NURS 1730 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Insomnia, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Macular Degeneration
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Week Twelve: April 2 - 6 2018
Introduction to Nursing II
Exam Review Session
Exam Breakdown
60% of content on exam will be new content.
- Movement Disorders (parkinson's disease/tremors/basal ganglia, sleep disorders
(hypersomnia)
- Falls prevention and environmental safety
- Pain and symptom management
- Ethics
- Transitions in health aging
- Issues in aging (driving screening, complementary therapies)
40% of content from the second midterm back.
- Theories of aging
- Physiological changes in aging*
- Chronicity and disability
- Elimination (GI and Urinary)
- Cognition
- Vascular and respiratory health
- Mental health (anxiety/depression and coping)
- Palliative Care
- Evidence-based practice (threaded throughout)
Read Chapter Summaries ⇒
Read the nursing care plans that are in your textbook (for the case studies)
Read the slideshows and the chapter summaries
→ Cross-reference powerpoint slides with readings
→ Don’t study in silos: Think about:
- The relationships among the content.
- What type of questions could be asked about the content;
knowledge-based questions through application and
evaluation.
Ask “what framework/theory can help me answer this question?”
- Leininger
- Cultural care theory
- Health belief model
- Roy’s adaptation theory
- Health promotion model
- Orem’s Theory
- Maslow's hierarchy of needs → go to for prioritization!
- Determinants of health
- Nursing process
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Document Summary
60% of content on exam will be new content. Movement disorders (parkinson"s disease/tremors/basal ganglia, sleep disorders (hypersomnia) 40% of content from the second midterm back. Read the nursing care plans that are in your textbook (for the case studies) What type of questions could be asked about the content; knowledge-based questions through application and evaluation. Ask what framework/theory can help me answer this question? . Maslow"s hierarchy of needs go to for prioritization! Communication pick out most therapeutic response. Why responses are almost always wrong because it puts judgement on patient. Never or always in a question are distractors" - they are absolutes. Stop yourself if you find yourself asking what-if . Don"t change answers without absolute rationale most of the time your hung is correct; you may not know why because brain can"t draw out information at that time.
