Lpn Research Exam Study Solution.

Health - correct answer Physical mental social and spiritual well-being Disease - correct answer Loss of homeostasis; anything that threatens a normal body Direct causes of disease - correct answer Degeneration, genetic, inflammatory, infectious, metabolic, neoplastic, traumatic Indirect causes - correct answer Age, environmental, genetic, lifestyle, pre-existing, stress Acute - correct answer Not long living, quick onset, short duration. Very quick to go back to homeostasis less than six months Chronic - correct answer Slow onset, longer duration; greater than six months Diagnosis - correct answer Identification of the disease Etiology - correct answer The cause of the disease Idiopathic - correct answer Unknown cause Infection - correct answer Invasion of the body by pathogens Nosocomial - correct answer Infections you get just because you're in that environment Iatrogenic - correct answer You get this because of some treatment they have done to you Infestation - correct answer Micro organisms living on you or in you Inflammation - correct answer Response to infestation/infection normally redness, heat, swelling, pain Localized - correct answer On the surface and in the local spot Systemic - correct answer Moves through entire system Mycotic - correct answer Fungal infection example athletes foot, ringworm Prognosis - correct answer Prediction of how the disease is going to progress/last Signs - correct answer Objective: viewed by anybody Symptoms - correct answer Subjective, only the patient knows it's there and has to tell the nurse/physician Microbiology - correct answer Study of microorganisms Bacteriology - correct answer Study of bacteria subset of microbiology Pathology - correct answer Study of the disease and what it's doing to the body Bacilli - correct answer Rod shaped example tetanus, tuberculosis Cocci - correct answer Round Streptococci - correct answer Round and in chains example strep throat, rheumatic fever, impetigo Staphylococci - correct answer In clusters for example toxic shock syndrome, MRSA- staff infection of skin, boils, impetigo Diplococci - correct answer Round and in pairs example gonorrhea Curve/spiral or spirochete/obligate parasite - correct answer Lymes disease and syphilis Small microscopic - correct answer Extremely small example chlamydia, Rickettsia, Rocky Mountain spotted fever