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Skin-largest organ system in the body -first line of defense -prevents water loss/electrolytes -regulates body temp. through sweat production and evaporation -composed of: 1. epidermis 2. dermis 3. subcutaneous Epidermisprotective layer -outer avascular layer composed of dense squamous cells which are replaced every 4 weeks -keratinocytes and melanocytes (brown tones to skin) Dermissupportive later -origin of hair, nails, sebaceous glands, eccrine glands, apocrine sweat glands -collage...

What is inspection?Concentrated watching What should you do when inspecting?- Compare patient's right side with left side - Use good light - Obtain adequate exposure of PT What is palpation?Using touch to assess What should you do when palpating?- Texture - Temperature - Moisture - Organ location/size - Swelling - Vibration/Pulsation - Rigidity/Spasticity

Precordiumanterior chest- directly over heart and great vessels mediastinummiddle third of thoracic cage- heart and great vessels are here Great vesslesmajor arteries and veins connected to the heart -located between the lungs -middle third of the thoracic cage (mediastinum)ôo Pericardiumtough, fibroud double walled sac that surrounds and protects the heart -consists of 2 layers -few mL of pericardial fluid -adheres to great vessels, esophagus, sternum, pleurae and anchored to dia

Four lobes of the brain1. Frontal 2. Parietal 3. Occipital 4. Temporal Wernicke's areatemporal lobe speech comprehension dominant hemisphere damage leads to RECEPTIVE aphasia Broca's areaFrontal lobe motor speech

CCCFormerly the HHCC, developed by Saba, used at first to predict resource use in home care for Medicare and Medicaid, now in all clinical areas. Clinical Care Classification Nursing Management Minimum Data SetNMDS for management nurses Nursing Minimum Data Set16 pieces of data that nurses can collect to compare data from different settings and regions. Has 3 categories: 1) Nursing Care 2) Client/patient demographics 3)service ICNPANA recognized, developed by the International Council o...

NMMDSNursing Management Minimum Data Set Informatics NurseA nurse with specialized skills, knowledge, and competencies in informatics. An RN with an interest or experience working in an informatics field. A generalist in the field of informatics in nursing. Does not have formal education in informatics. Nursing InformaticsThe science and practice that integrates nursing, its information, and knowledge. Manages and communicates data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing pract...

Digital Divide term used to describe the gap between those who have and those who do not have access to online information ePatient internet patient; health consumer who uses the internet to gather information about a medical condition of particular interest to them and who uses electronic communication tools in coping with medical conditions. As it has evolved, there has been less emphasis on Internet access and technology and a contention that the "e" in "e-patient" stands for ...

ABC Codesfive-digit Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliant alpha codes used by licensed and non-licensed healthcare practitioners on standard healthcare claim forms to describe services, remedies and/or supply items provided and/or used during patient visits. Dataraw fact Ex: 140 lb Informationdata that are organized or structured Example: Data = 140 lb. Information = 23 year old male, 5'11", 140 lb, little physical activity Knowledgefacts, information...

s like an object constructor, or a "blueprint" for creating objects.Class causes the program control to transfer back to the caller of a method.Return Statement Can access the public modifier from anywhere. Can access public modifiers from within the class as well as from outside the class and also within the package and outside the package.Public Can access the protected modifier within the same package and also from outside the package with the help of the child class. If they do no...

Inheritance Single inheritance enables a derived class to inherit properties and behavior from a single parent class. Multiple inheritance When a class is derived from multiple base classes Multi-level inheritance Hybrid inheritance Use of multiple types of inheritance Function overloading The ability of two functions with the same name but different parameters to exist in the same program or class. Templates A formula or blueprint for creating a generic class or a function