Chapter 24 Key Terms
- Acute pain
- caused by injury, surgery, illness, trauma, or by a medical procedure that is short term in duration
- Ageism
- discrimination against older adults
- Analgesics
- class of drug specifically created to relieve pain
- Anhedonia
- inability to feel pleasure
- Chronic pain
- lasts over three months
- Codependency
- imbalanced relationship where a person enables another person’s self-destructive behavior
- Cognitive impairment
- alteration in cognition that causes a decline in memory and thinking that happens with age and many medical and inherited factors
- Comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA)
- multidisciplinary assessment that identifies the functional, medical, and psychosocial capabilities in an older adult
- Ego integrity
- resolution of crises and acceptance of life in final stages
- Healthy aging
- supporting the body and well-being, including functional ability through aging
- Ineffective coping
- inability to employ personal strategies to manage psychological distress
- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
- medications that provide mild to moderate pain relief and also reduce fever and inflammation by inhibiting the production of prostaglandins
- Opioids
- compound drug that is derived from or synthetically resembles opium and has addictive properties
- Organizational health literacy
- degree to which organizations enable individuals to find, understand, and use information to make informed, health-related decisions
- Outcome
- client behavior that can be measured in response to an intervention used by a nurse
- Pain scales
- tool used to measure pain as reported by clients
- Personal health literacy
- ability to obtain, understand, synthesize, communicate, and apply health-related information
- Pseudodementia
- reversible cognitive impairment caused by severe depression
- Quality of life (QOL)
- extent to which life is comfortable or satisfying
- Self-management
- person’s active involvement in their own health-care decisions and intervention to promote their own best possible wellness with the help of the medical team
- Tolerance
- when the same dose of a drug has been given repeatedly, clients demonstrate a reduced response to pain medication
- Transition of care
- when the same dose of a drug has been given repeatedly, clients demonstrate a reduced response to pain medication
- Worry
- to think about problems or issues that may happen in the future that cause anxiety
caused by injury, surgery, illness, trauma, or by a medical procedure that is short term in duration
discrimination against older adults
class of drug specifically created to relieve pain
inability to feel pleasure
lasts over three months
imbalanced relationship where a person enables another person’s self-destructive behavior
alteration in cognition that causes a decline in memory and thinking that happens with age and many medical and inherited factors
multidisciplinary assessment that identifies the functional, medical, and psychosocial capabilities in an older adult
resolution of crises and acceptance of life in final stages
supporting the body and well-being, including functional ability through aging
inability to employ personal strategies to manage psychological distress
medications that provide mild to moderate pain relief and also reduce fever and inflammation by inhibiting the production of prostaglandins
compound drug that is derived from or synthetically resembles opium and has addictive properties
degree to which organizations enable individuals to find, understand, and use information to make informed, health-related decisions
client behavior that can be measured in response to an intervention used by a nurse
tool used to measure pain as reported by clients
ability to obtain, understand, synthesize, communicate, and apply health-related information
reversible cognitive impairment caused by severe depression
extent to which life is comfortable or satisfying
person’s active involvement in their own health-care decisions and intervention to promote their own best possible wellness with the help of the medical team
as a person continues to use substances, the neurotransmitters adapt and the person demonstrates a reduced response to the substance and requires more of the substance to feel an effect
when the same dose of a drug has been given repeatedly, clients demonstrate a reduced response to pain medication
to think about problems or issues that may happen in the future that cause anxiety
