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Nursing Fundamentals Theory

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1. Only in animal products
How to review - assess and develop a nursing diagnosis based on patients clinical presentation.
'informed consent'
Where dietary intake of cholesterol can be found
Fecal Occult Blood Test

2. Felt by person but intangible to others (Ex: loss of youth - independence)
Ways to prevent food poisoning
Comfort Measures Only
Perceived loss
Prodromal stage (most infectious stage)

3. To make or confirm a diagnosis (Ex: breast biopsy - laparoscopy)
Pallative Care
During Peristomal Bag or Applaince change - opening in karaya
Patient teaching necessary for post - operative pain control - Management of acute surgical pain.
Diagnostic surgery

4. Lifestyle - Psychosocial - Environmental - Developmental - Biologic risks
Risk Factors for AlteresFmily health.
Ethical dilemma
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare
What is length of stay & How do we control it?

5. - Allow to verbalize feelings - fears - Do not leave alone - Include family
Surgical classifications: Urgent
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
Definition of acute illness
Combination Directive

6. 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
Human Dimensions of Health
Nocturia - Altered urine pattern
Patient teaching regarding post operative pain management.
Ablative surgery

7. supports & immobilizes a body part - helps a surgical incision helps with comfort and pain.
Urgency - Altered urine pattern
Stoma Care Cleansing
Stress Incontinence
splinting and its use in the health care setting

8. 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
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
Human Dimensions of Health
Peristomal Bag or Applicance changes
Actual loss

9. Code of ethics; accountability
Peristomal Skin Care Assessments
Timed specimen collections (24- hour specimen)
Integrity
Autonomy

10. 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
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative bowel elimination needs.
Factors affecting UTI's
Bacteria
Community Factors Affecting Health

11. Fluid intake - at least 2000 mL daily
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Susceptible Host
How one provides continuity of care
Factors Affecting Health Status - Beliefs - & Practices

12. 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
Hospice Care
Definition of acute illness
What is length of stay & How do we control it?
Diagnostic surgery

13. Cultural - views on healthcare - Environmental - access to healthcare - Socioeconomic - financial resources - insurance - Physical - mobility
Factors affecting UTI's
Urgency - Altered urine pattern
Timed specimen collections (24- hour specimen)
Challenges to health care access

14. Specific signs & symptom
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Post - operative complications Incentive Spirometry
Full stage of illness
Ways to prevent or treat constipation

15. Should be cut 1/8 inch larger than stoma to protect skin & avoid stoma rub - may use charcoal or other deodorizer in bag to control odor - Bismuth subgallate oral also controls odor
Factors that affect a patients health state
During Peristomal Bag or Applaince change - opening in karaya
Advocacy
Nursing Consideratins for stoma care

16. Respect for inherent worth & uniqueness of the individual; patient privacy & confidentiality
Human dignity
Urge Incontinence
Signs of patient nearing death
Serous wound drainage

17. Nurse knows the right thing to do but factors make it difficult to follow correct course of action.
Ethical distress
What is length of stay & How do we control it?
Nursing Ethics
Challenges to health care access

18. Risk factors for illness - Factors in the human dimensions that influence health - illness status - Beliefs and practice - Basic human needs - Self - concept
Purulent wound drainage
What antiseptic does
Symptoms of UTI
Factors Affecting Health Status - Beliefs - & Practices

19. Incontinence in child after toilet control expected
Terminal Illness
Affective learning
Enuresis
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Physiologic Needs - essential to life

20. 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 food poisoning
Definition of acute illness
Total (reflex) Incontinence
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Love and belonging

21. Leakage when coughing - sneezing - or increased intra - abdominal pressure
Stress Incontinence
Fungi
How a nurse provides psychological support to a dying patient
Ileostomy -

22. Right of self - determination; informed choices for patients - right to choose
Reasons a patient not have an appetite.
'informed consent'
Autonomy
Total (reflex) Incontinence

23. Two or more clear moral principles apply but support mutually inconsistent courses of action
Ethical dilemma
Advocacy
Nursing Ethics
How to prevent 'travelers diarrhea'

24. Composed of white blood cells - liquefied dead tissue debris - & dead & live bacteria
Characteristics of a colostomy
Purulent wound drainage
Post - operative complications Often painful
What is length of stay & How do we control it?

