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Nursing Fundamentals Theory
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health-sciences
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. - Peel fruits & vegetables - Eat dry foods & foods that are piping hot & cooked thoroughly - avoid tap water - ice cubes - fruit juice - fresh salads - unpasteurized dairy products - cold sauces & toppings - open buffets - & undercooked or reheate
2. Composed of white blood cells - liquefied dead tissue debris - & dead & live bacteria
Situational loss
Overflow Incontinence
Purulent wound drainage
Catheter Urine Specimen procedure
3. Personal emotional involvement - Need to explore own beliefs about death - Burn - out from work in areas of frequent death - Critical Care - ER - Hospice - Long Term Care
Physical loss
Nursing role with grief and death
How to stimulate a patients appetite
Total (reflex) Incontinence
4. Most significant & most commonly observed infection - causing agents in healthcare institutions
Patient Teaching necessary to prevent potential post - operative complications.
Risk Factors for Altered Family Health
Terminal weaning from ventilator
Bacteria
5. Inability to empty bladder
Susceptible Host
Factors that affect a patients health state
Retention - Altered urine pattern
Pallative Care
6. Urinary retention - inability to empty bladder
Sanguineous wound drainage
Stoma Care Assessments
Deception
urinary retention
7. Increase venus return and helps prevent complications of thrombophlebitis & resultant emboli
Factors that affect a patient's health state.
Characteristics of a colostomy
Post - operative complications Leg exercises
Ways to prevent food poisoning
8. Kills organisms but not spores & is bacteriocidal - Betadine - alcohol - chlorine - Depends On what organisms & How many are present - Type of item being disinfected - Time & strength of disinfecting agent is critical
Peristomal Bag or Applicance changes
Where dietary intake of cholesterol can be found
What disinfectant does
Patient teaching regarding post operative pain management.
9. Patients who require in - hospital care are more acutely ill or injured than in the past - Length of stay has decreased; Often leads to re - admissions - Nurses in hospitals must have knowledge & skills to perform complex care to very ill patients
What is length of stay & How do we control it?
Patient teaching necessary for post - operative pain control - Management of acute surgical pain.
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Love and belonging
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern
10. Assess for: - illness - fever - fatigue - N/V - medications - can alter taste or decrease appetite (chemo - steroids) - poor fitting dentures - no teeth - bad teeth - mouth problems - lesions - inflamed mucosa - pain - dislike of certain foods - unfa
Reasons a patient not have an appetite.
ostomy
Terminal weaning from ventilator
Patient teaching regarding post operative pain management.
11. Specific signs & symptom
chronic illness
Risk Factors for Altered Family Health
Reconstructive surgery
Full stage of illness
12. Total Parenteral Nutrition - nutritional therapy that bypasses the GI tract for patients who are unable to take food orally; meets patient's nutritional needs by way of nutrient - filled solutions administered intravenously through a central vein
Timed specimen collections (24- hour specimen)
TPN
Comfort Measures Only
Factors affecting a vegan diet
13. Anatomical position - Removal of soiled dressings & tubes - Who will bathe the body? - Identification tags - Personal items - Order to release body / mortuary notification - Special handling for communicable disease
Post - operative complications Coughing
Signs of patient nearing death
Postmortem Care
Characteristics of a colostomy
14. Health history & physical assessment within 24 hrs of surgery to identify risk factors & allergies - Identifying medications & treatments patient is currently receiving - surgery cancels all prior medication orders (Ex: no cumadin - Plavix - aspirin
Pre - operative assessment includes
Susceptibility
Liver disease effects on nutritional status of a patient
Benefits of exercise as it relates to a patient's ability to heal - rest - etc.
15. Retards growth of organisms & is bacteriostatic
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Patient teaching regarding post operative pain management.
Purulent wound drainage
What antiseptic does
16. Difficulty or painful urination
Fungi
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern
Hospice Care
Test used for determng blood in stool
17. Medications - narcotics - iron preparations - chronic use of stimulant laxatives - antibiotics - Constipation or diarrhea is common side effect of meds Treat Constipation: - increasing fiber - fluids - activity - allowing time daily - may use bulk
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Risk Factors for Altered Family Health
Social Justice
Surgical Classification - emergent
18. Health - state of complete physical - mental - & social well being - not merely the absence of disease - Wellness - active state - oriented toward maximizing the potential of the individual
19. Two - piece bag may be used - face plate attaches to skin around stoma - bag attaches to face plate - easy to remove & empty bag without disturbing seal on skin - bag is changed only when it leaks or seal is lost - opening in karaya should be cut 1/8
Cognitive learning
What elevates HDL
Stoma Bag/Appliance changes
Ethical distress
20. Demonstration - discovery - audiovisual materials - printed materials
Catheter Urine Specimen procedure
Psychological loss
solube fiber
Psychomotor teaching strategy
21. Pain reported by patient is determining factor of pain control - Assess pain q 2 hrs after major surgery - Older patient is at risk for undertreatment & overtreatment of pain
Terminal Illness
Patient teaching necessary for post - operative pain control - Management of acute surgical pain.
Post - operative complications Incentive Spirometry
Psychomotor teaching strategy
22. Leakage when coughing - sneezing - or increased intra - abdominal pressure
Nursing role with grief and death
Reasons a patient not have an appetite.
