Abdellah Bingo! Faye Glenn Abdellah’s 21 Nursing Problems - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.

1. Understand the role of social problems as influencing factors in illness
2. Promote development of productive interpersonal relationships
3. Maintain good hygiene and physical comfort
4. Use community resources as an aid in resolving problems
5. Promote optimal activity and exercise
6. Use community resources as an aid in resolving problems
7. Facilitate maintenance of fluid and electrolyte balance
8. Maintain sensory function
9. Promote awareness of self as an individual with varying physical, emotional, and developmental needs
10. Identify and accept interrelatedness of emotions and illness
11. Identify and accept positive and negative expressions, feelings, and reactions
12. Apply problem-solving techniques in nursing care
13. Facilitate progress toward achieving spiritual goals
14. Facilitate maintenance of effective verbal and nonverbal communication
15. Create and maintain a therapeutic environment
16. Facilitate maintenance of adequate nutrition
17. Accept the optimum possible goals in light of limitations
18. Facilitate maintenance of adequate elimination
19. Promote safety and prevent injury
20. Recognize physiological responses to disease conditions
21. Maintain good body mechanics and prevent deformities
22. Maintain good hygiene and physical comfort
23. Facilitate maintenance of effective verbal and nonverbal communication
24. Facilitate maintenance of fluid and electrolyte balance
25. Maintain regulatory mechanisms and functions