Exam 7: Communication, Cultural Competence, and Health Promotion

Vocabulary practice flashcards covering communication strategies, CLAS standards, domains of learning, cultural competence, levels of prevention, and risk factors from Exam 7 lecture notes.

Communication

Information shared between the sender and receiver through verbal connection, body language, emotions, and the use of technology or other equipment.

Holding Space

A key communication technique employed by professional nurses, also known as silence, that provides the client with time for reflection and expression.

CLAS (Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services)

Standards that mandate the use of qualified medical interpreters to ensure accuracy, privacy, and impartial communication; nurses are not hired as interpreters and must not interpret medication passes, discharge instructions, or procedure explanations.

Open-Ended Questions

A therapeutic communication approach that encourages the patient to elaborate, express thoughts, and lead the conversation.

Cognitive Domain

The thinking domain of learning that involves comprehending, remembering, and thinking through information, such as explaining medication purposes, risks, or why carbohydrate control matters.

Affective Domain

The feeling domain of learning that involves clients' feelings regarding values, attitudes, beliefs, and emotional responses, such as discussing how weight impacts self-esteem.

Psychomotor Domain

The doing domain of learning that involves physical or mental activities requiring physical skill and coordination, such as correctly performing a finger-stick blood glucose check or self-administering an injection.

Cultural Competence

Care that respects and adapts nursing interventions to clients' cultural beliefs, values, and practices rather than relying on assumptions based on race or ethnicity.

Cultural Self-Awareness

The nurse's practice of examining personal biases before planning client care.

Health Promotion

Nursing care and education aimed at improving overall wellbeing and quality of life, such as teaching a hypertensive patient about exercise and diet.

Primary Prevention

Interventions that prevent disease before it occurs, such as immunizations, wearing sunscreen outdoors, health education, and using CHG wipes before surgery.

Secondary Prevention

Interventions focused on early detection and screening of disease, such as mammograms, Pap smears, colonoscopies for high-risk patients, and annual fecal occult blood tests.

Tertiary Prevention

Interventions focused on reducing complications, restoring function, and ongoing disease management, such as administering insulin to a client with Type 1 diabetes or rehabilitation.

Quaternary Prevention

Care focused on avoiding unnecessary treatment or medical intervention to ensure comfort, such as hospice care.

Modifiable Risk Factors

Health-related factors that can be altered through behavioral change or counseling, such as smoking habits, frequent sunbathing, sustained high stress, and obesity due to lifestyle habits.

Non-Modifiable Risk Factors

Health risk factors that cannot be altered, such as age, genetics, and a family history of hypertension.

Healthy People 2030

A framework establishing evidence-based national health objectives and goals to guide content and improve United States health outcomes over a 10-year period.

Younger Adult Fluid Recommendation

Health promotion guidance advising younger adults to drink about $2500\,\text{mL}$ of water.