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NURS2518 Class 1 Questions And 100%Correct Answers
What do we assess in older client?
Assess the impact of the normal aging process on the concepts included in this cours
Who is an older adult?
65+
Depending on a lot of factors as two ages can look the same
What do we analyze in older clients?
Analyze the interaction of age-related changes, risk factors and functional
consequences for older adults.
We should develop nursing interventions in order to:
Develop nursing interventions to encourage, maintain and enhance independence
(optimize their functional ability) in older adults.
Value the _______ and ____ of older adults:
Individuality and personhood
Functional ability is impacted by ______________. These include:
Health disparities
These include:
-cognition, stress and coping, mood and affect, thermoregulations, tissue integrity and
,oral health, sensory perception, mobility and safety, elimination.
What is the nursing model?
- A model is a way of representing a situation inLogical terms in order to show the
structure of the original idea and subject. (Mckenna, 1997)
• It is the simplified way of organizing a complex phenomenon. A model describes but
doesn't explain.
Life course theory:
The social and historical context of a person's life:
-What happens in your younger life will affect what happens to you in later life (social
and cultural contex
-People experience events differently and it will have different effects on them (different
effect on their emotions, their physical selves and their psychological selves)
-Things can happen that can change the course of life (it is not predictable)
The ICF Model: what does ICF stand for?
International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health Model (ICF model)
Clinical Judgment Measurement Model:
Recognizing: recognizing cues
Analyzing : analyzing cues
Prioritizing: prioritizing hypothesis
Generating: generating solutions
Taking Evaluating: taking actions
What is normal again and being older? individual perspective:
Individuals in the age range associated with being an older adult (65 and older) are
more heterogenous than any other age group.
, Lifespan:
The period of time between birth and death
Life expectancy:
Statistical measure of the average time expected to live
Life span and life expectancy are _______:
Population based
Describe the western/biomedical system: (what is disease, assessment, and
treatment?)
- Disease is the result of abnormalities in the structure and function of body organs and
system, often causes by an invasion of germs.
- Assessment and diagnosis are directed at identifying the pathogen or the reason for
the abnormality using laboratory and other investigative procedures.
- Treatment is to remove or destory the invading organism or repairing, modifying, or
removing the affected body part.
Population based
Focused on housed population rather than an individual (this includes a community,
region or country)
Describe Personalistic or Magico-religious system: (what is illness, what is health, and
how do we treat illness?)
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