support system enhancement


enhancement

 [en-hans´ment] the process of making something greater; see also promotion" >promotion.body image enhancement in the nursing interventions classification, a intervention" >nursing intervention defined as improving a patient's body image (conscious and unconscious perceptions and attitudes toward his/her body).communication enhancement: hearing deficit in the nursing interventions classification, a intervention" >nursing intervention defined as assistance in accepting and learning alternate methods for living with diminished hearing" >hearing.communication enhancement: speech deficit in the nursing interventions classification, a intervention" >nursing intervention defined as assistance in accepting and learning alternate methods for living with impaired speech" >speech.communication enhancement: visual deficit in the nursing interventions classification, a intervention" >nursing intervention defined as assistance in accepting and learning alternate methods for living with diminished vision" >vision.coping enhancement in the nursing interventions classification, a intervention" >nursing intervention defined as assisting a patient in coping" >coping with perceived stressors" >stressors, changes, or threats that interfere with meeting life demands and roles.cough enhancement in the nursing interventions classification, a intervention" >nursing intervention defined as promotion of patient coughing" >coughing by deep inhalation with subsequent generation of high intrathoracic pressures and compression of underlying lung parenchyma for the forceful expulsion of air.developmental enhancement: adolescent in the nursing interventions classification, a intervention" >nursing intervention defined as facilitating optimal physical, cognitive, social, and emotional growth of individuals during the transition from childhood to adulthood.developmental enhancement: child in the nursing interventions classification, a intervention" >nursing intervention defined as facilitating or teaching parents/caregivers to facilitate the optimal gross motor, fine motor, language, cognitive, social, and emotional growth of preschool and school-aged children.edge enhancement a sharp increase in contrast on a xeroradiograph where there is an abrupt difference in the tissue densities of adjacent structures.learning readiness enhancement in the nursing interventions classification, a intervention" >nursing intervention defined as improving the ability and willingness to receive information.religious ritual enhancement in the nursing interventions classification, a intervention" >nursing intervention defined as facilitating participation in religious practices.role enhancement in the nursing interventions classification, a intervention" >nursing intervention defined as assisting a patient, significant other, or family to improve relationships by clarifying and supplementing specific role behaviors.security enhancement in the nursing interventions classification, a intervention" >nursing intervention defined as intensifying a patient's sense of physical and psychological safety.self-awareness enhancement in the nursing interventions classification, a intervention" >nursing intervention defined as assisting a patient to explore and understand his/her thoughts, feelings, motivations, and behaviors.self-esteem enhancement in the nursing interventions classification, a intervention" >nursing intervention defined as assisting a patient to increase his or her personal judgment of self-worth.sleep enhancement in the nursing interventions classification, a intervention" >nursing intervention defined as facilitation of regular sleep/wake cycles.socialization enhancement in the nursing interventions classification, a intervention" >nursing intervention defined as facilitation of another person's ability to interact with others.support system enhancement in the nursing interventions classification, a intervention" >nursing intervention defined as the facilitation of a system" >support system for the patient by family, friends, and/or community.