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Nursing Fundamentals Theory
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Avoid causing harm (Nightengale Pledge
Smoking destroys What type of fat
Signs of patient nearing death
Stoma Care Cleansing
Nonmaleficence
2. - 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
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3. Absence of basic human needs results in illness - Presence of basic human needs helps prevent illness or signals health - Meeting basic human needs restores health - One feels something missing when needs are unmet - One feels satisfaction when need
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4. Uses reagent substances to detect the enzyme peroxidase in the hemoglobin molecule
Psychomotor learning
Fecal Occult Blood Test
Incubation period
Factors affecting grief and dying
5. Binds fat & cholesterol to decrease absorption into bloodstream from GI tract
Community Factors Affecting Health
solube fiber
Components of a clear liquid diet
Perceived loss
6. I & O - monitor for fluid volume deficit or overload - Bladder distention - assess by palpating above pubic symphysis if patient has not voided within 8 hrs after surgery or if patient has been voiding frequently in amounts less than 50 mL
ANA code for nurses - ethical & professional standards for a nurse to follow.
Current changes in the healthcare delivery system (chronic diseases - aging population - etc.)
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative urinary elimination needs.
Neurogenic - Altered urine pattern
7. Delay or problem starting urinary stream
Hesitancy - Altered urine pattern
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern
Paternalism
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
8. 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
Urgency - Altered urine pattern
Patient teaching necessary for post - operative pain control - Management of acute surgical pain.
ostomy
Retention - Altered urine pattern
9. Build - up of fat - cholesterol & calcium on inside of artery walls - Leads to hardening of walls with loss of elasticity or ability to expand fully - Plaque build up roughens walls so clotting factors can stick to walls - Plaque narrows lumen of art
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare
Atherosclerosis effects on nutritional status of patient
Factors affecting grief and dying
Ways to help a patient manage pain
10. Hematest & guaiac test are chemical tests commonly used - False - positive results - from ingesting red meat - animal liver & kidneys - salmon - tuna - mackerel & sardines - tomatoes - cauliflower - horseradish - turnips - melon - bananas - & soybean
Ethical distress
Test used for determng blood in stool
Terminal weaning from ventilator
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
11. Voiding too often but normal total amounts
Frequency - Altered urine pattern
Factors Affecting Health Status - Beliefs - & Practices
Reservoir
Psychological loss
12. Developmental considerations - child has limited understanding but needs to grieve - Family - Who has died - Socioeconomics - financial burden or loss; Cause of Death - Culture - Gender - Religion
How to prevent 'travelers diarrhea'
Physical loss
Post - operative complications Turning in bed
Factors affecting grief and dying
13. Permanent change - cause is irreversible alterations in normal anatomy & physiology - require long period of care
Ethical dilemma
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
chronic illness
Risk Factors for AlteresFmily health.
14. Can be harmful if taken in large amounts - All nutrients work with others to promote good health - Adding large amounts of one vitamin can make the body believe it is deficient in another vitamin - Food is the best source of nutrients - Supplements s
Portal of Exit
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Love and belonging
How vitamins can affect a patients nutritional state
Psychomotor teaching strategy
15. Regular exercise
What elevates HDL
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative bowel elimination needs.
Convalescent period
Signs of patient nearing death
16. Concern for the welfare of others; patient advocacy; respect for other cultures - perspectives
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
Altruism
Nursing Ethics
Neurogenic - Altered urine pattern
17. Obtaining complete proteins - soy products
ANA code for nurses - ethical & professional standards for a nurse to follow.
Components of a clear liquid diet
Pre - operative assessment includes
Factors affecting a vegan diet
18. Social support systems - Community healthcare structure - Economic resources - Environmental factors - Nursing in the community
Community Factors Affecting Health
Nursing Consideratins for stoma care
Post - operative complications Often painful
Peristomal Skin Care Assessments
19. Diet - should include adequate fiber or bulk - Whole grains - fruits - vegetables - legumes - Eating at regular intervals helps stimulate peristalsis (gastrocolic reflex) - Food allergies or food poisoning may lead to diarrhea - Some foods cause
Psychological loss
ANA code for nurses - ethical & professional standards for a nurse to follow.
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self Esteem
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
20. Improves musculoskeletal system - Improves cardiovascular function - Improves circulation - tissues get oxygen & nutrients - Promotes relaxation
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21. Understanding & Acceptance: Involve family / friends in patient care - Establish trusting relationship - Refer to support groups
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22. identify factors that may place the patient at greater risk for complications during & after surgery - often conducted several days before surgery as part of pre - operative laboratory screening & teaching
Palliative surgery
Factors affecting grief and dying
Psychomotor teaching strategy
pre - operative assessments & screenings
23. Retention with leakage that exceeds bladder capacity
Social Justice
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare
Liver disease effects on nutritional status of a patient
Overflow Incontinence
24. Inability to empty bladder
Retention - Altered urine pattern
Stoma Bag/Appliance changes
Convalescent period
Social Justice
25. Helps remove mucus & is usually taught with deep breathing (esp. important for patients with increased risk of respiratory complications)
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
cleasing enema
Post - operative complications Coughing
Factors that affect a patients health state
26. To restore function to traumatized or malfunctioning tissue (Ex: plastic surgery - breast reconstruction - skin graft)
Situational loss
Human Dimensions of Health
Reconstructive surgery
Autonomy
27. ability to excrete excess nitrogen
Benefits of exercise as it relates to a patient's ability to heal - rest - etc.
