Why is it important to know anatomical terms of location and movement?
1 Answer
It is a way to learn the language.
Explanation:
You need to know what is going on around you and what others are saying.
Can you imagine going to a foreign country and asking a person
in the streets how to get to somewhere?
If you don't know the language of that country, you may end up looking a river instead of a mountain.
I am going to be a nurse, you say. But the doctor told me that a patient has idiopathic peripheral neuropathy in the right leg. And I am to give her an subdermal injection in that leg.
And you draw up the medication and you can't make out the name. Is this the correct drug, you say to yourself?
Well, maybe, and you give the injection deep into the gluteus maximus on the left side.
What is wrong with this?
the gluteus maximus is in the thigh. The leg is below the knee.
the injection should have not gone into the muscle but right under the skin.
the patient's right side is toward your left. So you gave it into the
wrong side.
As far as not knowing what you gave? Always double check and at least know a little about what they are.
And what the heck is idiopathic peripheral neuropathy?
Knowing medical terminology is a great tool. Idio- = unknown , -path- = disease. peripheral = outside or away from the middle . Neuro-= nerve , -pathy = disease.
