severity scale (pain scale)
T-Timing
U- Understanding the patient's perceptions
2. Culture: learned and socially transmitted orientation and way of life of a group of people
3. Subculture: a membership in a smaller group within a larger culture.
4. Racial groups: classification of individuals based on shared traits such as skin tone, facial features, inherited
traits from biologic ancestors.
5. Ethnicity: pertains to a social group w/in the social system that claims to possess variable traits such as: common
geographic origin, migratory status, religion, race, language, share values, traditions or symbols and food preferences
6. Minority groups: individuals who are considered by themselves or others to be members of a minority (lesser
in number) because they have a different- race, culture, ethnic group, gender, sexual orientation or socioeconomic leve
7. Values, Norms, value orientation: set of values which govern the behavior of all members of the
group- how they should think, respond etc.
8. Norms: an understood prescriptions for acceptable behavior, often unwritten.
9. Beliefs: consists of explanatory ideas and knowledge that members of a culture have
10. Customs: common practices carried out by tradition
11. Rituals: highly structured and prescribed behavior patterns. Often respond to specific events- birth, death,
illness etc.
12. Spiritual Distress: Is the state in which a patient feels that their belief system, or his or her place within it,
is threatened
Events that may Provoke Spiritual Distress
-Birth
-Accidents
-Illness
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-Dying process
-Loss of a body part or loved one
13. Signs & Symptoms of Spiritual Distress: Anxiety
Withdrawal
Distractedness
Hopelessness
Crying behaviors
14. Beginning Your Assessment: First- gather all the tools needed to perform an assessment
Second- collect a set of vital signs before beginning your head to toe assessment!
15. Inspection: 1st technique used when assessing the patient.
It is the use of one's senses of vision & smell to consciously observe the patient.
Inspection begins when you first meet the patient & continues throughout the health history & physical examination.
16. Light palpation: Done before deep palpation
performed to feel for surface abnormalities.
Assess for texture, tenderness, temperature, moisture, elasticity, pulsations, superficial organs & masses
Depress the skin ½'' to ¾" with your finger pads, using the lightest touch
17. Deep palpation: is used to feel internal organs and masses for size, shape, tenderness, symmetry and
mobility.
Always palpate tender areas last.
Depress the skin 1 1/2" to 2" with firm deep pressure
