State Nursing Exam Review 10

Vocabulary flashcards covering core nursing concepts, legal and statutory frameworks in New Zealand, psychiatric principles, assessment findings, and clinical pathologies from State Exams 10.

Intellectual nursing skills

The critical thinking skills that assist the nurse in appropriately setting priorities during client care.

Carotid artery

The most common peripheral pulse site utilized for obtaining a pulse in an emergency situation.

Culturally safe nursing practice

Nursing practice that involves using appropriate resources to meet the identified needs of clients.

Bradycardia

A condition characterized by an adult pulse rate below normal, such as an adult male client presenting with a pulse of $52\text{ beats per minute}$.

Feedback

The process in effective communication by which the receiver's reception and comprehension of the sender's message are verified.

Evaluation phase

The phase of the nursing process that measures the client's response to nursing interventions and their progress toward achieving goals, using the client as the primary source of data.

Planning step

The stage of the nursing process dedicated to setting goals and selecting interventions.

Nursing care plan

A written guideline developed for the implementation and evaluation of patient care.

Nursing Council of New Zealand

A statutory body responsible for administering the Nurses Act, approving schools of nursing, issuing practising certificates, and maintaining disciplinary jurisdiction.

Nurses Act 1977

The parliamentary act granting the Nursing Council disciplinary jurisdiction over registered and enrolled nurses, and governing professional standards and examinations.

Registrar of the Nursing Council

The official to whom formal legal complaints made against nurses in any employment setting must be addressed.

Coroner's case

A legally reportable death, which includes unexplained deaths, deaths without an established cause, and unexpected deaths occurring within $24\text{ hours}$ of hospital admission or surgery.

Splitting

A defense mechanism where an individual categorizes people or situations in black-and-white extremes, such as perceiving one nurse as entirely good while labeling the rest of the team as hostile.

Haloperidol (Serenace)

An antipsychotic medication used in psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia, for which extrapyramidal symptoms are the most common adverse effect.

Hallucination

A sensory perception experienced in the absence of external stimuli, demonstrated by behaviors such as laughing, yelling, or talking aloud to oneself.

Schizophrenia

A psychiatric disorder primarily characterized by disturbed relationships related to an inability to communicate and think clearly.

Retina

The innermost anatomical layer of the eye.

Section 30 of the Mental Health Act (1992)

The statutory provision specifying that an inpatient treatment order lasts for a period of $6\text{ months}$.

Section 111 of the Mental Health Act (1992)

The statutory clause permitting the detention of a person admitted to the hospital who is considered mentally disordered for up to $6\text{ hours}$.

Autoimmunity

A pathological immune process involving the formation of antibodies in the blood that attack and destroy an individual's healthy cells.

Raised erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR)

A diagnostic indicator elevated in rheumatoid arthritis because alterations in blood proteins cause red blood cells to become heavier and settle faster.

Hyphaema

Haemorrhage into the anterior chamber of the eye following a surgical procedure such as cataract extraction.

Eczema

A non-contagious inflammatory response of the skin, often linked to an environmental hypersensitivity.

Vesicle

A dermatological finding defined as a small skin blister filled with serous fluid.

Respiratory alkalosis

An acid-base disturbance caused by hyperventilation due to excessive elimination of carbon dioxide.

Pulse pressure

The mathematical difference between the measured systolic and diastolic blood pressures.