NURS1012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lymph Node, Alcoholism, Exudate
NURS1012- NURSING CARE LECTURE 1
NURSING AND MIDWIFERY BOARD OF AUSTRALIA
- Regulate Australia’s Nurses and Midwives
GROWTH
- Physical change
- Increase in size
- Measured quantitatively
- EG. Height, weight head circumference
DEVELOPMENT
- Increase in complexity of function and skill progression
- Capacity and skill of a person to adapt to the environment
- Behavioural aspect of growth
- EG. Learning to walk, run, talk
GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
- Independent but interrelated
- GROWTH: first 20 years
- DEVELOPMENT: during / after growth
LIFESPAN STAGES
NEONATAL (BIRTH - 28 DAYS)
- Behaviour largely reflexive
- Develops to more purposeful behaviour
INFANCY (1 MONTH - 1 YR)
- Physical growth rapid
TODDLERHOOD (1 - 3 YRS)
- Motor development permits increased physical autonomy
- Psychosocial skills increase
PRESCHOOL (3 - 6 YRS)
- New experiences and social role tried during play
- Physical growth slows
- School age (6-12)
- Skills improve Includes preadolescent period (10-12)
- Peer group increasingly influences behavior
- Physical, cognitive, social development increases
- Communication
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ADOLESCENCE (12 - 20 YRS)
- Physical growth accelerates
- Values tested
- Stress increases
- Self-concept changes with biologic development
YOUNG ADULTHOOD (20 - 40 YRS)
- A personal lifestyle develops
- Establishes a relationship with a significant other and a commitment to something
MIDDLE ADULTHOOD (40 - 65 YRS)
- Lifestyle changes due to other changes
- EG: children leave home, occupational goals change
OLDER ADULTHOOD (65 - 74 YRS)
- Adaptation to retirement and changing physical abilities often necessary
- Chronic illness may develop
OLD (75 - 84 YEARS)
- Adaptation to decline in speed of movement and reaction time
- Increasing dependence on others may be necessary
OLD-OLD (85+)
- Increasing physical problems may develop
AGING
Aging population
Major user of the health care services
PHYSIOLOGICAL CHANGES WITH AGE (nursing implications of these)
INTEGUMENT
- Thinner / frailer
NEUROMUSCULAR
- Gradual reduction in speed and power of skeletal muscles
- Reaction time
- Overall stature
SENSORY/PERCEPTUAL
- Five senses
- Vision, hearing, smell, taste, touch
GASTROINTESTINAL
- Periodontal
- Reduced saliva
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Document Summary
Increase in complexity of function and skill progression. Capacity and skill of a person to adapt to the environment. New experiences and social role tried during play. Establishes a relationship with a significant other and a commitment to something. Adaptation to retirement and changing physical abilities often necessary. Adaptation to decline in speed of movement and reaction time. Physiological changes with age (nursing implications of these) Gradual reduction in speed and power of skeletal muscles. Decreased oesophageal motility, stomach motility, intestinal absorption. Psychosocial changes with age (nursing implications of these) Cognitive changes with age (nursing implications of these) Chronic disabling illnesses: arthritis, osteoporosis, stroke, hearing and visual alterations, heart disease. A concept identifying a system of rules, beliefs, attitudes, values and behaviours, shared by a group taught across generations, ultimately learnt by those born into the group. Belonging to a certain race or group of people, usually determined biologically.
