Nsg Fundamentals Chapter 4 Vocabulary

Paralysis on one side of the body

• Hemiplegia

• Cerebrovascular Accident

• Hemiparesis

• Receptive Aphasia

Difficulty Swallowing

• Cyanotic

• Expressive Aphasia

• Dysphagia

• Impairment

Phrases that are used repeatedly and do not really mean anything.

• Verbal communication

• Bias

• Objective information

• Cliches

The different groups of people with varied backgrounds and experiences who live together in the world.

• Cultural Diversity

• Bias

• Culture

• Cliches

The loss of function or ability.

• Dysphagia

• Expressive aphasia

• Emotional lability

• Impairment

Weakness on one side of the body

• Hemiparesis

• Hemiplegia

• Receptive Aphasia

• Incident

Information that a person cannot or did not observe, but is based on something reported to that person that may or not be true. Also called symptoms.

• Objective Information

• Nonverbal Communication

• Subjective Communication

• Expressive Aphasia

Prejudice

• Emotional Lability

• Cultural Diversity

• Subjective Information

• Bias

The process of exchanging information with others by sending and receiving messages.

• Receptive Aphasia

• Communication

• Expressive Aphasia

• Nonverbal Communication

Skin that is blue or gray.

• Cyanotic

• Hemiparesis

• Dysphagia

• Incident