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What is wellness care? - Answers -✔✔ Healthy diet, exercise, regular check ups,
vaccines
Important things to observe when seeing family communication styles - Answers -✔✔
Make sure everyone has a chance to speak
make sure to recognize nonverbal cues
Are they able to work through disagreement
What do you do if your patient was a no show? - Answers -✔✔ Be kind and
understanding, tell them they had an appointment and ask to reschedule
If they have missed multiple appointments ask if they have transportation
What is the difference between internal and external family resources - Answers -✔✔
External: food banks, shelters, church group neighbor (outside of home) that provide
help food or transportation
Internal: anyone in the home
Different types of families (nuclear, binuclear, extended, blended) - Answers -✔✔
Nuclear: married w kids
Binuclear: divorced but still parenting together
Extended: aunts, uncles, nieces cousins
Blended: step children/half siblings
What is family development? - Answers -✔✔ change in family dynamics overtime
ex. As children grow they may have more say
What is family centered care? - Answers -✔✔ - Involving family in that patients care
- Relationship between nurse and patient family
Different types of grief - Answers -✔✔ Masked: seems totally fine then goes home and
gets drunk
Abbreviated: short period of grief
Chronic: long time
Disenfranchised: can't acknowledge their grief in front of other people bc its not socially
acceptable (mistress)
Kubler-Ross stages of grief - Answers -✔✔ Denial, anger, bargaining, depression,
acceptance
, If your patient needs to pray at 5:00 but you need to give meds at 5:00 what should you
do? - Answers -✔✔ Work around their wishes, if they have to pray at a certain time, do
meds before or after
Symptoms of COPD - Answers -✔✔ Clubbing of fingernails
Normal O2 may be lower
Barrel chest
Clear but diminished lung sounds
Interventions for a patient with hypothermia - Answers -✔✔ Warm fluids
Warm blankets
Risk for cardiac arrest because heart is trying to keep blood centralized
Avoid a lot of movement, be gentle, can cause cardiac arrest
Interventions for patient with hyperthermia - Answers -✔✔ Cool them down
Ice packs, cool blankets
Hot→dehydrated
Greater risk for dehydration, minimize heat exposure, just a sheet
What kind of exercise would you recommend for patients with osteoporosis - Answers -
✔✔ Do weight bearing exercises
Just gentle sports, walking yoga, not mountain biking they could get hurt
interventions for impaired skin integrity - Answers -✔✔ Make sure they are dry
Float heels off of bed
Pillows on side of bed
Position, changing, frequent turning
Are all cultures okay with direct eye contact? - Answers -✔✔ Some cultures it may be
disrespectful to use direct eye contact
Culture - Answers -✔✔ A person's ideas beliefs and practices
Diversity - Answers -✔✔ Differences among groups of people
Assimilation - Answers -✔✔ Cultural assimilation is the process in which a minority
group or culture comes to resemble a society's majority group or assimilate the values,
behaviors, and beliefs of another group whether fully or partially.
Acculturation - Answers -✔✔ the modification of the social patterns, traits, or structures
of one group or society by contact with those of another; the resultant blend