NUR 163 (nur163)

163 Week 3 Pre-Class Student Worksheets Note to students: This class session builds on the concept of safety you learned in Nursing 150. The thinking skills you learned in Nursing 155 are in italics listed with the tasks. Reading assignments as per weekly outline. Complete these worksheets. You will share/use your work during class. The Concept of Safety Definition from Giddens: Safety is: 1. Freedom from accidental injury; ensuring patient safety involves the establishment of operatio...

163 Week 2 Pre-Class Student Worksheets Note to students: This class session builds on taking a health history and collecting assessment data information you learned in Nursing 150, week 6. Please review the information from that week for both the classroom session and the skills lab sessions. Reading assignments as per weekly outline. Complete these worksheets. You will share/use your work during class. Health Promotion definition: Behaviors that promote optimal health across the lifes...

Pre-Class Student Worksheets Note to students: This class session builds on the concept of cognition you learned in Nursing 150. The thinking skills you learned in Nursing 155 are in italics listed with the tasks. Reading assignments as per weekly outline. Complete these worksheets. You will share/use your work during class. Giddens talks about types of cognition which includes perception, memory, and executive function. Define each of these terms: Perception Interpretation of the envir...

163 Week 4.2 Pre-Class Student Worksheets Note to students: This class session builds on the concept of nutrition you learned in Nursing 150. The topic of fluid and electrolyte balance starts today with the connection to nutrition in the elderly and continues in week 5 during the second class. The information from this class will be on your exam next week. The thinking skills you learned in Nursing 155 are in italics listed with the tasks. Reading assignments as per weekly outline. Compl...

163 Week 7 Pre-Class Assignments Student Worksheets Note to students: This class session introduces the concept of mobility that also will be addressed in Nursing 160 this week and next week. Complete these worksheets. You will share/use your work during class. Task Determining the importance of information Watch this video: Draw some conclusions about what you as a nurse can/should do based on this information. Task Identifying signs and symptoms List the changes with aging related ...

163 Week 4.1 Pre-Class Student Worksheets Note to students: This class session builds on the concept of cognition you learned in Nursing 150. The thinking skills you learned in Nursing 155 are in italics listed with the tasks. Reading assignments as per weekly outline. Complete these worksheets. You will share/use your work during class. Giddens talks about types of cognition which includes perception, memory, and executive function. Define each of these terms: Perception Interpretatio...

Nur163 Exam 2 Review What does stress do to the elderly patient?  Changes in Eating Patterns, such as over-eating or loss of appetite.  Mood Swings – increased irritability  Memory Issues – Increased forgetfulness of names, places, things that normally come naturally. Lack of concentration may become a problem.  Isolation of themselves from others, refusing to socialize or participate in activities they previously enjoyed. Physical Signs of Stress  Increased pulse, inc...

NUR163 Week 3, Day 1 Concept of Safety for the Older Adult Safety – Freedom from accidental injuries, ensuring patient safety involves the establishment of operational systems and processes that minimize the likelihood of errors and maximizes the likelihood of intercepting them when they occur. Safe Care – Avoiding injuries to patients from the care that is intended to help them.  Safe Care involves making evidence based clinical decisions to maximize the health outcomes of an indi...

Nursing 163 Exam Review Primary Care /Prevention –  To protect patients from developing a disease. Patient education on immunizations, regular exercise and good nutrition, counseling about dangers of tobacco and drugs and alcohol. Secondary Care/Prevention –  Catch the disease/diagnosis. Screenings for those with risk factors for illness. Tertiary Care –  Treating/Stopping progression (Cardiac Rehab) Benefits of Diet  Better Health  Disease prevention  Healing...

NUR163 Week 3, Day 2 Morse Fall Scale A quick and easy method of assessing a patient’s likelihood of falling. Thermoregulation  Balance between heat production mechanisms and heat loss mechanisms that occur to maintain a constant body temp.  Controlled by hypothalamus  Heat is produced by metabolic processes and by muscular activity such as shivering and conserved by vasoconstriction  Heat is lost through vasodilation and perspiration Can be affected by numerous internal ...