Nursing Fundamentals Theory

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• Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. 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.
Ethical distress
Effects of cholesterol on patients nutritional status
Serous wound drainage


2. Equal care & rights for all
Challenges to health care access
Urge Incontinence
During Peristomal Bag or Applaince change - opening in karaya
Social Justice


3. Personal habits - Defecate at the same time each day - Privacy & time allotment - Positioning - sitting upright with feet on ground
Surgical asepsis
Advocacy
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
Ways to prevent or treat constipation


4. A natural habitat of an organism (Ex: other humans - animals - soil - inanimate objects - water - milk - food)
Reservoir
Incontinence
What is adpie & why do we use it
Surgicale Classification - elective


5. Inability to get to toilet in time or inability to recognize need to urinate
Functional Incontinence
pre - operative assessments & screenings
What a nurse needs to do about the spiritual needs of a dying patient
Sanguineous wound drainage


6. Binds fat & cholesterol to decrease absorption into bloodstream from GI tract
Serous wound drainage
solube fiber
What is length of stay & How do we control it?
Affective teaching strategy


7. Avoid causing harm (Nightengale Pledge
Nonmaleficence
Affective teaching strategy
Social Justice
Benefits of exercise as it relates to a patient's ability to heal - rest - etc.


8. Dishonesty to alleviate patient anxiety or concern
Risk Factors for Altered Family Health
How vitamins can affect a patients nutritional state
Deception
Prodromal stage (most infectious stage)


9. Goal of treatment is a comfortable dignified death & that further life - sustaining measures are no longer indicated.
Definition of acute illness
Comfort Measures Only
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Safety and Security
Post - operative complications Coughing


10. 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 affecting grief and dying
Comfort Measures Only
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative urinary elimination needs.
Incubation period


11. Oxygen; skin color - V/S - mental responsiveness; Intake & elimination of fluids;I & O - skin turgor - weight - mucous membranes; Food;weight - muscle mass - labs; Temperature;Physical activity;Rest & sleep

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12. 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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13. Lifestyle - Psychosocial - Environmental - Developmental - Biologic risks
Risk Factors for Altered Family Health
Medical Asepsis - clean technique
Smoking destroys What type of fat
Susceptible Host


14. Role modeling - discussion - panel discussion - audiovisual materials - role playing - printed materials
Affective teaching strategy
Ways to prevent food poisoning
Terminal Illness
Abdominal physical assessment


15. Backrubs- Warm / cold compresses - Auditory / visual stimuli - TENS (transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation) - Acupuncture - Placebos - Analgesics - Endorphins - natural analgesic activated by stress & pain - Medications - IV - PO - PCA - Epidu
Cognitive teaching strategy
cleasing enema
Signs of patient nearing death
Ways to help a patient manage pain


16. Leakage when coughing - sneezing - or increased intra - abdominal pressure
Reservoir
Stress Incontinence
Hospice Care
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative bowel elimination needs.


17. Process of emptying the bladder
Ethical dilemma
micturition - urination - or voiding
Patient teaching necessary for post - operative pain control - Management of acute surgical pain.
Challenges to health care access


18. 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
chronic illness
Nursing Consideratins for stoma care
ostomy
What happens during the pre - op phase of surgery


19. Rapid onset - lasts short period of time
Stages of Kubler - Ross's psychosocial responses to grief & loss
Definition of acute illness
'informed consent'
Psychomotor learning


20. Uses reagent substances to detect the enzyme peroxidase in the hemoglobin molecule
Deception
What antiseptic does
Altruism
Fecal Occult Blood Test


21. Regular exercise
What elevates HDL
Overflow Incontinence
Peristomal Skin Care Assessments
Cognitive teaching strategy


22. 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
Purulent wound drainage
What disinfectant does
Urge Incontinence
Portal of Entry


23. 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
Combination Directive
Living Wills
Definition of acute illness
Patient teaching necessary for post - operative pain control - Management of acute surgical pain.


24. Procedure that is preplanned & based on the patient's choice & availability of scheduling for the patient - surgeon - & facility; Non - urgent; does not have to be done immediately
Test used for determng blood in stool
micturition - urination - or voiding
Surgicale Classification - elective
Reconstructive surgery


25. Mixture of serum & red blood cells
Serosanguineous wound drainage
Anticipatory loss
Most effective way to prevent spread of organisms
Reasons a patient not have an appetite.