Stress Incontinence
During Peristomal Bag or Applaince change - opening in karaya
23. Equal care & rights for all
Social Justice
Total (reflex) Incontinence
Justice
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Love and belonging
24. Permanent change - cause is irreversible alterations in normal anatomy & physiology - require long period of care
Pre - operative assessment includes
Most effective way to prevent spread of organisms
chronic illness
Portal of Entry
25. Altered self - image
Bacteria
Psychological loss
Diagnostic surgery
During Peristomal Bag or Applaince change - opening in karaya
26. Personal habits - Defecate at the same time each day - Privacy & time allotment - Positioning - sitting upright with feet on ground
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Psychomotor teaching strategy
Terminal Illness
ostomy
27. Gradual withdrawal of mechanical ventilation from a patient with a terminal illness or an irreversible condition with a poor prognosis.
Living Wills
Ethical dilemma
Terminal weaning from ventilator
Bacteria
28. Death expected within a limited period of time - What patient needs to know - how disease will progress; go through stages of grief; support in decision making; right to consent to or refuse any & all treatment - What family needs to know - how disea
What disinfectant does
Terminal Illness
Post - operative complications Coughing
Factors that affect a patient's health state.
29. Changes in attitude - values - feelings (emotional)
Hospice Care
Benefits of exercise as it relates to a patient's ability to heal - rest - etc.
Portal of Exit
Affective learning
30. Dishonesty to alleviate patient anxiety or concern
Deception
solube fiber
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Love and belonging
What happens during the pre - op phase of surgery
31. Allow individual to state in advance What their choices would be should certain circumstances develop
TPN
Advance Directives
Effects of cholesterol on patients nutritional status
Factors affecting a vegan diet
32. Inability to get to toilet in time or inability to recognize need to urinate
Functional Incontinence
Affective teaching strategy
Physical loss
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern
33. Activity - movement stimulates intestinal muscle action = peristalsis - abdominal & pelvic muscle exercises to maintain tone for intra - abdominal pressure
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Pallative Care
Clean Catch Specimen Collection
Autonomy
34. Social support systems - Community healthcare structure - Economic resources - Environmental factors - Nursing in the community
TPN
Reconstructive surgery
Purulent wound drainage
Community Factors Affecting Health
35. Must be done within a reasonably short time frame to preserve health - but is not an emergency.
Portal of Entry
What elevates HDL
Surgical classifications: Urgent
Challenges to health care access
36. Obtaining complete proteins - soy products
Factors affecting a vegan diet
Maturational loss
Reservoir
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern
37. Delay or problem starting urinary stream
Stoma Bag/Appliance changes
Hesitancy - Altered urine pattern
Palliative surgery
Psychomotor learning
38. Disposable one - piece bags may be used at first - will have karaya or stomahesive attached - After stoma is stable - two - piece bag may be used - face plate attaches to skin around stoma - bag attaches to face plate - easy to remove & empty bag w
Fungi
Peristomal Bag or Applicance changes
Peristomal Skin Care Cleansing
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
39. Mixture of serum & red blood cells
How vitamins can affect a patients nutritional state
Serosanguineous wound drainage
Risk Factors for Altered Family Health
Causes of food poisoning
40. provided for people with limited life expectancy - often in the home - focuses on the needs of the dying - comfort & dignity; encompasses biomedical - psychosocial - & spiritual aspects
Fidelity
Hospice Care
Frequency - Altered urine pattern
Advocacy
41. Incontinence in child after toilet control expected
Liver disease effects on nutritional status of a patient
Altruism
Enuresis
splinting and its use in the health care setting
42. Stool production will usually not begin for a few days after surgery - surgery inhibits peristalsis - patient has been NPO - enemas to cleanse prior - Mucus may be passed from stoma prior to production of stool - Colostomy may require irrigation
Nursing considerations for peristomal care.
Peristomal Bag or Applicance changes
Nocturia - Altered urine pattern
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative bowel elimination needs.
43. North American Nursing Diagnosis Association is a way to define what nurses can diagnose in the nursing realm & a way to find interventions & outcomes. Nursing Diagnosis must be a NAndA approved diagnosis - NIC - Nursing Interventions Classification
How to review - assess and develop a nursing diagnosis based on patients clinical presentation.
Abdominal physical assessment
Test used for determng blood in stool
splinting and its use in the health care setting
44. To remove a diseased body part (Ex: appendectomy - amputation)
ostomy
Ablative surgery
What happens during the pre - op phase of surgery
Convalescent period
45. ability to break down nitrogen to excrete
Liver disease effects on nutritional status of a patient
Symptoms of UTI
Factors that affect a patient's health state.
Terminal Illness
46. Provide specific instructions about kinds of healthcare that should be provide or forgone
Reservoir
Living Wills
Anticipatory loss
Peristomal Skin Care Assessments
47. Helps remove mucus & is usually taught with deep breathing (esp. important for patients with increased risk of respiratory complications)
Anticipatory loss
Factors affecting a vegan diet
Post - operative complications Coughing
Integrity
48. Right of self - determination; informed choices for patients - right to choose
Patient teaching necessary for post - operative pain control - Management of acute surgical pain.
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
Community Factors Affecting Health
Autonomy
49. Wash gently with gauze or clean cloth & water - Pat dry
Stoma Care Cleansing
Characteristics of a colostomy
Cognitive learning
Liver disease effects on nutritional status of a patient
50. Early signs & symptoms are present but are often vague & nonspecific; patient does not realize he is contagious
Serous wound drainage
Prodromal stage (most infectious stage)
Nocturia - Altered urine pattern
How to stimulate a patients appetite