Nurs3066 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

empowerment - both a process and an outcome arising from reciprocal interactions among people linking autonomy with accountability, involving shared or transferred power and achieving the ultimate goal of greater access to financial resources or intangible benefits such as knowledge and influence oppression - systems of interrelated restrictions and constraints that diminish, immobilize and fashion people, resulting in subordination to others. consequence of societal norms, laws and u...

What does assessment mean? - collection of data about an individual's health state Subjective data - what the subject says about themselves during assessment Objective Data - what you sense during assessment process see, hear, smell, feel Database - entire patient's file, including lab studies Diagnostic reasoning: - analyzing all data and drawing conclusions to identify diagnosis First-Level Priority - emergent, life threatening

Cranial nerves 1 - 6 - 1. Olfactory 2. Optic 3. Oculomotor 4. Trochlear 5. Trigeminal 6. Abducens cranial nerves 7 - 12 - 7- Facial (facial expression, wrinkle forehead, taste anterior tongue 8- Vestibulocochlear (auditory acuity, balance and postural responses 9- Glossopharyngeal (taste on posterior 33% of the scale) 10- Vagus (cardiac, respiratory reflexes) 11- Spinal Accessory (strength of trapezius and sternocleidomastoid muscles 12- Hypoglossal (motor function of the tongue)