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Nursing Fundamentals 3

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1. At What age do you begin to use logical thought process?






2. A potential adverse rx of chemically restraining a confused patient would be






3. Another term for a focused assessment is






4. Nursing interventions should be based on who's theory?






5. Name the 5 'W's' of assessing a change in LOC






6. What is the formula for determining pack years?






7. An ongoing assessment is performed






8. What are Piaget's stages of cognitive development






9. When performing an ongoing assessment for a patient with disturbed thinking the nurse should be sure to include






10. What are the steps of the nursing process?






11. What is the difference between a nursing dx and a med dx?






12. A patient that is dying is on morphine. The family is concerned the prs breathing will stop. What is the correct RN response?

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13. Asking a patient what would you do if there is a fire in the wastebasket - is a way to assess their






14. Expiration sounds are heard longer than inspiration In What area?






15. What does CAM stand for






16. Subjective data could include






17. What would cause changes in congitive development later in life (middle adulthood)?






18. If an abnormal finding is revealed during assessment - the nurse should






19. Acceptable sources of assessment data when evaluating a confused patient would be






20. What do rhonchi sound like?






21. An example of a primary source is






22. Other factors that may indicate confusion using the CAM tool could be






23. A patient that is easily fatigued may have a HgB lab value of?






24. At What age do you begin to use decision making?






25. Diabetes is a _________ dx






26. At patient that state their shoes are tighter at the end of the day may be experiencing






27. One way to test a person's cognitive ability and abstract thinking ability would be to






28. Inspiration sounds are heard longer than expiration sounds In What area?






29. The path of blood from the heart to the lungs is






30. In Which part of the nursing process will you find delegation?






31. Ongoing assessments are useful in

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32. Keeping patient's belongings - shoes - suitcases and street clothes - etc. out of view are helpful for preventing: wandering?






33. What are the ABCDE's of pain management?






34. If patient reports pain of 3 on scale of 0-10 - What is the appropriate class of pain reliever?






35. Examples of personal information






36. Two indicators that are REQUIRED for classification via the CAM tool include






37. Types of hearing loss include






38. The fifth vital sign is






39. What is the difference between hallucination and delirium?






40. Nursing dx provides basis of






41. An example of a nursing dx would be






42. Data that is recorded for an immediate need (code blue or fall) would be included in






43. What is a component of the cognitive part of critical thinking skills?






44. What is the purpose of the nursing process?






45. When noticing a patient with dementia has stopped eating - the RN's first response is?






46. Hypogeusis is






47. A nursing dx is best described as






48. The basis for a plan of care comes for which stage of the nursing process?






49. What is the nursing process?






50. Intermittent claudication is caused by?