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Unit 2 Study Guide Understand about health, illness, and wellness: (CHP 17 p. 295 & PP Health Promotion and Disease Prevention) Health - is the state of complete physical, mental (emotional), and social (including spiritual) well-being, not merely the absence of disease. Health is holistic in nature; it’s the full expression of a person’s physical, emotional, social and spiritual potential. It’s a dynamic state in which the person continuously adapts to changes in the internal and external environments

inflatable cuff which goes around your upper arm, a small pump to push air into the cuff and a column of mercury (or a dial) to record the pressure within the cuff. As the cuff is inflated with air, the person measuring your BP usually feels for a pulse (brachial artery) in the crook of your elbow. While the pressure within your artery stays higher than that in the cuff, blood can be felt pulsing through. Once the pressure in the cuff becomes greater than that in your artery, the vessel is squashed

condition is life threatening and could be worsened by thrombolytics or anti aggregates, hence it is necessary to detect. The pain is sharp, tearing, and severe and radiates to the back. The pain is pleuritic in nature and associated with a loss of pulses (Longo et al., 2011). Non-cardiovascular causes of chest pain include musculoskeletal conditions such as costochondritis. The pain is usually localized and the patient is able to pin point the exact location of the pain. The pain is increased by

positioned so the cuffs artery marker pointed to the brachial artery. Next the sphygmomanometer was wrapped tightly around the arm. On the same arm that the sphygmomanometer placed, the arm was palpated at the crease of the arm to locate the strongest pulse and the bell of the stethoscope was placed over the brachial artery at this location. Using the cuff bulb, the cuff was inflated until no sounds were heard through the stethoscope. Once this point was reached the cuff was slowly deflated and listening

Health assessment is important for both the patient and the nurse as it helps draw the baseline of the healthcare that the patient is to receive (Jeanfreau et al., 2010). The aim of this assessment piece is gain an understanding on the purpose of health assessment in a healthcare setting and how, depending on the age of a client, it will be conducted differently. In this essay, the following will be included, definition of the term, health assessment, a brief description on the major components of

1. Pathophysiology of Postoprative Hypovolaemia and the body’s compensation mechanisms: Presented with the post-operative assessments of Mr. George Jensen who suffered from an open fracture of his right tibia and fibula and underwent an Open Reduction and External Fixation procedure, a nurse can tell that he is experiencing post-operative Hypovolaemia. Hypovolaemia pertains to an abnormal loss of blood volume and body fluid. It is a life-threatening condition brought on by low blood venous return

sitting, radial pulse rate was 84, pulse ox was 92, respirations were 20, and her temporal temperature was 97.6 ˚ F. L.F.’s radial pulses were equal in both arms. She was able to grasp my fingers equally and strongly with both hands. Her capillary refill lasted one to two seconds. Her breath sounds were normal and clear without productive or nonproductive coughing. L.F.’s apical pulse was 75 with a normal rate and rhythm, and her aortic, pulmonic, erb’s point, tricuspid, and mitral pulses had a normal

identifying the patient, we were informed about bed rails, bed position, and call lights (#C2, #C4). The last part of the day involved assessing vital signs, including; temperature (oral, rectal, axillary, and tympanic), assessing pulses, respiratory rates, blood pressure, pulse oximeter assessment, and measuring height and weight. Nurses use vital signs as a starting point and they can learn a lot a person and s/he ailments immediately from this information (#C2). Reflection Our clinical instructor

He measured their resting pulses. Their pulses were 45, 45, 64, 50, 58, 49, 47, 55, 50, 52 beats per minute. The average resting pulse of athletes in the general population is normally distributed with a pulse rate of 60 beats per minute. a. What statistical test should be used to analyze the data? For this statistical test we can use the single sample research t-test, predicting that the runner pulse will be slower than the other athlete pulses. b. Is this a

The hypothesis states that if the intensity of exercise increases then the heart pulse and breathing rate will increase when the treadmill incline, time interval between and during sets and equipment used are all kept constant. When humans exercise, the heart speeds up to pump more oxygen into the muscles and this is why the breathing and heart rate increase. The heart rate automatically increases as we exercise, due to the circulatory system, as blood needs to flow around the body faster. Furthermore