EXAM 3
Answer ADULT HEALTH
1. Primary Prevention
Answer True prevention that lowers the chances that a disease will develop.
2. Secondary Prevention
Answer Focuses on preventing the spread of disease, illness, or infection once it occurs.
3. Tertiary Prevention
Answer Occurs when a defect or disability is permanent or irreversible.
4. Health Promotion
Answer Helps individuals maintain or enhance their present health.
5. Health Education
Answer Helps people develop a greater understanding of their health and how to better manage their health
risks.
6. Illness Prevention
, Answer Protects people from actual or potential threats to health.
7. Nursing Process
Answer A systematic approach to patient care that includes Assessment, Diagnosis, Planning,
Implementation, and Evaluation (ADPIE).
8. Assessment
Answer The first step in the nursing process where the patient's condition is evaluated.
9. Pain Assessment
Answer Involves asking about pain level, believing the patient's report, choosing appropriate control
options, delivering interventions, and empowering patients.
10. Characteristics of Pain
Answer Includes Palliative or Provocative factors, Quality, Relief measures, Region (location), Severity,
Timing, and Ettect of pain.
11. Severity of Pain
Answer Measured on a scale of 0 to 10, indicating how bad the pain is currently.
12. Self-Report
, Answer The most important tool for assessing a patient's expression of pain.
13. Nonverbal Responses to Pain
Answer Includes grimacing, rigid body posture, limping, frowning, or crying.
14. Empowerment in Pain Management
Answer Enabling patients and their families to control their course to the greatest extent possible.
15. Pain Control Options
Answer Choices made based on the patient's, family's, and setting's appropriateness.
16. Pain Relief Measures
Answer Includes what the patient takes at home to gain pain relief.
17. Effect of Pain
Answer What the patient is unable to do because of their pain.
18. Pain Timing
Answer Refers to whether the patient has pain all of the time, only at certain times, or only on certain days.
19. Pain History
, Answer Involves assessing previous pain experiences and ettective home interventions.
20. Patient Values and Beliefs
Answer Consideration of the patient's own values and beliefs about the manage- ment of pain.
21. Pain Functionality
Answer Determining which level of pain will allow the patient to function ettectively.
22. Health Education Topics
Answer Includes physical awareness, stress management, and self-responsibility.
23. Numerical rating scale
Answer A pain scale that uses numbers to rate the intensity of pain.
24. Verbal descriptive scale
Answer A pain scale that uses descriptive words to convey the intensity of pain.
25. Visual analog scale
Answer A pain scale that uses a line or gradient to represent pain intensity.
Answer ADULT HEALTH
1. Primary Prevention
Answer True prevention that lowers the chances that a disease will develop.
2. Secondary Prevention
Answer Focuses on preventing the spread of disease, illness, or infection once it occurs.
3. Tertiary Prevention
Answer Occurs when a defect or disability is permanent or irreversible.
4. Health Promotion
Answer Helps individuals maintain or enhance their present health.
5. Health Education
Answer Helps people develop a greater understanding of their health and how to better manage their health
risks.
6. Illness Prevention
, Answer Protects people from actual or potential threats to health.
7. Nursing Process
Answer A systematic approach to patient care that includes Assessment, Diagnosis, Planning,
Implementation, and Evaluation (ADPIE).
8. Assessment
Answer The first step in the nursing process where the patient's condition is evaluated.
9. Pain Assessment
Answer Involves asking about pain level, believing the patient's report, choosing appropriate control
options, delivering interventions, and empowering patients.
10. Characteristics of Pain
Answer Includes Palliative or Provocative factors, Quality, Relief measures, Region (location), Severity,
Timing, and Ettect of pain.
11. Severity of Pain
Answer Measured on a scale of 0 to 10, indicating how bad the pain is currently.
12. Self-Report
, Answer The most important tool for assessing a patient's expression of pain.
13. Nonverbal Responses to Pain
Answer Includes grimacing, rigid body posture, limping, frowning, or crying.
14. Empowerment in Pain Management
Answer Enabling patients and their families to control their course to the greatest extent possible.
15. Pain Control Options
Answer Choices made based on the patient's, family's, and setting's appropriateness.
16. Pain Relief Measures
Answer Includes what the patient takes at home to gain pain relief.
17. Effect of Pain
Answer What the patient is unable to do because of their pain.
18. Pain Timing
Answer Refers to whether the patient has pain all of the time, only at certain times, or only on certain days.
19. Pain History
, Answer Involves assessing previous pain experiences and ettective home interventions.
20. Patient Values and Beliefs
Answer Consideration of the patient's own values and beliefs about the manage- ment of pain.
21. Pain Functionality
Answer Determining which level of pain will allow the patient to function ettectively.
22. Health Education Topics
Answer Includes physical awareness, stress management, and self-responsibility.
23. Numerical rating scale
Answer A pain scale that uses numbers to rate the intensity of pain.
24. Verbal descriptive scale
Answer A pain scale that uses descriptive words to convey the intensity of pain.
25. Visual analog scale
Answer A pain scale that uses a line or gradient to represent pain intensity.
