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Nursing Concepts and Practices for Older Adults, Exams of Health sciences

A wide range of nursing concepts and practices related to caring for older adult patients. It delves into topics such as health promotion, preventive care, adherence behavior, nursing processes for ineffective health maintenance, nonverbal communication, and various health assessments specific to the elderly population. Detailed information on factors affecting health maintenance, nursing interventions for noncompliance, and guidelines for screening and monitoring vital signs in older adults. It also covers the presentation of common health conditions in the elderly, including infectious diseases, acute abdomen, and cardiac problems. The comprehensive nature of this document makes it a valuable resource for nursing students and professionals working with older adult patients, as it equips them with the knowledge and strategies to provide holistic, patient-centered care.

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2023/2024

Available from 08/11/2024

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Download Nursing Concepts and Practices for Older Adults and more Exams Health sciences in PDF only on Docsity! Nurs 163 Questions And Answers Patient/ Community Centered - correctly answered Personal motivation is needed to incorporate the stratet Adherence Behavior - correctly answered self initiated action taken to promote wellness recovery and rehabilitation Attributes To Adherence - correctly answered Decisional Conflict Predictability Personal Experience Power Conflict Agreement Alignment Theory Of planned Behavior - correctly answered How Human Action is guided or predicted TPB - correctly answered Theory of planned behavior Factors of TPB - correctly answered Attitudes Subjective norms (beliefs and motivations to adhere) Perceived behavioral control HBM - correctly answered Health Belief Model Health Belief Model - correctly answered Individuals adherence based on perception on susceptibility Risk Benefits Barrie's 3 dimensions of adherence - correctly answered Compliance Persistence Concordance compliance adherence - correctly answered Patients agreement to prescribed recommendations Persistence adherence - correctly answered a patients persistence in continuing doctors orders Concordance Adherence - correctly answered Patient and Health Care professionals coming to a mutual agreement Interdisciplinary Lens of Adherence - correctly answered Understanding the perspective and use of adherence from each discipline of Adherence Nursing Mental health Medicine Pharmacy Adherence and Interrelated Concepts - correctly answered Adherence >>> Development , Functional Ability , Culture , Spirituality , family dynamics , cognition Health Promotion - correctly answered Behaviors token to improve health conditions Primary Prevention , Secondary Prevention , Tertiary prevention Categories of Communication - correctly answered Linguistic Paralinguistic Metacommunication What percent of older adults live with a chronic condition ? - correctly answered According to Centers of Disease control 80% What percent of older adults live with 3 or more coexisting chronic conditions ? - correctly answered According to Centers of Disease 50% Common Chronic Problems in Older Adults - correctly answered Arthritis hypertension diabetes heart disease vision or hearing disorders Factors Affecting Health Promotion and Maintenance - correctly answered Religious Beliefs "Cultural Beliefs Knowledge and Motivation Mobility Perceptions of Aging Impact of Cognitive and sensory Changes Nursing processes for ineffective health maintenance health management in hospital - correctly answered 1. Assess ability to resume normal health maintenance 2 Teach skills to monitor health statues at home 3 Consult with social worker that can assist with health maintenance Nursing process for ineffective health maintenance and health management in patients home - correctly answered 1 assess the existing health maintenance 2 explain positive health maintenance behaviors 3 assist in identifying family or community resources that promote health maintenance 4 use any appropriate interventions that are used in institutional setting Nursing process for ineffective health maintenance and health management - correctly answered Assessment nursing diagnosis patient goal / out comes Identification nursing interventions / Implementation Health promotion interventions - correctly answered Education Vaccinations Screening Nutritional health Physical Activity Pharmacologic agents Blood Pressure Screening Recommendation - correctly answered Every clinical examination (USPSTF) Clinical Breast Examination Screening Recommendation - correctly answered Annually after age of 40 (ACS) Mammogram Screening