Catheter Urine Specimen procedure
Bacteria
How does renal disease affect a patients nutrional health
28. Respect values & beliefs - Role change - Body image change - Encourage to set attainable goals - Facilitate support from family / friends
Palliative surgery
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self Esteem
What is adpie & why do we use it
Effects of cholesterol on patients nutritional status
29. Composed of white blood cells - liquefied dead tissue debris - & dead & live bacteria
Factors affecting a vegan diet
Purulent wound drainage
Terminal weaning from ventilator
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
30. Should be moist & red or pink if circulation is adequate - Pale or bluish indicates problem - bleeds easily (mucosa) but amount is minimal - Very edematous at first - but will shrink down to normal size as healing occurs (6-8 weeks) - Protrude above
What is length of stay & How do we control it?
Stoma Care Assessments
Social Justice
Post - operative complications Turning in bed
31. Act for patient without their consent; Overrides patient autonomy; Nurse decides What is in best interest of patient
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative bowel elimination needs.
Hospice Care
Abdominal physical assessment
Paternalism
32. Lab / Screenings - Chest x- ray - is there fluid or anything pressing on the heart? - ECG - heart health - circulatory - ischemia - CBC - WBC's - infection - RBC's - platelets - bleeding time - Chemistry profile - Urinalysis
Stoma Bag/Appliance changes
What happens during the pre - op phase of surgery
What disinfectant does
Deception
33. To make or confirm a diagnosis (Ex: breast biopsy - laparoscopy)
Diagnostic surgery
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative bowel elimination needs.
Comfort Measures Only
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare
34. 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
Total (reflex) Incontinence
Pallative Care
TPN
Clean Catch Specimen Collection
35. Dishonesty to alleviate patient anxiety or concern
Cognitive learning
Deception
Stoma Care Assessments
Advance Directives
36. In the case of cardiopulmonary or respiratory arrest - calling a code & resuscitating the patient are to be delayed until these measures will be ineffectual.
Ethical distress
Symptoms of UTI
Slow Code
Ileostomy -
37. Goal of treatment is a comfortable dignified death & that further life - sustaining measures are no longer indicated.
Comfort Measures Only
Post - operative complications Leg exercises
Abdominal physical assessment
Prodromal stage (most infectious stage)
38. Result of natural development
Surgical classifications: Urgent
Stoma Bag/Appliance changes
Total (reflex) Incontinence
Maturational loss
39. 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
Retention - Altered urine pattern
Hospice Care
solube fiber
urinary retention
40. Collect from specimen port on drainage tubing - Cleanse with alcohol & use sterile syringe to pull out urine - Collect urine only from upper tubing - never from drainage bag - Urinalysis - collect 30 mL; Culture & Sensitivity (C&S) - collect 10 mL -
Patient teaching regarding post operative pain management.
Catheter Urine Specimen procedure
What is adpie & why do we use it
Surgicale Classification - elective
41. Teach patient & family that pain meds will be ordered by physician & administered by nurse - Patient should ask for pain meds before pain becomes severe - A different med can be ordered if the med does not control pain or has unpleasant side effects
Anticipatory loss
Patient teaching regarding post operative pain management.
Pallative Care
Social Justice
42. Code of ethics; accountability
Physical loss
Integrity
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Physiologic Needs - essential to life
Justice
43. Lifestyle - Psychosocial - Environmental - Developmental - Biologic risks
What is adpie & why do we use it
Cognitive teaching strategy
Risk Factors for AlteresFmily health.
Autonomy
44. Combination of Power of Attorney for Healthcare & Living Will
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern
Nurses role with 'informed consent'
Combination Directive
Affective learning
45. Primary commitment to the patient; Priority is good of individual patient rather than society in general;Evaluation of competing claims of patient's autonomy & patient well - being
Dying patient's Bill of Rights
Catheter Urine Specimen procedure
Patient teaching necessary for post - operative pain control - Management of acute surgical pain.
Advocacy
46. Salmonella bacillus from raw eggs or chicken - Bacterial enteropathogens - viruses - or parasites - cause Traveler's diarrhea - Undercooked meat
Causes of food poisoning
Nocturia - Altered urine pattern
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
Situational loss
47. Altered self - image
Psychological loss
Catheter Urine Specimen procedure
Advocacy
Justice
48. Hand Hygiene - Wash - before & after touching patient; before & after wearing gloves - Alchohol - based handrubs - if hands are not visibly soiled - Soap & water - if hands are visibly soiled or contaminated with blood or body fluids; wash for 15 sec
Current changes in the healthcare delivery system (chronic diseases - aging population - etc.)
Most effective way to prevent spread of organisms
Abdominal physical assessment
cleasing enema
49. 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
Human dignity
Overflow Incontinence
Nursing considerations for peristomal care.
urinary retention
50. Bowel sounds - auscultate every 4 hrs when patient is awake - reduced or absent; should return within 8-24 hrs after surgery - Distention - assess; esp. if bowel sounds are absent or high - pitched (could indicate paralytic ileus) - Is there an infe
What happens during the pre - op phase of surgery
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative bowel elimination needs.
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
Nursing Consideratins for stoma care