Nurse Vocabulary

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Welcome to Joel Mitchells English Class for
Nurses
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What is this nurse going to do?
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It is a syringe.
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Syringes are used in conjunction with hypodermic
needles to inject liquid medications into body
tissues the process of giving medication into
the body with a syringe and needle is called an
injection.
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When will a person use crutches?
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What is so funny and why are you laughing?
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What is a scale used for?
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What is this and how does it work?
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What is this and how does it work?
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What is this and how does it work?
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What is this nurse looking at?
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What is this nurse holding?
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It is a stethoscope.
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• A stethoscope is a medical instrument for
  listening to the action of someones heart or
  breathing, having a small disc-shaped resonator
  that is placed against the chest and two tubes
  connected to earpieces.

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What does the nurse use to check a persons
temperature?
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• Medical thermometers
• The traditional method of measuring human body
  temperature of the body normally 98.6 F or 37 C
  in humans was with a Mercury-in-glass
  thermometer, whose tip was inserted either into
  the mouth, under the armpit or into the rectum
  via the anus.

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Tobacco and Smoking

• Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of
  preventable death in the U.S. Along with other
  forms of tobacco, it kills more than 400,000
  Americans each year. It contributes to many cases
  of cancer, mainly of the lungs and other organs,
  as well as cardiovascular disease. Although
  smoking poses major health risks, that doesn't
  seem to stop enough people.

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Poor Nutrition

• More than 60 of the U.S. population, 20 years
  old and older, are obese. Deaths due to poor
  nutrition and lack of exercise are increasing.
  Every year about 400,000 people die from one or
  both. It is difficult to separate the two
  categories because they usually both result in
  obesity. That doesn't mean you can eat what you
  want and simply exercise more, or vice versa. For
  proper health, you must have a balance of each.

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Lack of Exercise

• 2004, only about 30 of Americans took part in
  some form of regular leisure-time physical
  activity. Getting plenty of exercise will improve
  heart conditions, give you more energy and help
  you sleep well at night. It correlates directly
  with obesity problems, and each year the
  combination of lack of exercise and poor
  nutrition kill about 400,000 people a year, with
  the numbers rapidly increasing.

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Drinking Alcohol

• Almost 100,000 deaths were caused by misuse of
  alcohol in 2004. Abusing the booze can give you
  liver cirrhosis or cancer. If that isn't enough
  to kill you, it also increases your chances of
  fatal accidents--for instance, in a car or
  drowning. Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis
  killed almost 30,000 Americans, while there were
  about 20,000 alcohol-induced deaths that don't
  include accidents or homicides.

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Toxic Agents

• We can't help but be exposed to toxins, whether
  it's at the job, in the environment or in the
  food we eat and drink. But they account for about
  60,000 deaths among Americans each year. They can
  include exposure to dyes, mineral dust, and air
  pollutants that contribute to problems like
  allergies and asthma.

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Sexual Behavior

• you aren't using protection during sex, you're
  increasing your risk of death. Each year about
  20,000 people die in the U.S. from preventable
  sexual diseases, and millions more are infected
  with a sexually transmitted disease. The two
  leading STDs are HIV, with an estimated number of
  14,000 deaths in 2002, and hepatitis, with about
  5,800 deaths that year.

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Tanning

• According to the American Cancer Society, almost
  8,000 people will die from melanoma, the deadly
  skin cancer associated with tanning. Tanning
  wasn't on the CDC's list of top actual causes of
  death, but we included it because of rising cases
  of melanoma. There aren't studies that prove
  tanning is the result of the increase in deaths,
  but we do know there is a correlation.

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Riding a Bicycle is Healthy
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Healthy Sports
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Healthy Sports
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Sports are Fun!
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Healthy Living or Unhealthy Living?
The choice is yours!
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Thank You For Coming to Class. See You
Soon!