N109: Foundations in Nursing Practice

N109: Foundations in Nursing Practice Study Guide Part of the retina that contains only cone cells; primarily responsible for visual acuity. • Functional Independence Measure (FIM): The most widely accepted functional assessment measure in use in the rehabilitation community. • Gate Control Theory of Pain: The pain theory which states that there are controls within the connections of the nervous system that determine whether a stimulus gets through to the brain to produce a perception of pain. • Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS): A 30-item, self-report assessment designed to identify depression in the elderly. • Glaucoma: A group of eye conditions that lead to damage to the optic nerve, the nerve that carries visual information from the eye to the brain. • Grief: A bereaved person’s internal emotional response to a loss. • Grief, abbreviated: Grief that is genuine, but brief. • Grief, anticipatory: Grieg that occurs prior to the actual loss as an individual prepares for and grieves the loss to come. • Grief, delayed: The intentional postponement of grief. • Grief, disenfranchised: When a grieving individual cannot openly acknowledge his grief, or is one that society does not accept as real. • Grief, exaggerated: An intense reaction to the loss that may include nightmares, delinquent behaviors, phobias (abnormal fears), and thoughts of suicide. • Grief, inhibited: An unhealthy reaction that occurs when an individual denies or does not acknowledge a loss and suppresses many of the normal symptoms. • Grief, normal: Grief that is eventually lessened as a person readjusts to his loss. • Grief, unresolved: The grieving person has trouble finding closure and returning to normal activities over an extended amount of time. • Growth: An increase in size over time that can be measured. • Healthy People 2020: An initiative that provides 10-year national objectives for improving the health of Americans. • Hyperopia: This is also called farsightedness, which results in greater difficulty seeing near objects than distant objects. • Incus: Also called the anvil, it is one of the three bony ossicles that receives vibrations from the malleus and passes it to the stapes. • Iris: This muscular structure that helps to control the amount of light entering the eye. • Labyrinthitis: An ear disorder that involves irritation and swelling of the inner ear. • Lens: The flexible curved structure in the eye that changes shape to focus light rays onto the retina. • Living will: One type of advance directive and may take effect when a patient has been deemed terminally ill. • Livor mortis: Dependent discoloration of the tissue in the body after death. • LOCATES: An acronym used for characteristics of pain (location, other associated symptoms, • Fovea:

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