Brainarium

What is meant by the term "emergent property"? - ️️A property which a collection or complex system has, but which the individual members do not have. What is a hypothesis? - ️️A rational accounting for a set of observations, guided by inductive reasoning. What is a theory? - ️️A hypothesis that has been repeatedly tested and not rejected. What is qualitative data? - ️️Information about qualities; information that cannot actually be measured. What is quantitative dat...

What is the nursing process? - ️️A systematic problem-solving process that guides all nursing actions What is the purpose of the nursing process? - ️️To help the nurse provide goaldirected, client-centered care What are the two types of goals used in nursing? - ️️Short-term and long-term What are the steps of the nursing process? - ️️Assess, diagnose, plan, implement, evaluation (ADPIE) Assessment - ️️Gather data Diagnosis - ️️Identify client's health needs

Which is associated with early increased intracranial pressure? - ️️Headache Which wave corresponds with the AV valve bulging during ventricular contraction? - ️️C Wave Viruses injure cells differently than other causes of cellular injury because they - ️️Are incorporated into the cell, where it uses the cell's RNA or DNA for selfreplication Cholecystitis is caused by - ️️Inflammatory reactions Which statement is true?: Women have a lower hemoglobin level than men. Men...

What factors influence personality and mental growth potential in a child - ️️- genetic makeup - cultural background - family environment - socioeconomic status - access to community resources and support Intellectual Health Disorders - ️️- commonly defined based on two factors: intellectual functioning significantly below average (an IQ of 70 to 75 or lower with onset during the developmental period) and concurrent deficits in adaptive functioning in conceptual, social, and pra...

A nurse is completing the initial admission assessment and history for a patient . Which of the following history findings is the priority action for the nurse to take? - ️️allergy, history, previous condition, reason for admission What is the medical term for the patient having difficulty breathing in a supine position? - ️️Orthopnea What does Murphy's sign suggest? - ️️acute cholecystitis by asking the patient to take in and hold a deep breath while palpating the right sub...

Which of the following extends the elbow?-Correct Answer-triceps brachii When climbing stairs, which muscle or muscle group flexes your knee?-Correct Answerhamstring group This type of muscle makes up the walls of hollow organs, such as the stomach and uterus-Correct Answer-smooth muscle Which of the following is NOT a muscle of the rotator cuff? subscapularis teres minor infraspinatus supraspinator teres major-Correct Answer-teres major

Endemic - ️️(adj.) native or confined to a particular region or people; characteristic of or prevalent in a field Subclinical - ️️Stage of a disease or disorder not severe enough to produce symptoms that can be detected or diagnosed. Functions NORMALLY. What is an example of etiology? - ️️ETIOLOGY: Study of causes or reason of disease. 1) Latrogenic: UNKNOWN 2) Idiopathic: UNINTENDED or UNWANTED Allostasis - ️️The body's ability to maintain a STABLE physiological envi...

Homogeneous - ️️Consisting of 2 or more substances in the same phase; uniform throughout Heterogeneous - ️️does not have uniform composition throughout; its components are easily visually distinguishable Pure substance - ️️When separated, components of both homogeneous and heterogeneous mixtures yield ____ ________. Pure substance - ️️classified as elements or compounds; has well defined physical and chemical properties Hypothesis - ️️a tentative explanation or predic...

The plaintiff's attorney in civil litigation decides to send a set of statements to the defendant for the purpose of having the defendant admit or deny each statement. This discovery is called a: - ️️request for admission defendant - ️️individual, company, or institution being sued or accused plaintiff - ️️the person who brings the case to court example. spouse, doctor and priest are all allowed to see you if in jail but your employer doesn't mean shit In a criminal case...

