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Nursing Fundamentals Theory
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Legal document that protects patient - physician - & healthcare institution - Person who is performing procedure (physician) is responsible for securing consent & explaining procedure to patient - Nurse signs as a witness - signifying that patient si
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2. 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
Post - operative complications Turning in bed
Stoma Care Assessments
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Serous wound drainage
3. Respect for inherent worth & uniqueness of the individual; patient privacy & confidentiality
Psychomotor teaching strategy
Human dignity
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Factors that affect a patients health state
4. Give each his/her due & act fairly
Psychomotor teaching strategy
Characteristics of a colostomy
Human Dimensions of Health
Justice
5. Inability to delay need to urinate
Virus
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare
How does renal disease affect a patients nutrional health
Urge Incontinence
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
Factors that affect a patients health state
Risk Factors for AlteresFmily health.
How a nurse supports grieving patient's family
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative urinary elimination needs.
7. Lecture or discussion - panel discussion - discovery - audiovisual materials - printed materials - programmed instruction - computer - assisted instruction programs
Clean Catch Specimen Collection
Cognitive teaching strategy
Full stage of illness
Altruism
8. Allow individual to state in advance What their choices would be should certain circumstances develop
Affective learning
Atherosclerosis effects on nutritional status of patient
Challenges to health care access
Advance Directives
9. 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
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
Post - operative complications Often painful
10. Recognized by others as well as patient (Ex: loss of job - spouse)
How does renal disease affect a patients nutrional health
splinting and its use in the health care setting
Actual loss
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
11. 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
Paternalism
pre - operative assessments & screenings
How to review - assess and develop a nursing diagnosis based on patients clinical presentation.
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare
12. 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
Reconstructive surgery
Pre - operative assessment includes
Stoma Care Cleansing
Living Wills
13. 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
Stages of Kubler - Ross's psychosocial responses to grief & loss
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self - Actualization
Stoma Bag/Appliance changes
Ways to help a patient manage pain
14. Point where an organism enters a new host; GI - GU - Respiratory - break in skin or mucous membranes
Peristomal Skin Care Cleansing
Patient Teaching necessary to prevent potential post - operative complications.
Portal of Entry
Questions to ask during an abdominal health history
15. Integration of mental & muscular activity (physical)
Nurses role with 'informed consent'
Advance Directives
Dying patient's Bill of Rights
Psychomotor learning
16. Cultural - views on healthcare - Environmental - access to healthcare - Socioeconomic - financial resources - insurance - Physical - mobility
Factors affecting grief and dying
Autonomy
Questions to ask during an abdominal health history
Challenges to health care access
17. Inability to swallow - Pitting edema - Decreased GI & GU activity - Incontinence - Loss of motion - sensation - reflexes - Elevated temp but cold - clammy skin - Cyanosis - Lowered BP - Noisy - irregular respirations - Cheyne - Stokes - May
Terminal weaning from ventilator
Signs of patient nearing death
How one provides continuity of care
Incubation period
18. 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
Hospice Care
Atherosclerosis effects on nutritional status of patient
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Challenges to health care access
19. Provide specific instructions about kinds of healthcare that should be provide or forgone
pre - operative assessments & screenings
Reconstructive surgery
cleasing enema
Living Wills
20. Need to void without ability to hold or delay
urinary retention
Factors that affect a patient's health state.
Urgency - Altered urine pattern
Abdominal physical assessment
21. Composed of clear - serous portion of the blood & from serous membranes
Serous wound drainage
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
Human dignity
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs & Meeting Basic Human Needs and how it's used to treat patients.
22. So patient should be taught to splint the incision (support with pillow or folded bath blanket) & cough during period after pain medication has been administered
Post - operative complications Often painful
Most effective way to prevent spread of organisms
Benefits of exercise as it relates to a patient's ability to heal - rest - etc.
Post - operative complications Coughing
23. Retention with leakage that exceeds bladder capacity
Overflow Incontinence
Incubation period
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
urinary retention
24. Plantlike organisms - molds (Ex: Athlete's foot - Ringworm)
Pallative Care
What antiseptic does
Fungi
Affective teaching strategy
25. Improves venus return - respiratory function - & peristalsis - relieves skin pressure. Patient should practice before surgery
How a nurse can meet the physical needs of a dying patient
Catheter Urine Specimen procedure
Post - operative complications Turning in bed
Community Factors Affecting Health
26. 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
Justice
Palliative surgery
Postmortem Care
Peristomal Skin Care Cleansing
27. Risk factors for illness - Factors in the human dimensions that influence health - illness status - Beliefs and practice - Basic human needs - Self - concept
Prodromal stage (most infectious stage)
Factors Affecting Health Status - Beliefs - & Practices
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs & Meeting Basic Human Needs and how it's used to treat patients.
