NUR 205 LATEST SET ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS
SET A+
✔✔Assessment of fatigue Diagnostic test - ✔✔-CBC with differential
-thyroid function test
-Liver/renal function test
-ESR
-chemistry
-Pregnancy test
✔✔self-report instruments fatigue - ✔✔Brief fatigue inventory (BFI)- measures amount,
activities affected by fatigue
ex Cancer patients
Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory (MFI)- Measures general, physical, mental, reduced
motivation, and reduced activity
ex COPD
Multidimensional Assessment Fatigue (MAT)- measures severity, distress, degree of
interference in activities of daily living, timing (Frequency of occurrence and
changeability)
ex arthritis
Fatigue severity- measures severity, how fatigue interferes with certain activities
developed for patients with multiple sclerosis and lupus
✔✔Clinical management primary prevention - ✔✔-good nutrition
-exercise
-adequate sleep
-manage stress
-patient teaching for individual risk factors
✔✔Clinical management secondary prevention - ✔✔-No population- wide screening
efforts since fatigue associated with multiple conditions
-Nurses to screen patients at risk for fatigue
-using self report instruments
✔✔interventions; manage physiological fatigue - ✔✔-Balanced nutrition
, -Adequate sleep
-Manage stress
✔✔interventions; manage secondary fatigue - ✔✔-Manage chronic conditions
-Patient education for individual risk factors
✔✔interventions; exercise and rest therapy - ✔✔-Walking 30 minutes/ day
-yoga
- Avoid over-exertion
-Planned rest breaks
✔✔interventions; pharmacological agents - ✔✔-medications to treat underlying
conditions
-Medications for fatigue
✔✔interventions; Psychological - ✔✔-establish therapeutic relationship
-cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
✔✔Interrelated concepts of fatigue - ✔✔1. Mobility, cognition, functional ability
2. Mood and affect, nutrition, pain
3. Stress, sleep, gas exchange, perfusion, cellular respiration
✔✔Development - ✔✔-the sequence of physical, psychosocial, and cognitive
development changes that take place over the human lifespan.
✔✔three aspects of change; development - ✔✔Occurs as a simultaneous, ongoing,
interrelationship
1.physical growth
2.Differentiation
3.Maturation
✔✔Normal human development - ✔✔organized
progressive
follows a predictable sequence across life stages
✔✔order and progression of development - ✔✔-The order of skill development is more
important than chronological age
-development is ongoing and speed varies
ex baby walking can be anywhere up to two years
✔✔Understanding development - ✔✔-growth and development are not the same
-must adopt a life span perspective of human development
-takes in to account all developmental stages
-includes development through adult years
SET A+
✔✔Assessment of fatigue Diagnostic test - ✔✔-CBC with differential
-thyroid function test
-Liver/renal function test
-ESR
-chemistry
-Pregnancy test
✔✔self-report instruments fatigue - ✔✔Brief fatigue inventory (BFI)- measures amount,
activities affected by fatigue
ex Cancer patients
Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory (MFI)- Measures general, physical, mental, reduced
motivation, and reduced activity
ex COPD
Multidimensional Assessment Fatigue (MAT)- measures severity, distress, degree of
interference in activities of daily living, timing (Frequency of occurrence and
changeability)
ex arthritis
Fatigue severity- measures severity, how fatigue interferes with certain activities
developed for patients with multiple sclerosis and lupus
✔✔Clinical management primary prevention - ✔✔-good nutrition
-exercise
-adequate sleep
-manage stress
-patient teaching for individual risk factors
✔✔Clinical management secondary prevention - ✔✔-No population- wide screening
efforts since fatigue associated with multiple conditions
-Nurses to screen patients at risk for fatigue
-using self report instruments
✔✔interventions; manage physiological fatigue - ✔✔-Balanced nutrition
, -Adequate sleep
-Manage stress
✔✔interventions; manage secondary fatigue - ✔✔-Manage chronic conditions
-Patient education for individual risk factors
✔✔interventions; exercise and rest therapy - ✔✔-Walking 30 minutes/ day
-yoga
- Avoid over-exertion
-Planned rest breaks
✔✔interventions; pharmacological agents - ✔✔-medications to treat underlying
conditions
-Medications for fatigue
✔✔interventions; Psychological - ✔✔-establish therapeutic relationship
-cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
✔✔Interrelated concepts of fatigue - ✔✔1. Mobility, cognition, functional ability
2. Mood and affect, nutrition, pain
3. Stress, sleep, gas exchange, perfusion, cellular respiration
✔✔Development - ✔✔-the sequence of physical, psychosocial, and cognitive
development changes that take place over the human lifespan.
✔✔three aspects of change; development - ✔✔Occurs as a simultaneous, ongoing,
interrelationship
1.physical growth
2.Differentiation
3.Maturation
✔✔Normal human development - ✔✔organized
progressive
follows a predictable sequence across life stages
✔✔order and progression of development - ✔✔-The order of skill development is more
important than chronological age
-development is ongoing and speed varies
ex baby walking can be anywhere up to two years
✔✔Understanding development - ✔✔-growth and development are not the same
-must adopt a life span perspective of human development
-takes in to account all developmental stages
-includes development through adult years