25. Personal habits - Defecate at the same time each day - Privacy & time allotment - Positioning - sitting upright with feet on ground
pre - operative assessments & screenings
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Questions to ask during an abdominal health history
Maslows Hiearchy of Needs - Self Esteem

26. Understanding & Acceptance: Involve family / friends in patient care - Establish trusting relationship - Refer to support groups

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27. Recognized by others as well as patient (Ex: loss of job - spouse)
Peristomal Bag or Applicance changes
Actual loss
Factors Affecting Health Status - Beliefs - & Practices
Peristomal Skin Care Cleansing

28. no harsh or abrasive cleansers - use mild soap & water - dry gently - use skin protectant products to toughen area & protect from irritating stool
Nursing Consideratins for stoma care
Where dietary intake of cholesterol can be found
Test used for determng blood in stool
Peristomal Skin Care Cleansing

29. 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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30. Taking care of the whole person - body - mind - spirit - heart - soul - Provide best quality of life by symptom management
Sanguineous wound drainage
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Love and belonging
Pallative Care
How a nurse can meet the physical needs of a dying patient

31. 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
Factors Affecting Health Status - Beliefs - & Practices
Factors that affect a patients health state
Slow Code
Clean Catch Specimen Collection

32. 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
Reasons a patient not have an appetite.
Postmortem Care
Factors affecting grief and dying
Total (reflex) Incontinence

33. Permanent change - cause is irreversible alterations in normal anatomy & physiology - require long period of care
chronic illness
Bacteria
Urgency - Altered urine pattern
Comfort Measures Only

34. HDL - 'good' type
Signs of patient nearing death
Smoking destroys What type of fat
Living Wills
Post - operative complications Leg exercises

35. ability to break down nitrogen to excrete
Patient teaching necessary for post - operative pain control - Management of acute surgical pain.
Liver disease effects on nutritional status of a patient
Stoma Care Cleansing
DNR and the nurse's duty

36. Interval between pathogen's invasion of the body & the appearance of symptoms; organisms are growing & multiplying
chronic illness
Susceptible Host
Incubation period
Serous wound drainage

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
cleasing enema
Clean Catch Specimen Collection
What antiseptic does

38. Need to void without ability to hold or delay
Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare
Nursing Interventions to promote post - operative bowel elimination needs.
Urgency - Altered urine pattern
Signs of patient nearing death

39. Increase venus return and helps prevent complications of thrombophlebitis & resultant emboli
Post - operative complications Leg exercises
Diagnostic surgery
Portal of Entry
Factors that affect a patients health state

40. To restore function to traumatized or malfunctioning tissue (Ex: plastic surgery - breast reconstruction - skin graft)
Reconstructive surgery
chronic illness
Prodromal stage (most infectious stage)
Post - operative complications Often painful

41. Inability to get to toilet in time or inability to recognize need to urinate
Symptoms of UTI
Functional Incontinence
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Nocturia - Altered urine pattern

42. 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
Patient teaching necessary for post - operative pain control - Management of acute surgical pain.
What disinfectant does
Surgical Classification - emergent
What happens during the pre - op phase of surgery

43. collected during midstream - first small amount of urine voided helps to flush away any organisms near the meatus - urine voided at midstream is most characteristic of urine body is producing - patient voids & discards a small amount of urine; contin
Clean Catch Specimen Collection
Psychomotor learning
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Pre - operative assessment includes

44. Wash gently with gauze or clean cloth & water - Pat dry
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs - Safety and Security
Ways to prevent or treat constipation
Stoma Care Cleansing
Post - operative complications Often painful

45. 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
Peristomal Bag or Applicance changes
Nursing Ethics
Most effective way to prevent spread of organisms
Advocacy

46. Voiding too often but normal total amounts
Factors that affect a patients health state
Dysuria - Altered urine pattern
Dying patient's Bill of Rights
Frequency - Altered urine pattern

47. Process by which healthcare providers give appropriate - uninterrupted care & facilitate the patient's transition between different setting & levels of care - Teaching patient & family - self - care - medications - Involve patient & family in care p
Convalescent period
Catheter Urine Specimen procedure
Terminal Illness
How one provides continuity of care

48. Most significant & most commonly observed infection - causing agents in healthcare institutions
ostomy
Human Dimensions of Health
Factors affecting a vegan diet
Bacteria

49. Result of natural development
Maturational loss
Post - operative complications Incentive Spirometry
Bacteria
Anticipatory loss

50. Bladder - nervous system damage
Human Dimensions of Health
Neurogenic - Altered urine pattern
Psychomotor teaching strategy
Prodromal stage (most infectious stage)