Living Wills
28. 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 to
Maturational loss
Pallative Care
Nursing Consideratins for stoma care
Fecal Occult Blood Test
29. Result of unpredictable event (Ex: injury - disaster)
Situational loss
Challenges to health care access
Social Justice
Perceived loss
30. Loss of voluntary control of urination
TPN
Incontinence
Palliative surgery
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern
31. Process of emptying the bladder
micturition - urination - or voiding
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
Situational loss
splinting and its use in the health care setting
32. 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
Patient teaching necessary for post - operative pain control - Management of acute surgical pain.
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Factors affecting a vegan diet
Community Factors Affecting Health
33. Physical - genetic inheritance - age - developmental level - race - & gender - Emotional - how the mind affects body function & responds to body conditions - Intellectual - cognitive abilities - educational background - & past experiences - Environme
Dying patient's Bill of Rights
Full stage of illness
Human Dimensions of Health
Surgical classifications: Urgent
34. Deep breathing (TCDB - Turn - Cough - Deep Breathing) - During surgery - cough reflex is suppresses - mucus accumulates - & lungs do not ventilate fully. After surgery - respirations are less effective due to anesthesia - pain meds - & pain - hyperv
Community Factors Affecting Health
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
Patient Teaching necessary to prevent potential post - operative complications.
Ethical distress
35. Interval between pathogen's invasion of the body & the appearance of symptoms; organisms are growing & multiplying
Surgicale Classification - elective
Diagnostic surgery
Incubation period
Beneficence
36. Ensure that food is safe for consumption & prepared & stored properly - Never purchase food with damaged packaging - Take items that require refrigeration home immediately - Never use raw eggs in any form - Cook ground meat thoroughly; should not hav
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Cognitive teaching strategy
Ways to prevent food poisoning
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Safety and Security
37. Frequency & amount of stools - history of diarrhea - constipation - impaction - Any abnormality of stool appearance - Use of laxatives or enemas - Dietary habits - food allergies - fluids - fiber - Amount of activity & exercise - Medications - Stress
Questions to ask during an abdominal health history
Post - operative complications Often painful
Human dignity
DNR and the nurse's duty
38. Do - not - resuscitate - an order specifying that there be no attempt to resuscitate a patient in the event of cardiopulmonary arrest - Nurse is obligated to attempt CPR if there is no DNR order - Nurse should clarify the patient's code status: if th
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39. 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
Patient teaching necessary for post - operative pain control - Management of acute surgical pain.
solube fiber
How vitamins can affect a patients nutritional state
Causes of food poisoning
40. Works to stimulate peristalsis by distending & irritating bowel - Used to remove stool and/or flatus - relieve constipation or fecal impaction - prevent escape of fecal material during surgical procedures - promote visualization of GI tract by radiog
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Bacteria
cleasing enema
Cognitive learning
41. Dishonesty to alleviate patient anxiety or concern
Deception
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
How a nurse supports grieving patient's family
micturition - urination - or voiding
42. Loss that is yet to come
Anticipatory loss
Terminal weaning from ventilator
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
Living Wills
43. Containing or mixed with blood
Post - operative complications Coughing
Slow Code
Sanguineous wound drainage
Nursing Ethics
44. Difficulty or painful urination
What is adpie & why do we use it
Nursing Ethics
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern
Cognitive teaching strategy
45. Goal of treatment is a comfortable dignified death & that further life - sustaining measures are no longer indicated.
Nursing Consideratins for stoma care
Causes of food poisoning
Stages of Kubler - Ross's psychosocial responses to grief & loss
Comfort Measures Only
46. Sense of hopefulness - participation in decisions - expression of feelings & emotions - Not die alone - religious or spiritual needs - honesty
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47. Social support systems - Community healthcare structure - Economic resources - Environmental factors - Nursing in the community
Community Factors Affecting Health
What elevates HDL
Stages of Kubler - Ross's psychosocial responses to grief & loss
Postmortem Care
48. A natural habitat of an organism (Ex: other humans - animals - soil - inanimate objects - water - milk - food)
cleasing enema
Reservoir
Hospice Care
Total (reflex) Incontinence
49. Permanent change - cause is irreversible alterations in normal anatomy & physiology - require long period of care
Justice
chronic illness
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs & Meeting Basic Human Needs and how it's used to treat patients.
Surgical asepsis
50. 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
Test used for determng blood in stool
Full stage of illness
Autonomy
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Safety and Security