26. Sense of hopefulness - participation in decisions - expression of feelings & emotions - Not die alone - religious or spiritual needs - honesty

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27. Loss of voluntary control of urination
Incontinence
Hospice Care
Terminal Illness
Fecal Occult Blood Test


28. Specific signs & symptom
Reasons a patient not have an appetite.
Full stage of illness
Perceived loss
Ways to prevent or treat constipation


29. Liquids can have color but must be able to see through (Coffee is ok) - No milk products - Nutritionally inadequate over time - Used as preparation for surgery - diagnostic studies - post - operative advancement - Hydrates - rests GI tract - N
Benefits of exercise as it relates to a patient's ability to heal - rest - etc.
Components of a clear liquid diet
Affective learning
Autonomy


30. Recovery period; returns to a healty state; feeling better
Convalescent period
Human Dimensions of Health
Nonmaleficence
Ways to prevent or treat constipation


31. Provide specific instructions about kinds of healthcare that should be provide or forgone
Definition of acute illness
Challenges to health care access
Stoma Care Cleansing
Living Wills


32. Lecture or discussion - panel discussion - discovery - audiovisual materials - printed materials - programmed instruction - computer - assisted instruction programs
Cognitive teaching strategy
ANA code for nurses - ethical & professional standards for a nurse to follow.
solube fiber
Peristomal Bag or Applicance changes


33. - Allow to verbalize feelings - fears - Do not leave alone - Include family
Maturational loss
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
Post - operative complications Incentive Spirometry
Physical loss


34. Fluid intake - at least 2000 mL daily
Factors affecting a vegan diet
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Advocacy
Nursing role with grief and death


35. Helps increase lung volume & inflation of alveoli which Facilitates venus return; Practice prior to surgery
Post - operative complications Incentive Spirometry
How one provides continuity of care
Cognitive learning
Stages of Kubler - Ross's psychosocial responses to grief & loss


36. Result of unpredictable event (Ex: injury - disaster)
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern
Situational loss
Serosanguineous wound drainage
Paternalism


37. Most significant & most commonly observed infection - causing agents in healthcare institutions
ostomy
Bacteria
micturition - urination - or voiding
Stoma Care Cleansing


38. Bladder - nervous system damage
Anticipatory loss
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern
Altruism
Neurogenic - Altered urine pattern


39. Physical: protect from potential or actual harm Emotional: Free of fear - anxiety Allow independence Explanations

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40. skin should be intact - free of redness - Watch for any irritation - rash - signs of infection - Erosion around stoma can cause stoma to become flat or indented
Post - operative complications Leg exercises
Peristomal Skin Care Assessments
Actual loss
Ethical dilemma


41. Statement of ethical obligations & duties of every person who enters practice of nursing; Non - negotiable ethical standard; Expression of nursing's own understanding of commitment to society
Components of a clear liquid diet
Fecal Occult Blood Test
Nursing Ethics
How a nurse can meet the physical needs of a dying patient


42. Palliative - to relieve or reduce intensity of an illness; is not curative (Ex: colostomy - arthroscopy - balloon angioplasties)
Hesitancy - Altered urine pattern
Catheter Urine Specimen procedure
Post - operative complications Incentive Spirometry
Palliative surgery


43. Reach full potential through development of capabilities - Continues throughout life: Acceptance of self & others as they are -
Surgical Classification - emergent
Catheter Urine Specimen procedure
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self - Actualization
How a nurse supports grieving patient's family


44. Early signs & symptoms are present but are often vague & nonspecific; patient does not realize he is contagious
Functional Incontinence
Prodromal stage (most infectious stage)
Terminal weaning from ventilator
What is length of stay & How do we control it?


45. Medicate for pain - N/V - Rest periods before each meal - Offer mouth care prior to each meal - Be sure dentures are clean & in mouth - Offer foods patient likes & can eat - Cold - soft foods may be better tolerated - Smaller portions - More frequent
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Susceptible Host
How to stimulate a patients appetite
Community Factors Affecting Health


46. Permanent change - cause is irreversible alterations in normal anatomy & physiology - require long period of care
chronic illness
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Love and belonging
'informed consent'
Fungi


47. Sterile technique; practices that render & keep objects & areas free from microorganisms
Surgical asepsis
Patient teaching necessary for post - operative pain control - Management of acute surgical pain.
Nursing Consideratins for stoma care
Full stage of illness


48. Incontinence in child after toilet control expected
Post - operative complications Leg exercises
Reasons a patient not have an appetite.
Enuresis
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs & Meeting Basic Human Needs and how it's used to treat patients.


49. Code of ethics; accountability
Most effective way to prevent spread of organisms
Integrity
Terminal weaning from ventilator
Surgical Classification - emergent


50. 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

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