NURS 140

ileum - Answer last portion of small intestine, from jejunum to cecum, e.g., a part of the small intestine is the ileum ilium - Answer one of the bones of each half of the pelvis, e.g., the ilium is part of the pelvic arch Adam's apple - Answer laryngeal prominence in the neck Bell's palsy - Answer form of facial paralysis Down's syndrome - Answer a genetic birth defect causing mental retardation, a characteristic facial appearance, and multiple malformations ...

Bluish discoloration of the skin refers to: - Answer cyanosis. The medical term for the cornea of the eye is: - Answer kerat/o. A disease characterized by the hardening or thickening of the arterial walls is: - Answer arteriosclerosis. The suffix -osis means: - Answer abnormal condition. An abnormal thinning of the skeleton is: - Answer osteoporosis. The instrument used to measure the size of skulls is a: - Answer craniometer. The foundation of a word is the: ...

A women who has provided full-time, complete care for her grandmother for over 2 years asks the nurse if there are any services available that would provide good-quality care for her grandmother, while the care giver goes on vacation. Which service would the nurse recommend to the caregiver? - Answer Respite Care A nurse working in long term care facility is planning care for patients based on which understanding of the goal of long term care? - Answer to help patients to be as independ...

Nurse managers - Answer in charge of all activities on their units, including patient care, continuous quality improvement, personnel hiring and evaluation, and resource management; knowledgeable in business and financial principles; master's degree; 24 hour accountability Clinical nurse specialist (CNS) - Answer advanced practice nurses with master's, post-master's, or doctoral degrees in specialized areas of nursing; includes responsibility for serving as a clinical mentor an...

Which word root means men? - Answer Andr/o The suffix that refers to healing is - Answer -iatry T or F: Function of a suffix is to modify the meaning of the root word - Answer True The word that can refer to either bone marrow or spinal cord is: - Answer myel/o When using compound words that relate to parts of the body the _______ determines which root word comes first - Answer anatomical position? In actual usage, epigastralgia means: - Answer pain in the upper ...

What is the nursing process? - Answer A systematic problem-solving process that guides all nursing actions and determines the effectiveness of patient care What are the steps of the nursing process? - Answer 1. Assessment of patient 2. Diagnosis of problems/ potential problems 3. Planning nursing interventions and anticipated care plan 4. Implementing the care plan 5. Evaluating the effectiveness of treatment/ interventions What does being a patient advocate stand for? - Answ...

ab- - Answer away from ad- - Answer toward ante- - Answer before, in front circum- - Answer around contra- - Answer opposition, against primi- - Answer first semi- - Answer half (partially) hemi- - Answer half, also one-sided ambi- - Answer both or both sides null- - Answer none pan- - Answer all de- - Answer down, away from dia- - Answer through ecto-,exo- - Answer outside endo- - Answer within epi- - Answ...

Key Health Concepts - Answer functioning, health, disease, illness functioning - Answer Levels reflected in terms of performance/social expectations; loss indicator of need for nursing intervention Health - Answer a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity Disease - Answer Failure of adaptive mechanisms Results in functional or structural disturbances Illness - Answer Subjective experience of individu...