1st degree burn Only the epidermis (red, painful, and edema)
2nd degree burn epidermis and part of dermis (blistered)
3rd degree burn Full thickness damage through skin into nerves and muscles
Afferent (ascending) tracts Sensory
law passed in 2010 to expand access to insurance, address cost
reduction and affordability, improve the quality of healthcare, and
Affordable Care Act introduce the Patient's Bill of Rights
-Pt/family teaching
.stage of HIV
.Education
.functional activities
AIDS/HIV B4UGo .nutrition
.exercise
Concerned with the social influences that can affect learning eg. culture,
Albert Bandura Theory ethnicity, groups
Expanded theories of personality to include superiority, inferiority, and
Alfred Adler self-actualization
, -Med management
-Safety/fall prevention
ALS B4UGo -Swallowing impairment and nutritional intake
-Skin breakdown prevention
Symptoms advance from muscle weakness in the arms and legs, to the
muscles of speech, swallowing, and breathing, to total paralysis and
ALS Primary Symptoms death
1990
-Title 1: prohibits discrimination in the work place due to disability
-Title 2: provides civil rights within the public entities
-Title 3: provides rights within private sector
-Title 4: telecommunication
American with Disabilities Act -Title 5: provides coverage related to legal fees, prohibiting retaliation
hemorrhage, infection, phantom limb pain, neuroma, flexion contracture
Amputation Complications
-Proper foot care
-Proper application of external comp
-Skin care
-safe transfers/mobility
Amputee B4UGo -Donning/doffing techniques
-Med management
Condition of progressive deterioration of motor nerve cells resulting in
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
total loss of voluntary muscle control
(ALS)
, Loss of most function below the site of injury to the anterior portion of
the spinal cord
Anterior Cord Syndrome Paralysis, loss of pain and temperature
Preservation of position sense
Association of Rehabilitation 1974, holistic perspective to the care of the patient with disabilities and
Nurses (ARN) chronic health problems
A disorder characterized by deficits in social relatedness and
communication skills that are often accompanied by repetitive,
Autism Spectrum Disorder ritualistic behavior.
a set of nerves that carries involuntary and automatic commands that
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) control blood vessels, body organs, and glands
an area of bone tissue death caused by insufficient blood flow
can be asymptomatic but if symptomatic it would be pain in affected
Avascular Necrosis joint
-Pain managment
-Joint precautions
-Med management
Avascular Necrosis B4UGo -Safety/fall prevention
-S/sx of infection
-Statin therapy
-limit weight bearing
Avascular Necrosis Managment -Pain managment
Basal Ganglia structures in the forebrain that help to control movement
Brainstem controls involuntary movement needed for swallowing
, -Chronic lung condition that affect newborns on vents or preemies, had
RDS, lung immaturity, severe resp/lung infections.
-Vent presses and damages epithelium, alveolar walls become fibrotic,
Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia lungs develop atelectasis and collapse.
Damage to half of spinal cord.
Loss of pain and temperature sensation on contralateral (opposite) side
of body
Brown-Sequard Syndrome Loss of proprioception (sense of body position) and discriminatory
touch on ipsilateral (same) side of body.
Pt/family edu
.meds
Cancer B4UGo .energy conservation
.pain management
-Proposed the collective unconscious, devises psychic or mental
patterns
Carl Jung -Dreams, religion, and other symbols influence person's view
- the actualizing tendency is limited by one's genetic potential.
- there is a "Force" within us called the organismic valuing process
which tells us whether our experiences are good or bad for us.
Carl Roger's Theory of Personality - the OVP knows what is best for the person.
ARN: provides a framework for assessing, planning, organizing,
coordinating, implementing, and evaluating the services and resources,
Case Management needed to respond to a person's healthcare needs