Recommendation - correctly answered Every 2 years between ages 50 and 74; yearly as long as woman is in good health Cholesterol Screening Recommendation - correctly answered Every 5 years (NCEP, USPSTF) Screening for Colorectal Caner and Polyps Recommendation - correctly answered After age 50 yearly fecal occult blood testing Screening for Obesity Recommendation - correctly answered at regular intervals (USPSTF) Bone Mineral Density (BMD) Screening Recommendation - correctly answered women 65 and older men over 70 Prostate Examination/ PSA Recommendation - correctly answered 50 or age 45 for african americans Hearing Screening Test Recommendation - correctly answered every 10 years Comprehensive Eye Examination Recommendation - correctly answered Every 1 to 2 years yearly if person has diabetes (AAO) Abdominal Ultrasound - correctly answered once between ages 65 and 75 in men who have ever smoked (USPSTF) Hepatitis C Screening Recommendation - correctly answered People at high risk for infection one time for people born between 1945 and 1956 Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Screening Recommendation - correctly answered People at high risk for infection (USPSTF) Type 2 diabetes Screenin\g Recommendation - correctly answered every 3 years for people with sustained BP of 135/80 mmHg Adults over wheight Health History Data - correctly answered Identifying Data Past History Present Medical History Family and Psychosocial History Interviewing older adults - correctly answered Prepare physical settings Minimize distractions establish rapport Use formal name exsplain what you are doing Structuring interview plan sufficient time When preforming physical assement on older adults - correctly answered inception palpation auscultation percussion Infectious Diseases Presentation - correctly answered absense of fever WBC within normal limits Decreased appetite or fluid intake behavioral changes confusion Acute abdomen presentation - correctly answered mild abdominal discomfort constipation vague respiratory symptoms Cardiac Problems presentation - correctly answered no complaint of chest pains vague symptoms of fatigue or nausea decreased functional statue Health screening for elderly - correctly answered to identify individuals who are in need of futehr more in-depth assessment screening for high blood pressure , hearing loss, foot problems, challenges with activities Health assessments - correctly answered collection of all the important health related data using a varity of techniuges Obtaining health history from elder - correctly answered nurse will use interviewing techniques and obtain basic identity past history and current history Physical assessment of elder - correctly answered objective and subjective info obtained pay close attention to physiologic and mood or behavior changes Inspection Physical assessment - correctly answered Vision hearing and smell techniques are used general and specific used for looking at the overall level of function and specific areas Palpation - correctly answered obtaining data through touch palse skin texture Ausculation - correctly answered hearing quality crackling whistling pitch low or high tone intensity loudness or softness duration length of sound frequency Percussion - correctly answered size position and density of structures under the skin are assessed taping the area and listening to resonance of the sound Measuring Vital signs with in older adults - correctly answered activity level medications eating stress disease process and enviorment affect elders vital signs Normal body temperature on an adult older oral than 75 years - correctly answered 97.2 F (36 C) Normal Oral temperature for adults - correctly answered 98.6 F 37 C Normal Resting Pulse Rate in Older Adults - correctly answered 50 to 90 beats per minute normal respiratory rate in older adults - correctly answered 12 to 20 breaths per min blood pressure on older adults - correctly answered position patient so upper arm is at the same level of the heart orthostatic hypotension - correctly answered sudden drop in blood pressure when a person gose from lying down to sitting up to determine must do several blood pressurs Pulse Deficit - correctly answered When two pulse readings done at the same time come to a different result Normal Respiration changes in older adults - correctly answered Decrease in resting respiration (may show sign for infection) Depth of Respiration decrease irregular breathing rythems Pulse Readings on older adults - correctly answered When checking Radial pulse be gentle pressure could occlude vein elders veins feel lumpy do to loose of elasticity Assessing Respiration - correctly answered asses the Rate Depth Ease of breathing SAMP - correctly answered SPICES - correctly answered Sleep disorders Problems with Eating Or feeding