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FlashCards por Elizabeth Then, atualizado more than 1 year ago
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Criado por Elizabeth Then
aproximadamente 6 anos atrás
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| Questão | Responda |
| What is holistic nursing? | Healing the whole person as a goal |
| What is critical care nursing? | nursing care of critically ill patients who have a manifest of potential disturbances of vital organ functions |
| Critical care nursing requires: | advanced assessment skills ability to understand and use medical technology in depth knowledge equally important roles |
| Patients perception of critical illness | pertain to attitudes that shape persons beliefs |
| Critical care patients are admitted due to | potentially ill or already ill risk of serious complications may require intensive and complicated nursing support |
| Threat of helplessness/loss of control | loss of function and self -esteem failure of former defences sense of isolation fear of dying |
| Patient relatives - value | honesty, understand explations, know specific facts |
| Types of care in critical care | psychosocial care culturally competent care critical care nursing variety of stressors |
| What is psychosocial care? | emotional and social support to protect patient interventions for holistic approach culturally sensitive provisions |
| What is culturally competent care? | 1. knowledge 2. attitude 3. decision making skills 4. critical thinking 5. judgements 6. morals |
| Stressors of critical illness and srugery | lack of natural light, disruption of sleep patterns, lack of contact with family, onset of delirium |
| Cultural sensitivity | all aspects of human experience and backgrounds include usual response to illness and norms, beliefs, world views explores meaning of critical event |
| Cultural considerations: death and dying | awareness of own attitudes, values and beliefs ask clear and concise questions, use effective interpersonal skills |
| Care at end of life | withdrawing and withholding specific therapies, optimise care of patients |
| Cultural considerations - paediatrics | family factors, health beliefs of parents, family-centred care |
| ICU psychosis | disorder in which patients in ICU experience serious psychiatric symptoms become delirious |
| What causes ICU psychosis | sensory deprivation - lack of natural light, family sleep disturbances and deprivation - noise, give meds continious light levels - no reference to day or night stress - loss of control lack of orientation - loss of time and date medical monitoring - continuous of vital sings, can create sensory overload |
| Medical causes of ICU psychosis | pain critical illness medication reaction or side effects infection metabolic disturbances heart failure cumulative analgesia dehydration |
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