Which team members deal with health perception, stress/coping, self-concept, and sleep
(3)- -Social worker
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psychologist
clergy member
Which team members deal with pain? (2)- -Acute pain nurse
palliative care physician
What team members deal with activity? (3)- -Physiotherapist
Occupational therapist
Recreational therapist
What does a physiotherapist deal with?- -Injury recovery \ long term body stress
What does an occupational therapist deal with?- -Full body movement, ADLs
What does a recreation therapist do?- -Promote hobbies and leisure, social
engagement
What team members deals with nutrition / elimination? (2)- -dietician
Speech language pathologist
What team member deals with hearing?- -Audiologist
, What team member deals with oxygenation?- -Respiratory therapist
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What team member deals with medication concerns / polypharmacy?- -Pharmacist
What is an acute condition?- -Develops suddenly and lasts a short time.
What is a chronic condition?- -Develops slowly and requires long term treatment.
What are the types of common risk factors related to chronic illness? (3)- -Non-
modifiable risk factors
Behavioural risk factors
Cultural and environmental conditions
What are common intermediate conditions that lead to chronic conditions? (4)- -high
blood pressure (hypertension)
elevated blood lipids (hyperlipidemia)
obesity
pre-diabetes
What is mortality?- -Rate of deaths
What is morbidity?- -Rate of disease in a population
What is illness?- -The human experience of symptoms and suffering
, What is illness behaviour?- -The diverse ways individuals respond to symptoms
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How is a chronic disease defined? (3)- -Health conditions that persist over extended
periods of time.
Complex to manage for patients and families.
Often require a coordinated plan of care from many health care team members.
What are the most prevalent chronic diseases? (10
)- -Hypertension
Osteoarthritis
Mood disorders
Osteoporosis
Diabetes
Asthma
COPD
Ishemic heart disease
Cancer
Dementia
What are three types of nursing diagnoses?- -At risk
Problem focused
Health promotion
Oxygenation- -the process of supplying oxygen to the body’s cells