Health Promotion Essentials Match
EasyRace the clock — pair each term with its definition as fast as you can, then try to beat your best time. A quick, replayable warm-up for this set.
Shuffling the deck…
Terms in this set
- Immunization Vaccine administration; the LPN gives routine immunizations and checks the record against the recommended schedule.
- Screening Checking people without symptoms for early disease; the LPN performs many screenings and reports positive results.
- Prevention Primary, secondary and tertiary measures that stop illness or slow its progression, much of it delivered as routine LPN care.
- Wellness Actively working toward better health rather than merely being free of disease.
- Teaching Client education; the LPN reinforces and repeats teaching the RN has planned, then reports back what the client understood.
- Development Expected milestones by age, used by the LPN to judge whether a client’s behaviour is age-appropriate.
- Lifestyle Habits a client can change, such as diet, activity, tobacco and alcohol, that the LPN asks about and reinforces teaching on.
- Prenatal Pregnancy care visits, where the LPN collects weight, blood pressure and urine data and reports abnormal findings to the RN.