APTC Acronym (Psychosocial)

Assessment of Learning Capacity:

Attending

Perceiving

Thinking

Comprehending

Nursing Abbreviations!

Some abbreviations that may help you when charting!

Nursing Exam Number Two :x

Exam 2 is in less than 2 days. I'm officially stressed!!!!!!!!

Caffeine, index cards, YouTube, class recordings, lecture/lab/clinical notes will be my life until 8am Tuesday morning!!!!

I remember saying this all summer... 

Hahaha

 HAPPY STUDIES TO ALL!

Respiratory - Nursing

Some visuals to aid in Respiratory assessments, charting and general resp nursing knowledge!!!:

^respiratory breathing patterns

^another picture of breath sounds. Displays inspiration & expiration visual 

^tips/what to look for and note for nursing students during the assessment!

^s/s of a COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) patient. COPD is a type of emphysema. 

^look for these s/s in an (pulmonary) EMPHYSEMIC patient 

^great reference pictures to use in resp assessment during auscultation in locating lobes of lungs

^cute relations picture of the system as a whole 

^adventitious(aka abnormal) lung sounds, relatable imagery and relatable descriptions

^where to auscultate on patient's back when listening to lung sounds

^ characteristics of lung sounds! Type, duration, intensity & pitch (EXPIRATORY) and where you can hear the corresponding type of sound on patients. 

^terms to recognize, learn and memorize. When we are nurses we may know them all! One day.. It seems so far!

Cardiac - Nursing

Great photos in reference to Cardiac nursing care/Cardiac knowledge!!

When listening (auscultating) the heart, S1 (lubb) & S2 (dub)

Heart rhythms displayed on cookies!!!! (All abnormal excluding first *normal cookie)

Mnemonic to memorize the blood flow through the heart's valves! 

HYPOXIA

Physiologic & Psychosocial Integrity (health integrity) - Nursing

You will find very useful tools in ths specific blog post in providing individualistic nursing care to all different/individual patients that all require different needs in terms of their physiological needs, social needs, psych needs & cultural needs!

Every patient is an individual therefore, every patient needs individual care!!!

^index card I made to separate the physiologic factors from the psychosocial factors to consider when caring for a patient/assessing

^some quick tips when it comes to an APHASIC patient

^aspects a nurse should immediately recognize, pay attention to, and record (chart it)

^patient with DEMENTIA. There are 66 types of dementia, Alzheimer's being the most common*

ERIK ERIKSON'S Stages of Psychosocial Development:

^ helpful visual

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Human needs: Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

Here are 3 charts with examples for you to better apply & recognize these needs in patients:

1, FIRST CHART integrates pictures and icons as well as descriptive word examples:

2, SECOND CHART includes examples using words and mind clouds(titles):

3, THIRD CHART includes picture (objects & people displaying need), dialect, words: