TEST BANK For Potter and Perry's Canadian
Fundamentals of Nursing 7th Edition By Barbara Astle
Describe the following terms below?
Acceptance - ANSWER:The stage in Kübler-Ross's five stages of grief during which the
individual accepts the loss and begins to look to the future.
Accessibility - ANSWER:A principle of the Canada Health Act, which states that
insured residents have reasonable access to health care facilities and providers;
additional charges for insured services are not permitted; essential health care
services must be available to all Canadians on the basis of need
Accommodation - ANSWER:Accommodation occurs when the individual adapts ways
of thinking to a new experience or rules of ethical or moral conduct, but it does not
predict what a person would actually do in a given situation.
Accountability - ANSWER:Ability to accept responsibility or to account for one's
actions; refers to being answerable to someone for something one has done.
Acculturation - ANSWER:The process of adapting to and adopting the characteristics
of a new culture.
Acromegaly - ANSWER:Chronic metabolic condition caused by overproduction of
growth hormone and characterized by gradual, marked enlargement and elongation
of bones of the face, jaw, and extremities.
Active listening - ANSWER:Listening attentively with one's whole being—mind, body,
and spirit.
Active transport - ANSWER:Movement of materials across the cell membrane by
means of chemical activity that makes the cell permeable to larger molecules than
would otherwise be possible.
Activities of daily living (ADLs) - ANSWER:Activities usually performed in the course
of a normal day in the patient's life, such as eating, dressing, bathing, brushing the
teeth, and grooming.
Activity tolerance - ANSWER:Type and amount of exercise or work that a person is
able to perform
Actual loss - ANSWER:Any loss of a person or object that can no longer be felt, heard,
known, or experienced by the individual.
, Actual nursing diagnosis - ANSWER:Describes responses to health conditions or life
processes that exist in an individual, family, or community. Defining characteristics
(manifestations, signs, and symptoms) that cluster in patterns of related cues or
inferences support this diagnostic judgement
Acuity - ANSWER:a patients level of sickness
Acuity records - ANSWER:Provide a method of determining the hours of care and
staff required for a given group of patients. Also called workload measurement
systems.
Acute care - ANSWER:Acute care is health care delivered for a short time (usually
days to weeks, typically less than three months) in which an immediate health
problem is diagnosed, treated, or both
Acute pain - ANSWER:Follows acute injury, disease, or surgical intervention and has a
rapid onset; varies in intensity, and lasts for a brief time, usually less than 6 months
Acute stress disorder - ANSWER:Limited to the month after experiencing, witnessing,
or being confronted with a traumatic event; the reaction is one of intense fear,
helplessness, or horror.
Adaptation - ANSWER:Stage during which the body stabilizes and responds in an
opposite manner to an alarm reaction. Hormone levels, heart rate, blood pressure,
and cardiac output return to normal, and the body repairs any damage that may
have occurred.
Addiction - ANSWER:A primary, chronic, neurobiological disease, with genetic,
psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and
manifestations. It is characterized by behaviours that include one or more of the
following: impaired control over drug use, compulsive use, continued use despite
harm, and craving.
Adjuvants - ANSWER:Substances, especially medications, that are added to a
prescription to assist in the action of the main ingredient
Advance directives - ANSWER:People's preferences, wishes, and likely plans in the
event that they become incapable of expressing those wishes for themselves; a
mechanism enabling a mentally competent person to plan for a time when he or she
may lack the mental capacity to make medical treatment decisions. Advance
directives are commonly expressed in two ways: (1) an instruction directive, or living
will, that identifies what life-sustaining treatment a patient desires in certain
situations, and (2) a proxy decision maker who knows the person well and speaks for
his or her best interests.
Adventitious sounds - ANSWER:Abnormal lung sounds heard with auscultation.
Fundamentals of Nursing 7th Edition By Barbara Astle
Describe the following terms below?
Acceptance - ANSWER:The stage in Kübler-Ross's five stages of grief during which the
individual accepts the loss and begins to look to the future.
Accessibility - ANSWER:A principle of the Canada Health Act, which states that
insured residents have reasonable access to health care facilities and providers;
additional charges for insured services are not permitted; essential health care
services must be available to all Canadians on the basis of need
Accommodation - ANSWER:Accommodation occurs when the individual adapts ways
of thinking to a new experience or rules of ethical or moral conduct, but it does not
predict what a person would actually do in a given situation.
Accountability - ANSWER:Ability to accept responsibility or to account for one's
actions; refers to being answerable to someone for something one has done.
Acculturation - ANSWER:The process of adapting to and adopting the characteristics
of a new culture.
Acromegaly - ANSWER:Chronic metabolic condition caused by overproduction of
growth hormone and characterized by gradual, marked enlargement and elongation
of bones of the face, jaw, and extremities.
Active listening - ANSWER:Listening attentively with one's whole being—mind, body,
and spirit.
Active transport - ANSWER:Movement of materials across the cell membrane by
means of chemical activity that makes the cell permeable to larger molecules than
would otherwise be possible.
Activities of daily living (ADLs) - ANSWER:Activities usually performed in the course
of a normal day in the patient's life, such as eating, dressing, bathing, brushing the
teeth, and grooming.
Activity tolerance - ANSWER:Type and amount of exercise or work that a person is
able to perform
Actual loss - ANSWER:Any loss of a person or object that can no longer be felt, heard,
known, or experienced by the individual.
, Actual nursing diagnosis - ANSWER:Describes responses to health conditions or life
processes that exist in an individual, family, or community. Defining characteristics
(manifestations, signs, and symptoms) that cluster in patterns of related cues or
inferences support this diagnostic judgement
Acuity - ANSWER:a patients level of sickness
Acuity records - ANSWER:Provide a method of determining the hours of care and
staff required for a given group of patients. Also called workload measurement
systems.
Acute care - ANSWER:Acute care is health care delivered for a short time (usually
days to weeks, typically less than three months) in which an immediate health
problem is diagnosed, treated, or both
Acute pain - ANSWER:Follows acute injury, disease, or surgical intervention and has a
rapid onset; varies in intensity, and lasts for a brief time, usually less than 6 months
Acute stress disorder - ANSWER:Limited to the month after experiencing, witnessing,
or being confronted with a traumatic event; the reaction is one of intense fear,
helplessness, or horror.
Adaptation - ANSWER:Stage during which the body stabilizes and responds in an
opposite manner to an alarm reaction. Hormone levels, heart rate, blood pressure,
and cardiac output return to normal, and the body repairs any damage that may
have occurred.
Addiction - ANSWER:A primary, chronic, neurobiological disease, with genetic,
psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and
manifestations. It is characterized by behaviours that include one or more of the
following: impaired control over drug use, compulsive use, continued use despite
harm, and craving.
Adjuvants - ANSWER:Substances, especially medications, that are added to a
prescription to assist in the action of the main ingredient
Advance directives - ANSWER:People's preferences, wishes, and likely plans in the
event that they become incapable of expressing those wishes for themselves; a
mechanism enabling a mentally competent person to plan for a time when he or she
may lack the mental capacity to make medical treatment decisions. Advance
directives are commonly expressed in two ways: (1) an instruction directive, or living
will, that identifies what life-sustaining treatment a patient desires in certain
situations, and (2) a proxy decision maker who knows the person well and speaks for
his or her best interests.
Adventitious sounds - ANSWER:Abnormal lung sounds heard with auscultation.
