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Class Notes - Intro to Nursing
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- NUR 1055 Intro To Nursing
- Institution
- Rasmussen College
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Intro to Nursing – Class Notes 1Module 1:
• Professionalizing nursing: began with Florence Nightingale
• High intellectual level
o Assessment skills and knowledge
• High level of individual responsibility and accountability
o Typical targets for malpractice suits
• Specialized body of knowledge
o Evidence-based research
• Evidence-based practice
o Information technologies play a crucial role.
o Almost all current theories of nursing have evidence-based work as a vital role.
• ANA
o American Nursing Association
• Language of Medicine
o Come from Latin and Greek
o Medical words are composed of word elements, also known as word parts:
§ Word root (WR)
§ Combining form (CF)
§ Suffix
§ Prefix
o Root Word
§ Foundation of the word that contains its meaning.
• Examples:
o Hepat in hepatitis
o Tonsil in tonsillectomy
o Gastr in gastrinoma
o Combining form
§ It is created when a word root is combined with a vowel, known as a combining
vowel. Usually an “O”, but not always.
• Examples:
o Mamm/o in mamm/o/gram
o Psych/o in psycho/o/logy
o Suffix
§ Word element placed at the end of a word.
• Examples:
o -ectomy in append/ectomy
o Prefix
§ Word element placed at the beginning of a word.
• Examples:
o Hyper- in hyper/tension
o Hemi- in hemi/plegia
• Medical Words
o Hepat = Liver
o Gastr = Stomach
§ Gastr/o/enter/itis = inflammation of the stomach lining and intestines
o Erythr = Red
, Intro to Nursing – Class Notes 2
o Nephr = Kidney
o Therm = Heat
o Card = Heart
o Brady = Slow/Low
o Tachy = Fast/High
o Stomat = Mouth
o Osteo = Bone
o Derm = Skin
o Enter = Intestines
o Intra = Within
§ Intra/derm/al = Inside the skin
§ Itis = Inflammation
o Cyan = Blue
o Pallor = Pale
o Hypo = Slow/Low
o Hyper = Fast/High
§ Hyper/lipid/emia = High Cholesterol in the Blood
§ Hyper/glyc/emia = High Blood Sugar
o Ia = Condition
§ A/norex/ia = Without/Appetite/Condition
o Al = Relating/Pertaining
§ Gastro/esophagus/al = Stomach/Esophagus/About
• About the esophageal and stomach.
o A = Without
§ A/Neur = Without urine
§ Asystole = Without heartbeat.
§ A/Noxia = Without oxygen
o Neur = Urine
o Rhea = Runny/Flowing
§ Diar/rhea
o Esthes = Feeling/Sensation
§ Anesthesia= Without feeling condition
o Megaly = Irregular enlargement of something.
§ Cardiomegaly = Enlargement of the heart
o Supra = Above
o Peri = Around/Surrounding
§ Pericarditis = Inflammation around the heart.
o Osis = Disease or condition of
§ Hematosis = Condition/Disease of the blood
§ Scoliosis = Abnormal curvature of the spine
§ Kyphosis
o Ectomy = Removal
o Oma = Tumor
§ Osteoma = tumor of the bone
§ Lymphoma = Tumor of the lymph nodes
o Chondro = Cartilage
, Intro to Nursing – Class Notes 3
o Pneumo/noultra/microscopics/silic/o/volcan/o/con/io/sis
§ Lung/extremely/tiny/sand/self-evident/scarring
• Lung disease caused by
o Carcinoma = Cancerous tumor
o Cyesis = Pregnancy
o Cyte = Cell
o Emesis = Vomiting
§ Hematemesis = Vomiting blood
o Stenosis = Narrowing
o Sclerosis = Hardening
o Stasis = Stop movement
o Therm = Temperature
o Abdomin/o = Abdomen
o Aden/o = Gland
o Neo = New
o Hist = Issue
o Lapar = Abdominal
o My/o – Muscle
o Neur/o -= Nerves
o Or/o =Ear
o Path/o = Disease
o Thorac = Chest
o Endo = Within
o Exo = Outside
o Intra = Inside
o Inter = Between
• Words that Show the location
o Supra = Above
o Para = Next to/beside
o Peri = Surrounding
o Ambi = Both sides
o Retro = Behind
o Sub = Below
o Epi = Above
o Trans = Through
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