NUR 1600 Test 1 vocab
- Fluid and Electrolytes
Answer The proccess of regulating the extracellular fluid volume, body fluid osmolality and plasma concentrations of electrolytes
- Thermoregulation
Answer Process of maintaining core body temperature at a near constant value
- Perfusion
Answer The flow of blood through arteries and capillaries, delivering nutrients and oxygen to cells
- Gas exchange
Answer The process by which oxygen is transported to cells and carbon dioxide is transported from cells
- Infection
Answer The invasion and multiplication of microorganisms in body tissues, which may be clinically unapparent or result in local cellular injury due to competitive metabolism, toxins, intracellular replication, or antigen-antibody response
- Safety
Answer Freedom from accidental injury; ensuring patient safety involves the es- tablishment of operational systems and processes that minimize the likelihood of errors and maximizes the likelihood of intercepting them when they occur
- Professionalism
Answer A sense of oneself and in relation to others , that is influenced by characteristics, norms and 1 / 3
values of the nursing discipline, resulting in an indi- vidual thinking , acting and feeling like a nurse
- Communication
Answer A process of interaction between people in which symbols are used to create, exchange and interpret messages about ideas, emotions and mind states
- Febrile
Answer Fever- having or showing symptoms of a fever
- Afebrile
Answer Not having a fever, free from fever
- Tachypnea
Answer Respiratory rate greater than 20 bpm; high respiratory rate; abnor- mally rapid respiratory rate
- bradypnea
Answer Respiratory rate less than 12 bpm; low respiratory rate; abnormally slow respiratory rate
- Tachycardia
Answer Heart rate greater than 100 bpm; High heart rate; heart rate that is faster than normal
- Bradycardia
Answer Heart rate that is less than 60 bpm; low heart rate; a slower than normal heart rate
- Dyspnea
Answer 2 / 3
Difficult breathing or labored breathing
- Eupnea
Answer Normal and healthy breathing-normal, unlabored breathing; known as resting respiratory rate
- sphygmomanometer
Answer An instrument for measuring blood pressure that con- sists of an inflatable rubber cuff that is applied to the arm and connected to a graduated scale enabling the measurement of systolic and diastolic blood pressure by increasing than gradually releasing the pressure in the cuff
- stethoscope
Answer A medical instrument used to listen to someone's heart or breath- ing. This instrument has a diaphragm and bell side along with two earpieces
- Korotkoff sounds
Answer Generated when a blood pressure cuff changes the flow of blood through the artery
- Vital signs
Answer Clinical measurements that indicate the state of a patients essential body functions including pulse rate , temperature, respiration rate and blood pres- sure
- Hypertensive
Answer abnormally high BP
- hypotensive
- / 3
Answer abnormally low BP