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50 relations: ABC (medicine), Activities of daily living, Anxiety, Assessment, Auscultation, Barthel scale, Blood pressure, Braden Scale for Predicting Pressure Ulcer Risk, Circulatory system, Clanging, Coherence therapy, Depression (mood), Electronic health record, Glasgow Coma Scale, Hallucination, Human musculoskeletal system, Idiolect, Illusion, Insight, Medical history, Medical record, Medical sign, Mental health, Mood (psychology), Nausea, Nursing, Nursing diagnosis, Nursing process, Open-ended question, Pain scale, Palpation, Patient, Percussion (medicine), Physical examination, Physiology, Pressure ulcer, Prioritization, Psychological evaluation, Psychology, Pulse, Registered nurse, Respiratory rate, Sociology, Sphygmomanometer, Spirituality, Symptom, Temperature, Triage, Vertigo, Waterlow score.
ABC (medicine)
ABC and its variations are initialism mnemonics for essential steps used by both medical professionals and lay persons (such as first aiders) when dealing with a patient.
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Activities of daily living
Activities of daily living (ADLs or ADL) is a term used in healthcare to refer to people's daily self care activities.
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Anxiety
Anxiety is an emotion characterized by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil, often accompanied by nervous behaviour such as pacing back and forth, somatic complaints, and rumination.
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Assessment
Assessment may refer to.
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Auscultation
Auscultation (based on the Latin verb auscultare "to listen") is listening to the internal sounds of the body, usually using a stethoscope.
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Barthel scale
The Barthel scale or Barthel ADL index is an ordinal scale used to measure performance in activities of daily living (ADL).
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Blood pressure
Blood pressure (BP) is the pressure of circulating blood on the walls of blood vessels.
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Braden Scale for Predicting Pressure Ulcer Risk
The Braden Scale for Predicting Pressure Ulcer Risk, is a tool that was developed in 1987 by Barbara Braden and Nancy Bergstrom.
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Circulatory system
The circulatory system, also called the cardiovascular system or the vascular system, is an organ system that permits blood to circulate and transport nutrients (such as amino acids and electrolytes), oxygen, carbon dioxide, hormones, and blood cells to and from the cells in the body to provide nourishment and help in fighting diseases, stabilize temperature and pH, and maintain homeostasis.
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Clanging
In psychology and psychiatry, clanging refers to a mode of speech characterized by association of words based upon sound rather than concepts.
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Coherence therapy
Coherence therapy is a system of psychotherapy based in the theory that symptoms of mood, thought and behavior are produced coherently according to the person's current mental models of reality, most of which are implicit and unconscious.
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Depression (mood)
Depression is a state of low mood and aversion to activity that can affect a person's thoughts, behavior, tendencies, feelings, and sense of well-being.
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Electronic health record
An electronic health record (EHR), or electronic medical record (EMR), is the systematized collection of patient and population electronically-stored health information in a digital format.
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Glasgow Coma Scale
The Glasgow coma scale (GCS) is a neurological scale which aims to give a reliable and objective way of recording the conscious state of a person for initial as well as subsequent assessment.
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Hallucination
A hallucination is a perception in the absence of external stimulus that has qualities of real perception.
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Human musculoskeletal system
The human musculoskeletal system (also known as the locomotor system, and previously the activity system) is an organ system that gives humans the ability to move using their muscular and skeletal systems.
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Idiolect
Idiolect is an individual's distinctive and unique use of language, including speech.
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Illusion
An illusion is a distortion of the senses, which can reveal how the human brain normally organizes and interprets sensory stimulation.
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Insight
Insight is the understanding of a specific cause and effect within a specific context.
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Medical history
The medical history or case history of a patient is information gained by a physician by asking specific questions, either of the patient or of other people who know the person and can give suitable information, with the aim of obtaining information useful in formulating a diagnosis and providing medical care to the patient.
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Medical record
The terms medical record, health record, and medical chart are used somewhat interchangeably to describe the systematic documentation of a single patient's medical history and care across time within one particular health care provider's jurisdiction.
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Medical sign
A medical sign is an objective indication of some medical fact or characteristic that may be detected by a patient or anyone, especially a physician, before or during a physical examination of a patient.
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Mental health
Mental health is a level of psychological well-being or an absence of mental illness.
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Mood (psychology)
In psychology, a mood is an emotional state.
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Nausea
Nausea or queasiness is an unpleasant sense of unease, discomfort, and revulsion towards food.
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Nursing
Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life.
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Nursing diagnosis
A nursing diagnosis may be part of the nursing process and is a clinical judgment about individual, family, or community experiences/responses to actual or potential health problems/life processes.
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Nursing process
The nursing process is a modified scientific method.
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Open-ended question
An open-ended question cannot be answered with a "yes" or "no" response, or with a static response.
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Pain scale
A pain scale measures a patient's pain intensity or other features.
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Palpation
Palpation is the process of using one's hands to check the body, especially while perceiving/diagnosing a disease or illness.
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Patient
A patient is any recipient of health care services.
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Percussion (medicine)
Percussion is a method of tapping on a surface to determine the underlying structure, and is used in clinical examinations to assess the condition of the thorax or abdomen.
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Physical examination
A physical examination, medical examination, or clinical examination (more popularly known as a check-up) is the process by which a medical professional investigates the body of a patient for signs of disease.
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Physiology
Physiology is the scientific study of normal mechanisms, and their interactions, which work within a living system.
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Pressure ulcer
Pressure ulcers, also known as pressure sores, pressure injuries, bedsores, and decubitus ulcers, are localized damage to the skin and/or underlying tissue that usually occur over a bony prominence as a result of pressure or pressure in combination with shear and/or friction.
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Prioritization
Prioritization is the activity that arranges items or activities in order of importance relative to each other.
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Psychological evaluation
Psychological evaluation is defined as a way of assessing an individual's behavior, personality, cognitive abilities, and several other domains.
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Psychology
Psychology is the science of behavior and mind, including conscious and unconscious phenomena, as well as feeling and thought.
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Pulse
In medicine, a pulse represents the tactile arterial palpation of the heartbeat by trained fingertips.
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Registered nurse
A Registered Nurse (RN) is a nurse who has graduated from a nursing program and met the requirements outlined by a country, state, province or similar licensing body to obtain a nursing license.
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Respiratory rate
The respiratory rate is the rate at which breathing occurs.
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Sociology
Sociology is the scientific study of society, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and culture.
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Sphygmomanometer
A sphygmomanometer, also known as a blood pressure meter, blood pressure monitor, or blood pressure gauge, is a device used to measure blood pressure, composed of an inflatable cuff to collapse and then release the artery under the cuff in a controlled manner, and a mercury or mechanical manometer to measure the pressure.
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Spirituality
Traditionally, spirituality refers to a religious process of re-formation which "aims to recover the original shape of man," oriented at "the image of God" as exemplified by the founders and sacred texts of the religions of the world.
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Symptom
A symptom (from Greek σύμπτωμα, "accident, misfortune, that which befalls", from συμπίπτω, "I befall", from συν- "together, with" and πίπτω, "I fall") is a departure from normal function or feeling which is noticed by a patient, reflecting the presence of an unusual state, or of a disease.
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Temperature
Temperature is a physical quantity expressing hot and cold.
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Triage
Triage is the process of determining the priority of patients' treatments based on the severity of their condition.
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Vertigo
Vertigo is a symptom where a person feels as if they or the objects around them are moving when they are not.
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Waterlow score
The Waterlow score (or Waterlow scale) gives an estimated risk for the development of a pressure sore in a given patient.
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursing_assessment