Signs consistent with a diagnosis of glomerulonephritis include inuria. a. -smelling urine. blood cell casts in the urine. - ️️A The oliguric phase of acute tubular necrosis is characterized by and diminishing cognition. excess and electrolyte imbalance. sium and phosphorous loss in the urine. m retention and potassium loss in the urine. - ️️B Somatic death refers to death nerve cells. dary to brain damage. a body organ. the entire organism. - ️️D An increase in ...

transilluminator - ️️used to detect blood, fluid, or mass in a cavity red glow will show presence of air in the fluid tuning fork - ️️used for Weber-Rinne tests Largest gland in the body - ️️liver why can you see internal organs in a newborn? - ️️very thin abdominal muscles when does sweat and oil glands activate? - ️️adolescence Staging of decubitus ulcers - ️️Stage 1: Epidermis Stage 2: Epidermis and Dermis Stage 3: Epidermis, Dermis, and Subcutaneous Stage 4: ...

Why do organisms share many characteristics in common? - ️️common ancestory Name three molecular features an organism is likely to share with its closest relatives - ️️genes, metabolic pathways, and structural proteins Name three reasons scientific names are used. Give examples - ️️-common names all convey meaning in casual usage but they can also cause confusion -those names all refer to more than one species -often common names do not reflect what the animal actually is Name...

Alzheimer's Disease - ️️- Most common form of irreversible dementia - Between 40-60 % of all dementias are Alzheimer's - Over 5.2 million Americans have Alzheimer's - It is estimated that 60% of all nursing home residents have Alzheimer's disease - Typically death occurs in 4-8 years (called the long goodbye) - Alzheimer's is not normal aging - Learning new information make take longer - May be difficult to filter out noise Alzheimer's pathphysiology - ️️- Neuro...

A family brings in a non-responsive client. The family reports the client is catatonic due to schizophrenia, has a history of diabetes, seizures & COPD. What is the nurse's initial action? - ️️check the client's blood sugar What is a good activity for a client diagnosed w/ schizophrenia who is paranoid? - ️️allow the client to initiate the activity A client asks the nurse if he hears the devil talking. What is the nurse's best response? - ️️even though the voice seems ...

antagonists to complex IV - ️️cyanide, sodium azide, carbon monoxide antagonists to complex III - ️️ What enters the citric acid cycle - ️️acetyl CoA Enzyme that produces FADH2 - ️️Succinate dehydrogenase positive regulators of the citric acid cycle - ️️AMP, NAD+, ADP negative regulators of the citric acid cycle - ️️ATP, acetyl CoA, NADH, citrate, What inhibitor was used to show citric acid cycle was cyclic - ️️malonate

Prodromal stage of infection - ️️During this stage the person is most infectious and symptoms are becoming more specific; pathogen is multiplying Illness stage of infection - ️️Signs and symptoms are occurring Convalescence stage of infection - ️️Recovery Urinary tract infections, surgical site infections, blood stream infections, and pneumoniaventilated associated infections are mostly acquired where? - ️️Hospital What kinds of patients are at risk for infection? - ️️-T...

Interest rates, inflation, unemployment, economic growth, and other factors that affect the general health and well-being of a nation or the regional economy of an organization. - ️️Economic Forces Knowledge that people use to make a way of life in their surroundings - ️️Technology Outcomes of changes in the technology that managers use to design, produce, or distribute goods and services - ️️Technological Forces Pressures emanating from the social structure of a country or so...

Receptors? - ️️proteins that are located on the outer cell membrane or within the cell itself (intracellular) -selective for a drug (like lock and key) 2 types of drug receptors - ️️agonists and antagonist Agonists - ️️drugs that bind to specific receptors and produce an effect/action (cellular/physiological response) antagonists - ️️inhibit agonist drug action or cellular functions Contraindication - ️️situation(s) when a drug should NOT be used (ex. drug-drug intera...

the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities; prevention of illness and injury; alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response; and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations - ️️nursing _____ determines guidelines and principles to guide nursing practice - ️️American Nursing Association (ANA) the study of conduct and character - ️️ethics nurse who started modern day nursing - ️️florenc...